Happy Easter / 10 months

Hope everyone had a nice Easter! Bella had fun finding her Easter basket and a few eggs the Easter bunny hid inside. It had to be inside since we got 15 inches of snow Friday!

We dressed up in our Easter best and put sweaters over. Lucy didn't wear a springy dress, I put her in a long sleeved one so she'd be warmer. We went to church which was crowded, but overall went well. Bella would say a few times, "I don't like the church, church all done". We haven't been for a while since making a baby and 2 yr old sit through an hour service is a struggle most times. My parents came down and my sister Beth and family came over for Easter lunch. It was a nice time although Lucy was not a happy camper with her top teeth coming in!

Speaking of Lucy, she is now 10 months! She is doing so many firsts now. She just started waving bye-bye, signing "more", and is eating more real foods like cereal and cut up fruits/veggies. She has 3 teeth on the bottom, and almost 2 on the top now. She is known for being a great sleeper, so the fact she was up for about an hour Saturday night tells me her mouth was really hurting her. She's doing a bit better today.

We have solid walls in the basement now! The drywall will be finished this week and then we'll continue on with putting in the ceiling, lights, and floors. I'll have to post some pictures soon.

Happy St. Pat's!

Bella and Lucy have a great daycare! First, they have a party at the end of the week when any normal people would be sick of chasing after babies/toddlers all week. Then they do all of the things that you'd never do in your own house. Like the pool full of green spaghetti! It was so funny, but Lucy balanced on her butt the whole time so her legs wouldn't touch the spaghetti.

Bella got to play with a green water and dried peas table. They also had a big blow-up slide with a ball pit at the end. They had lots of fun! Anyway, it is so nice that Bella & Lucy have a place to go and do the things that I'm not always so good at doing at home!

I just thought this was funny. Bella and Lucy sat here reading books for a while. The fact that they were so quiet and happy for a chunk of time was unusual! Usually I will hear Lucy scream from Bella taking away something or hurting her. I guess that's a sign of good things to come - playing together without Mommy!

This week drywallers will start on our basement! I'm so excited to finish that off and move the toys down there!

Waterpark birthday

Well, today is my birthday and what do I get? A trip to a waterpark. I really planned the trip for the kids, but I had fun too. We stayed overnight last night at the Country Springs Hotel, about 10 minutes from our house. I think Lucy had more fun than Bella! Bella is just so timid with new situations that she couldn't get into all the water spraying stuff. She loved watching all the kids though.

We had an extra pass to the waterpark area so my niece Abby came on Sunday for a few hours. She really helped out a lot and we all got to take turns going down the big slides without the kids :) My friend from work and her daughter came and used our extra pass on Monday. Bella was a little worn out by then and really hardly played in the water at all.

Now its back to our wintry reality. It was a nice break though and I'm sure these events will get more fun as the kids get older. (try entertaining a 9-month old and 2.5 yr old for 3 hrs in the morning in a hotel room, waiting for the waterpark to open!)

I hear warmer weather is on its way, so hopefully our days playing peek-a-boo in the huge tunnel (that takes up our whole living room) are limited! That cute little sweater Lucy is wearing is from my sister, Meg. She gave us 2 huge garbage bags full of hand me downs last week. Thanks to her and a growing Mia, we are set for clothes for a while!

And a weird coincidence occurred on our way home from the waterpark today. We stopped at the Steak-n-Shake in Waukesha and ended up being served by this man. A clown (but not dressed as a clown) with pending criminal charges including child pornography. We had no idea at the time. It was strange, but after we got home, Carlo was listening to the radio, and they were talking about this guy and the controversy of letting him work. They mentioned the Steak-n-Shake so we looked him up. I was very shocked!

Carnival!

We started the weekend by upgrading Bella's car seat so Lucy could move into Bella's. I was getting so tired of lugging Lucy in the carrier type car seat even though she could have lasted a few more months in it. The seats in our van look strange with 2 huge car seats hogging them! We also stopped at Target to get a few things. Remember when Bella swiped a candy bar from the grocery store a while back? This time she got away with 3 bottles of drain cleaner! Carlo had his coat stuffed under the cart, and apparently when I had my back turned choosing some cleaners, Bella arranged the Drano bottles under the cart. Little stinker. We didn't see because Carlo's coat was blocking them. We paid for our stuff and walked out the door with them still under the cart! When we realized we promptly returned the cart to the store. I'm not sure what she was thinking with that one!

On Sunday we went to the Menomonee Falls High School Kids' Carnival. Abby and Beth were there 'on duty', but took time to play with us too. It was a great thing to do with Bella. We paid $5 for tickets and she played a bunch of games and got a ton of great prizes. I felt a little guilty leaving with as much as we did!

Abby helping Bella with the Cake Walk game...

She won that game and got to pick a cake to take home (I know...what a cool prize!):

Here she is with her other winnings (I'm not sure why she picked the scary looking gorilla):