The Easter Dresses

For Christmas Rodney gave me a pleater. So Brook and I started on our journey of making the girls Easter dresses from start to finish. After several months, lots of frustrations, and lots of learning they are finished!

The Easter Party at Park Place

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Easter

Easter morning we woke to eggs filled with candy, a new toothbrush, a bunny in a car that says "Happy Easter", and a rolling play toy for Maggie. This was really fun but most importantly we got to celebrate the Ressurection of our Savior. The night before we made cookies that explained the Easterd story. We beat the nuts with a spoon just as Jesus was beaten. We added vinegar because this was given to Jesus to drink on the cross. We added some other ingrediants and put them in the oven and shut the door until Easter morning just as Jesus was put in the tomb. We opened the oven door to find our cookies that were hollow inside that represented that the tomb was hollow-EMPTY because He is alive and no longer in the tomb!!

Easter at Mimi's house

The week before Easter the girls and I headed to Mimi's house for some Easter Fun. Mimi went all out and bought candy baskets for the girls and dye for the eggs. Claire had so much fun with the dye but I think if my OCD had not kicked in then Claire could have really gotten her hands dirty or should I say stained. Maggie just sat and watched Mickey Mouse with cookie in hand of course and had a ball. Thank you Mimi for making Easter at Mimi's house so much fun!!

The girls

Things have been a bit busy in our world but that has not stopped Maggie and Claire from growing and learning knew things. Maggie will be 9 months old on the 28. I cannot believe it. She really hates being on her belly but in order for her to start being mobile this is just something we have to do. Up until now I have not encourged the crawling or the walking. Claire started crawling at 6 months and started walking at 9 months so we missed out on the sit in the floor and play with toys phase. Maggie is now getting really bored with this so crawling here we come. The times that she is on her belly she scoots herself backwards. Her pudgy little tummy and legs hinder her from moving forward but we are doing baby excersises so she will be crawling in no time. I also realized how much maggie is costing us in baby food so we have introduced solids. I could make one jar of baby food last like three days with Claire but Maggie could eat two jars three times a day and that really adds up! We are waiting on the 2nd tooth to pop through. There have been some tough days but she seems to be doing better with this one than with the first one. She has also started saying words. Baby, dada, bye-bye, mama. These are four she can say really well. This morning I asked her where's dada and she looked over at Rodney and smiled. That made up for last night when I handed her to Rodney and she started crying. Alright Maggs, two more months and we have to call it... :)

My Claire-bear is getting so big. She is coming up on four now. She knows her letters and numbers and has started writting. It has been really neat teaching her all of these things. She catches on really fast. Claire loves to play with Maggie and I realize when Claire is not around how much she helps me take care of her.

I thank God that He gave you girls to Rodney and I. We love you!

The first tooth..

Well, its official- the first tooth finally came through on April 3. Maggie actually slept from 7pm to 7am solid. I was the happiest mama ever!! Claire did not have this much trouble with her teeth. I could always tell when she was about to get one because of her diapers (i will spare the details..). She might have been a little fussy but honestly I think she was too busy with other things to be upset about her teeth. Maggie is a bit different. She must sit around all day and think about her teeth.... how much they hurt and see how miserable she can make all of us because she is in pain. I do have to give a shout out to mickey mouse clubhouse that has gotten us through some incredibly whiney moments (for both me and Maggie). I will also have to say Praise the Lord for the makers of motrin and tylenol!! So yah for the first tooth!! I do remember the words coming out of my mouth... when she starts getting teeth then there goes the nursing for sure.. yeah right!