for the girls

Philly prayers

In YM/YW the other day, one of the young men was wrangled into saying the prayer. It went a little something like this:

"Yo, check this out. Dear God...."

Easter (totally late, I know)

For Easter this year, we started the festivities with a few visits from the Easter Bunny to the YMCA. Lil absolutely LOVED the Easter Bunny. She sat on "her" lap for hours, bouncing up and down.

Then we had an Easter egg hunt at the park with our friends on Saturday. It was cold and drizzly again this year, but we got a lot of loot anyway.

Then the Easter bunny brought lots of presents instead of Easter baskets, and also hid eggs all over the house. That tricky bunny even hid them on top of the pictures hanging on the wall (Xander thought this was soooo funny). Grandma also sent a bunch of presents that were set out as well. Xander asked for days after who got him which toy... the Easter bunny or Grandma?

Then we got all dolled up and went to church. Lil wore her new Easter dress and her red patent leather shoes, and Mommy wore the shirt that Aunt Jane so sneakily bought for her.

After church we went to our friends house and had a delicious Easter dinner with all of the families in our date night babysitting group. It was delicious!

Even though Lil looked so cute in her dress, she had a goopy eye all day. We thought it was a clogged tear duct, like she had when she was a baby. But then it got more and more puffy and red. By the next day she looked like this. Poor baby!

"Follow the Prophet"

Xander has learned a new song. Well, one line of it.

The Wave

Lil is practicing for "the Crown". I'm not sure if she wants to be Miss America or the Queen, but she's got the wave down perfect. She waves hello and goodbye to everyone. She waves at inanimate objects. She even reaches out behind her when I am rocking her to sleep and waves at whatever is back there. Sometimes it is a little creepy when it looks like she is waving at someone, and there is no one there. Here is a little sample, waving to Daddy:

**sorry for the lovely side view of mommy