Easter Hand... errrh...I mean...Easter Egg Coloring!

Nothing like a little dye to get you in the Easter spirit.
Nobody was short-changed this year, full dipping rights for all!
And bragging rights during Nursery too!

Our Favorite New Jersey-ians!

We had the BEST EASTER treat! Our favorite New-Jersey-ians came to town and stayed with us!
It has been far too long!
We had lots of fun catching up.
And we even successfully found a place we could play in peace together!

Our Last Supper

Okay, it has been a full week and a half since they left... and I am still too heart broken to even talk about it. I was planning on writing a gut wrenching post about how our New England cousins are our life line, how our family has grown up with theirs, and how bleak our future here is without them but my feelings are still way too tender. ...and it is embarrassing to cry on commuter rail.

I had no idea when those two wild and crazy kids, Andie and HH, decided to re-locate to Rhode Island that they would become the most important family in our lives. But back then, outside the big people, there was just one little person...

Now we have filled the room with some pretty crazy characters!
We love them all!
We all lined up for our, "See you in June!" squeezes...
...even little squeezes...
I'm telling you, I will always love New England, but they took the best part with them.

Tad's Worlds

This kid EATS, DRINKS and SLEEPS Angry Birds.
I see a bright future for this kid as an architect (with plenty of formative year experience constructing pig towers) and/or Ornithologist.
But then again, maybe he will just go into slaughtering pigs.
The plus side for me is that I FINALLY have someone to chat with about birds.

Another Chapter in, "The Worst Parents EVER"

Poor kid never gets lovingly tucked in for a nap and has to crash on the couch all,
"Diddle diddle dumpling"
That's if he's lucky, sometimes he crash lands on the marble floor as the
"Beauty School Dropout"
Or precipitously perches on the kitchen bar for La-Countertop-Siesta...

Heart Throb

I'm sweet on this kid.
He is one smooth talker. He tells me that, "I am always in his heart", that when I am at work he is always thinking about me, he asks me if I will be there when he wakes up. He tells me he is always happy when I am home. He calls me at work to tell me that he loves me and asks me to be his "partner" (Toad terminology for best friend). He used to ask me over and over if I will be his wife. But after I explained that he is my boy and is mine forever he takes my cheeks, looks me in the eye and says, "remember, we're sealed together forever!"
I'm not getting out of this, and I wouldn't want to!

Serving Up Hot Cinnamon Rolls...

...for Conference Sunday!
Superkid took his consumption seriously. He pounded them hard and fast, leaving me quaking at the prospect of one day having to make 6 dozen rolls for my 3 ravenous teenage boys.

That being said, we all lined up for seconds...
and sucked down every last sticky finger!