More Pictures from Easter Weekend

Coloring cousins (no the Pepsi was not Jenna's!):

 Waiting for the games to begin!

 Faith helped Jenna find eggs

 Easter dress

 Pit stop to ride the toy on Great Grandma and Papa's back porch

 Great Papa took Jenna to meet the neighbor's cows when we got to their house. So while we were hunting eggs, she wanted to show me. At first Jenna kept telling me that this was the mommy cow, but she later decided that perhaps it was the Daddy. :)

 DJ and Jenna sharing a toy. They did a great job working together, but wouldn't let me take their picture from the front. This shot is pretty cute though!

On Friday we had an egg hunt with Jalen. Jalen knew just what to do and found a bunch of eggs quickly while Jenna watched. Then he dumped his eggs out and ran to his slide. Then Jenna noticed that an egg had candy in it and she ran to find more!

 Enjoying the candy!

Happy Easter

The Easter Bunny was good to Jenna this year.  Here is a picture of her basket full of goodies!



Checking out the goodies:

Finding eggs:

The other goodie that the Easter Bunny left on Jenna's swing set! Excuse the crazy bangs. She was too excited to see what the Easter Bunny left to get her hair done and the hat quickly came off when she discovered the new toy!

Showing off her goodies:

Chatting with Jalen about what the Easter Bunny brought them:

I'm a Barbie Girl!

What a beautiful day today! Jenna asked me, 'Is it summertime, Mommy?' I had to tell her no, but that it felt warm enough that we could do anything that we would do in the summer. She was thrilled, but couldn't think of anything in particular that she wanted to do that we haven't already been doing for the past few weeks.

A few fun things from our week:

Jenna has started drawing family portraits. She paints, then points out Daddy, Mommy, Portia, and herself.

This week Jenna started telling me that, 'Nana wants me to have that', when I would tell her no. I used to call her The Negotiator, but might have to start calling her The Manipulator! Nana told me that she was probably right. Argh, grandparents! ;)

She also decided that she wants us to leave her door open during nap time. Never in a million years did I think she would go to sleep, but I was willing to give it a try. Success! So I guess as long as she keeps napping, we can leave it open if she wants.

We have also been trying to do a few projects each week. Fun for her and a teachable moment for me. First project was that I cut a three different shapes out of construction paper and let her glue them onto a paper that was divided into three sections (one for each shape). She did great sorting and gluing. Also fun was trying to pull off each shape after they were glued.

The next project was unentended. I bought a new dresser to put in our hallway and started putting it together during naptime. Unfortunately naptime only lasted about 30 minutes, so I had a little helper. It took about twice as long to put together than it probably would have taken without help, but we talked about all of the different pieces and she helped me find the parts I needed, so in the end it was worth the extra time

A not so fun thing from our week:

Our house got damaged in the hailstorm last weekend. I have never seen so much hail fall for so long! Our house shook and shook and shook. We even had pictures fall off the wall! We are waiting for the insurance adjsustor to visit, but so far we have been told that we will need to replace all of the windows on the back of our house and get a new roof and gutters. I have a feeling that the list will be much longer once the adjustor gets by, but the great news is that no one was hurt.

Budding Artist...with bedhead

Jenna had fun painting on her easel this morning. She said that this particular piece of art is a butterfly.

The cupcake dance

Jenna's Grandma Janice (Sheramie's mom) gave Jenna a cupcake in an ice cream cone today when we had dinner with her (to celebrate Uncle BJ's 18th birthday!). She doesn't get sweets often and actually doesn't ask for them all that often either, but the one exception is cupcakes (she doesn't get them often, but does ask for them often). So she was in heaven when she got it. We had to go home after she'd only eaten a small bit, so I told her she could play in the backyard and eat it when we got home. When we made it home I teased her and told her that she had to do a cupcake dance to get it and I was able to catch it on camera...

A Little Late

Wasn't Jenna's St Patrick's Day outfit cute (it says Mom's Lucky Charm)? When Jenna woke up that morning we talked about wearing green. I started to tell her about how you pinch people that aren't wearing green, but then suddenly thought about what I was telling a TWO year old that has recently started pinching! Argh! So, I quickly showed her how we pinch without it hurting and that it is only ok that day. I let her practice "pinching" me and it didn't hurt, so hopefully all was good and she didn't go to school that Friday and pinch her classmates. 

P.S. I thought that this post was added a week after St Paddy's Day, but it never did. So, it is extra late! I thought everyone would still enjoy though.

Giddy Up!

Jenna had fun riding the pony today when we went to the store! Happy Thursday everyone!