Easter in Sea Island

we took our first family trip of four to Sea Island for Easter!! it was a successful car ride down but quite long & a little rough on the way home. between bathroom breaks, meals, gas & feeding a baby it can extend your car ride for an extra hour and a half! it was a great 5 days hanging out with the bebe & papa & the california cousins in their new house (which is beautiful and perfect to the T!) we are looking forward to heading back down this summer for a whole week.

will, lilly & hen before dinner at the Lodge

 

celebrating Papa's birthday

the easter bunny knew where to find us! i think henry was more excited about fran's basket with her first barbie & pinkalicious book.  we had to sit down immediately & read it.....and he knew almost all the words thanks to the girls in his class.

waiting for the egg hunt to begin.  lesson for parents.....don't hype up the golden egg.....we ended with a total meltdown and only a few eggs in the basket (see below). 

we worked on our soccer skills

and we worked on our tummy time with our cute smile!

thanks kelly & john for giving us another fabulous weekend with you all.  we are counting down the days till the summer!!!!

Dinner with Sam and Honey

A great pic with Sam and Dad/Uncle Wood- post win at Father/Son Tourney at CCC.

Lucy explaining to Hen that "if you touch this golf club it will break, ok buddy, so let's not touch that." ooops- broke on way home. easily fixed.

Cookies!!

Such a beautiful weekend- Lucy and I spent Sunday enjoying the warm sunshine and some good ole' sprinkler fun....Hen came over too- but prefers a squirt bottle. We are loving the sunny days, spring blooms and weekends with few plans so we can just hang and enjoy our blessings!!

We have been playing a game that Lucy named "Baby or Lucy". Basically I come up with scenarios that she has to decide which child would be better for me to tend to first. Example, Lucy wants me to come sit while she gets dressed (perfectly fine job for her solo) and the baby is crying because he/she needs a diaper change. She reasons out who should get the attention.

It is entertaining and hopefully will get her thinking about the fact that things will certainly change in less than three months!! We are in the home stretch!

Birthday Beauty...

All smiles on the Birthday girl!!

Good friend Miss Redding at the party... Where you end up in tornado with 12 small people at birthday party!

Singing to the special girl on her almost big day...

loot set up on Birthday morn.

Yummy birthday breakfast

Bedhead- love that look after just waking up...

CeCe and PopPop came to deliver a new bike!

All smiles on Birthday girl!!

big F.I.V.E!!!

Lucy turned five today and I cannot even believe it- our little girl has grown up so fast and is becoming such a sweet, caring young lady. Stephen and I have chatted every night during some "pillow talk" about how big she has gotten (tall) and mature, observant, conscientous, and just older. We had some kids over for a birthday party Saturday- played Hot Potato, Pin the Tail on the Donkey and had a pinata. Mother Nature brought a storm that matched Dorothy's entrance to Oz but we made due. Pics to follow

Steps in the Right Direction- Kindergarten Fun!!

Not even sure the last time I posted- embarassed and sad but just need to move past it and start back fresh...seems like the perfect spring day- love the newness of spring and the weather has inspired me to get back on track!!

Lucy and Stephen went to the Cotswold Elementary Father/Daughter Dance last Friday night. The school included incoming kindergarteners and Lucy loved her big date with Dad!!

They went to dinner with some other dads and daughters (I don't think Lucy touched her food) and headed to the dance....

month THREE



she was not having it!! so we decided to wait a few minutes and try again

Hen struck a pose for me during the calm down process..... 



...and we tried again but still no luck! oh well- gotta have a funny one!

(i wanted to get these photos up sooner since she hit the three month mark two weekends ago but the computer has been down so we are just a little late in posting!)

miss priss is loving her tummy time though & staring at her cute face in the mirror

 Big brother decides that he wants in on the photo session

she has finally started to learn to like the swing! yay! cooking dinner has gotten much easier!

 we headed to the kindermourn duck race at the white water center- what a cool event! henry loved watching all the ducks come down the rapids & was even lucky enough to catch one!

hen and daddy

this was her position most of the afternoon- just enjoyin the sunshine & spring weather

Hope everyone is well! xxoo