Easter celebrations- June

On Saturday morning, mama and Miss Becky locked Audrey, the dogs and I in the toy room and colored eggs with the big kids. I was not pleased.

Henry had a good time dyeing his egg and had some very pretty ones until he started redipping his eggs in all the different colors.

Both he and Grace were very patient about sharing the colors and had fun using the little wire egg lifters.

There were a couple reprimands of "Don't put your fingers in the cup," but Henry came out fairly dye free.

We liked the blue and green eggs the best.

We had the extreme good fortune of being invited to the neighborhood easter egg hunt.

Here are the rules: if you want to hunt, fill your yard with eggs and the neighborhood kids would travel around the neighborhood and have a separate hunt at every house.

Things got better when we realized 10 kids showed up for the hunt and at least 15 yards were full of eggs.

Things got really great when the organizer didn't want the little kids (4and under) trampled by the big kids. So most of the time, we got a yard entirely to ourselves.

And our heads almost exploded when we opened the eggs and found out that all the childless couples had filled their eggs with at least 3 pieces of candy each. And not just jelly beans. We're talking good stuff like peanut butter cups, nerds, and M&Ms.

Someone caught a butterfly and mama had a tiny panic attack. Papa took this picture. mama wouldn't dream of getting close to it, even if I love butterflies.

Some older girls came along to help the little kids with the hunt. We had fun looking for eggs together.

I didn't get as many eggs as Henry because I insisted on opening every egg I found. But no one cared because i would run around the yards yelling "Eeg! Eeg! Eeeg!" until someone pointed one out for me.

Afterwards, I was very tired and needed carried back tot he house.

We got home and counted out loot. Mama said we could each have 3 eggs after supper, not knowing that equaled over 10 pieces of candy. We were all so loud, the grown-ups were happy to let us have a little computer time.

Thanks for having us up for the weekend, Audrey and Grace!

Back to NC- Henry.

Spring Break (which means no break from me) and the looming wild onions in the yard begging to be mowed proved to be too much for mama and papa. We had to get out of town- fast. Luckily, our North Carolina friends were up for a loud weekend of 4 kids/

It's been really hot down here. It's been above 80 degrees every day since last Thursday, so mama broke out all of the summer clothes and has been having fun showing off Junie's long, skinny legs.

We drove up to the Triad on Thursday night. June and i were so excited, we barely got any sleep in the car, even though we didn't get there until 10:30. I slept about 45 minutes. June didn't sleep at all. You'd figure that we'd be tired, but we only slept in until about 8am.

It was so fun having Audrey and June together. They are both getting tall and starting to talk.

We spent all morning outside enjoying the warm weather. Mama was happy to be within 40 minutes of a mall and took off with Miss Becky to get some shopping done, though she decided she doesn't miss the traffic of living in a city. Why is Hanes Mall Boulevard always packed?

Grace and I were happy to be together again. At the end of last summer, we were both very good at pushing each other's buttons. Though we're still both loud and high energy, we did get along most of the weekend.

June and Audrey got along well too. We were outside all morning until the grown-ups said everyone needed a nap. After a quiet afternoon (mama went out shopping again), papa offered to take Grace, June and I to the castle park. The rest of the adults eagerly accepted his proposal. Mama thinks she got the better deal staying at home with 2 adults and only one toddler.

She forgot how fun it is to only have one kid around. Audrey spent the entire time playing in the water fountain. It started with a sip.

And soon turned into full immersion.

Then she ran straight for a pile of dirt. If filth is a good measure of fun, it was a great day. Audrey had at least 4 outfit changes and June and I left a ring in the bathtub.