Calvins Haircut

Calvin got a haircut last week and I forgot to post the pictures. He had a good time with his "cape" since he loves superheroes and was in a spinning chair it became a challenge to keep him still.

Cama Beach

We headed up to Cama Beach for part of Spring Break this week. Damien had a night of peace and quiet before I took the kids up on Tuesday and I have a night to myself at home tonight until he brings the kids back tomorrow. Cama beach is always nice because the cabins provide nice shelter and even have a bathroom. The kids have enjoyed flying kites, looking for shells and crabs in the beach and drawing in the cabin. The weather hasn't been too cold and the rain has managed to stay away while the kids have been there.

Sand and Sticks

It has been a really great winter, lots of sun and not too much cold. This morning we went to the beach for 3 hours so the kids could run around and play. Damien is out of town on a dirt bike ride and the kids have been bouncing off the wall a bit. The beach is one place where they never seem to get bored and play nicely together building sand castles or digging holes. Lots of people smile at Addie since she wears her princess dress to the beach and is rolling around in the sand in it. Calvin follows her as they play that they are hiding from pirates or that they are giants slamming their feet in the sandcastles beneath them. 

This is how he came down today

Addie put a band aid on Calvins mouth.....and he seems fine with it. I'm debating if I should be worried.

Easter weekend 2015

We seem to have some Easter traditions now in place with the kids. We go to Hiawatha egg hunt on Saturday at the community center (also where they go to preschool) and then have their friends over for egg dying in the afternoon. Calvin was traumatized at the egg hunt and I had to carry him for the 15 minutes we were waiting for the egg hunt to begin and then ended up dragging a crying child through the field do that I could get him at least a few eggs thinking that he may be even more upset when he snapped out of it and had no eggs to show for it. Luckily there were a few other parents dragging their crying kids along as well, a right of passage I guess. After the gg hunt was done he was fine and even wanted to go say hi to the Easter bunny with Addie. That afternoon we had 6 kids in total at the house, each year they need less and less supervision and can spend more time on crafts so dying the eggs took about 40 minutes and then they proceeded to play tag, go to the park, tear apart the kids room and play some video games. 

Easter Sunday Calvin was the most excited for everything. He had been wanting Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman since we got Batman and Joker from our local toy store last week. There were several tears since he didn't quite trust the Easter bunny would bring them this week, but he was quite happy to find them in his basket this morning. Addie got some new skirts and arts and crafts, clothes seem to be something that she loves to get now (maxi skirts are a favorite). After grandmama and granddad came up for breakfast we went to the beach to continue our tradition of launching the Easter eggs into the sound with a water balloon launcher. Addie enjoys flinging her eggs but Calvin preferred to toss his into the water himself so the crabs could eat them.