Eggs

We met at Joni's house for Easter egg dying. Last year I only gave the girls 1 dozen eggs to decorate and they were done in no time flat and wanted to do more. So this year they got 2 1/2 dozen eggs! It seems like a lot but it was just right. They worked very hard to make them beautiful. They tried different ways to dunk them and hold them and give them more than one color. After they were all done they ran upstairs to start playing with their eggs. They were sorting and pretending big stories with their eggs. Then it happened. Grace came down the stairs and lost control of her basket. Her eggs went rolling down half of the staircase. Even though the stairs are carpeted, they were pretty much crunched completely. She cried so hard. I told her I would buy more eggs and we could do more. She didn't want to though. She cried for quite a while but when she was done she never said anything else about them. I was surprised. They didn't really play with them anymore though.

Chef's Academy

One of the little girls moms from Lyla's preschool class planned a cooking class at Chef's Academy for some girls in her class and at their church. The girls were taught how to make pizza dough from scratch. They each got to help measure the ingredients. Then they were each given a piece of the dough to kneed and shape for their own personal pizza. While the pizza was cooking they had activities for them like learning to set a table and measuring. It was very cute. The girls enjoyed it. All of the moms wanted a pizza of their own too. The girls didn't really share!

This is Lyla and me at Target after the cooking lesson. Lyla took the picture of me. She likes to use my big camera.

Exploring

The girls love to go exploring with Eric. One Sunday afternoon this month I went with them and took lots of pictures. I love the fact that the girls enjoy being outside so much. I wish I were more like them. I'm just not an outdoorsy type of girl. I wish I were. I've tried but it's just not what I prefer to do. But so far, the girls do, and that makes me happy. I hope they keep that as they get older. Anyway, on to the pictures. Here is Lyla waiting for us to leave. The girls got camo hats to were like Dad. We went to a new horse park in Franklin that has no horses or anything park-like. Basically, the only thing there was this big dirt hill, which was a HUGE hit with the girls. Here they are darting for the mud. By the way, it had been raining a lot. This dirt was squishy, wet mud.

Here the girls are looking for four leaf clovers with Eric.

Posing for the camera...they're always so silly!

Cute pics of Daddy and his outdoor girls.

Grace and Lyla are darting for the dirt hill again in the next few pictures. I put all of these because it shows some sisterly patience. In the first picture Grace is running way out in front of Lyla. Lyla is a fast runner! But, Grace has such loooooong legs that even Lyla can't keep up. Of course, Lyla is yelling "GRACE!!!!!" this whole time.

So, finally, Grace slows down to see what Lyla wants.

Then she comes to a full stop and waits for Lyla to catch up.

And here they are back on top of the hill. You can't tell how big the hill is in the picture but it is very, very big.

They really enjoyed running/sliding/tumbling down the hill. They always think it's hilarous to see how dirty they can get.

Here is Lyla's turn "running" down the hill. Her run turned into a tumble.

She did a complete roll over. But, as you can tell from this picture, she's not phased a bit.

Posing for Mom

Another pose with "bunny ears".

Grace's pose

Grace sliding down the hill.

She thinks it's so funny!
And....the proof. What a cute little dirty bottom.