Warm weather, Easter and Abby's 8th

I'm getting a little behind, but hopefully I'll be doing better because we used some of the tax rebate for a laptop, so I won't be cranking this out on an ancient (I hate that tech stuff gets ancient in a few years.  Our computer is about 7 or 8 years old, so it's VERY ancient) computer.  The laptop is much faster which is good because this is a picture heavy post.  What can I say, my kids are cute!

With the warm weather, the kids have been out a lot, and were glad when we got some more chalk.  They filled the driveway with pictures and came inside looking like they had been at the Color  Festival.  I'm not sure what rolling around in their chalk pictures does for the composition, but apparently it was necessary.  So was changing in the laundry room and baths immediately after.

 Our school has a tradition for Easter, the Kindergarten Egg Drop. Basically, each kindergartener takes a hard boiled egg, wraps it in something and the custodian throws it from the roof of the school! It's actually really fun and Felicity and Caleb both enjoyed using their imaginations to protect their eggs (Felicity: used her bike helmet, egg cracked. Caleb: put eggs in egg carton, put in shoe box with packing peanuts, duct taped it closed, all 4 eggs safe!). Joseph originally wanted to use balloons, think: the Up House, but we never got into the store...so we moved on to using LOTS of toilet paper duct taped around the egg and then put it in a box that was duct taped shut. Yes, we like duct tape. But as you can see from the picture (sad face) to no avail, his egg cracked. He still had a lot of fun.

BYU had its first Cosmo's Easter Egg Hunt this year in the stadium.  Thousands of kids, more than enough candy and prizes for everyone and a wonderfully warm day.  We had so much fun.  The kids love Cosmo the Cougar already, and now I think he's one of  their favorite people.  Errr, or something.

Victorious after the hunt.

There were several of these football pad-ish things (I have no idea what they are called) set up like little tents all over the field.  Seth, who had stopped at the first pile of candy he found and happily ignored any other prizes around him, climbed inside one to enjoy his booty.  He was nice enough to share a twix with me.  Good kid.

With the BYU hunt on Saturday, and then regular Sunday stuff on Easter (they went through their baskets Sunday morning), we ended up having our family egg hunt on Monday for FHE.  We assigned each kid a color to find, hid ten of each and then Farris deviously hid them.  Can you see the green egg he hid for Caleb in the picture below? 

 

Abigail turned eight months on the 11th of April. Such a sweet little thing!  As I'm typing this she's giggling hysterically at Joseph, she loves her brothers and sister a lot.  She sits up very well by herself and rolls and scoots herself around enough that she can get to basically anywhere she wants. She does get so very mad when she gets stuck somewhere, under a bed, between the paino legs or just in a corner.  She's so close to crawling, just not quite there yet.  Once she gets that down, she'll be everywhere! Still no teeth, but Felicity says that she can bite pretty hard anyway.  She still growls a lot and recently entertained the entire Relief Society with her comments.   We love her big grins and chubby cheeks and can't believe that she's already 8 months old--even though it feels like she's been in our family forever!