March

Chico has been drawing and coloring up a storm this last month. If he's not playing with toys or digging in the dirt he's got a pencil in his hand. Even when he's watching a show, he'll often sit and draw while he watches.  I have been amazed by the things he is able to draw. A few months ago all he would draw were cells and bacteria and stuff like that (yeah, you can tell who he idolizes and wants to be like when he grows up, anything daddy likes is the coolest thing ever) but now he has also ventured out into people and robots. He has discovered he likes coloring books too, especially if he has some nice colored pencils. He has always loved art, like he'll ask to paint every once in a while, but this is seriously all the time now.  And he has a new desire to write too, he's often writing random letters down and asking me what they spell.  He can even write his own name without tracing it or copying it.  He likes to write it all the time!  I'm glad he has caught this desire it will be a good thing to help him when he starts Kindergarten in the fall!

"Look what I can do!"

Griz is the best flopper I have ever seen. He "dies" very dramatically and will ham it up for as long as possible.

The boys saw a show on Disney channel upstairs and when it was done, Chico came running downstairs bound and determined to make some walkie talkies and spy goggles.  So I cut out these goggles which they loved, Chico made the walkie talkies and they had some fun with it for a little bit.

After a long day playing I turned on a show for them and before I knew it Griz was gone. I love how he looks when he sleeps.

And while I had the camera out I had to get on of Chico too!

Well we did it. We decorated Easter Eggs. It's something I haven't braved by myself before but this year I felt like it was something the boys would really enjoy so we did it! Griz cruised through the eggs, throwing as many into the dye as fast as he could.

Chico spent time decorating each egg with crayons and then putting them in carefully.  Last time we did eggs was when he was Griz's age and he did it just like Griz did, breaking lots of eggs. :) This time he just seemed so old and capable, it was cool.

If you look closely you can see a reflection of metal on Griz's head in the picture below. That reflection is of one of the two staples he got put in his head that day when he walked right into the path of a moving metal teeter totter.  He was playing at a friend's house so I didn't see it happen but they said he had blood all over his face. (on Easter Sunday Chico saw a movie with Jesus Christ getting crucified and the blood all over his face from the thorns and he said, "That's what Grizwald's face looked like.")  Breaks my heart. Griz was pretty tough about it though. They had the blood all cleaned up by the time I got there and we decided that though it was small it was still deep enough to warrant a doctors visit.  Sure enough, they stapled it together and sent us on our way. He's pretty careful about his "oww" and is a good sport about letting people look at it when I'm telling them about it.

Oh, and see how this picture above shows my new frame arrangement on the wall.  They are all old frames I found in my grandparent's shed which my grandma was kind enough to let me keep. I started with just the big frame, I asked Brent when he was on his way to Home Depot to get me some spray paint for it.  He asked what color and I told him that I wanted him to choose and wouldn't tell him a color.  He came back with JUST the color I would have chosen and he said that's why he chose it, because he knew I'd like it.  Isn't that so sweet!?  Then a few months later I got around to getting some more spray paint and spraying the 8x10ish frames.  Don't ask me how I'm going to arrange it once we have three kids, cuz I haven't decided yet. :)

ANYWAY, after both of those tangents, let's get back to Easter...

The next morning the kids woke up got to search for Easter eggs, the eggs in the house were filled with jelly beans which they were totally excited to find!

(don't you love the bed-head? lol)

Griz didn't look as hard for eggs because he was too busy eating the jelly beans of the eggs he had already found!

Then we went outside because the eggs they decorated were hidden out there...

Griz got a big kick out of how the eggs were hidden in the rock wall. (and we got a big kick out of how long it took for them to notice the eggs!)

He also discovered that you can fit the boiled eggs in the fake eggs.

I'm glad Brent could be home for them searching for the eggs. It was so much fun for us to see how long it took for them to find eggs in obvious places.  We thought we were hiding them too easily but it took them a long time to find the 20 eggs and they often needed some pointing in the right direction.

Griz just started this new thing where he strikes this pose (see above) and says "bummmm!!!" They think it's the funniest thing ever. He really is a crack up, he loves being funny and he's good at it too!