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Look what I found after I was done cooking breakfast one morning. :)

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

Last night Jenna helped us look at plants for our garden. We haven't bought any yet, but are excited to plant our first official garden this year!

Puddles

Today was a good day to put on the rain boots and take a walk. Jenna loved being able to jump in the puddles!

Yoga

I thought that it might be fun to start introducing Jenna to different types of workouts. Not that a two year old needs to work-out, but I think that it is a good influence for her to see me work out and up till now I've always tried to sneak in my work outs during her naps or after she's in bed.

So, yesterday I decided to put in a workout video and see if she wanted to join me. I knew I wouldn't get to work out long with Little Miss tagging along, so I decided to go with yoga since it would be easy to quit in the middle. She sat down right by me and put on her game face. It was so cute! Then, when the first pose started, she mimicked perfectly and started giggling...it turned into a bug huge belly laugh. It was awesome. Every time they changed poses she would start laughing again. She only made it about 5minutes, but it was by far the most fun yoga session I've ever had!

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.