Easter fun

We had a fun Easter weekend. It started on Friday with an Easter themed birthday party.

hunting eggs at the park

bunny hop race wearing bunny hats (well, Kaylin isn't wearing hers)

Then we got an Easter package in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa B. They always send the girls the best packages for holidays and Kaylin is so excited to check the mail to see if it's here yet.

more candy!

Early Saturday morning was our church Easter breakfast and egg hunt.

The Easter bunny hid the girls' Easter baskets downstairs. Apparently Kaylin snuck downstairs before we were up because she knew right where to go to find hers.

I made the girls matching dresses and flower clips for their hair. Kaylin refused to wear the flower. But she wore the dress, so I was happy. I only got one picture of the girls together because Lauren wasn't happy--she has an ear infection so I didn't try to force any more.

After church, we had dinner at Eric's parents'. They hid jelly bellies around the living room for Kaylin and Ryanne to find. It was a ton of candy for two little girls. They loved it.

They each have a nearly full cup of jelly bellies.

Eric, his brother Chris, Lauren, and Christopher

Smocked top dress

Kaylin is VERY picky about her clothes. She will only wear dresses. A few months ago she would wear leggings with her dresses, but not anymore. Now she wears shorts underneath, but only because we require her to wear either shorts or leggings.

Her favorite dress is a smocked top sundress that didn't look like it would be too hard to replicate. I took Kaylin to the fabric store, because she needed to pick the fabrics to ensure she will wear the dresses. She picked out three fabrics.

Here is the first dress:

She loves it so much that she doesn't even mind wearing a t-shirt underneath.

And why is her head chopped off in the above picture? Because of this...

She wasn't in the modeling mood. Also, she pretty much only wears boots. Usually it's her pink with purple hearts rain boots that are falling apart, but to church she wears the ones pictured above.

She loves the dress. What a relief.

To make the dress I loosely followed this tutorial.

Play house!

We got the girls a play house. It was a surprise for them. Eric has been working a lot of Saturdays, which means that he gets a day off during the week. He had a Wednesday off, which is the day Kaylin has preschool. This month I'm teaching preschool, so Eric worked on the play house in the garage while we were having preschool. After preschool and lunch it was nap time for Lauren and quiet time for Kaylin. Eric and I worked hard to get the play house finished. We brought the house into the backyard. While we worked it was sunny, then it hailed, then it rained, and then it cleared up again. Later that night it snowed. Weird weather. We worked through the hail and rain because we were determined to get it finished.

We brought Kaylin into the backyard by going around the house, here she is with a huge smile on her face and running to the house.

She kept thanking us and ran up and hugged me.

She immediately took the flower pots inside.

Kaylin loves her play house. She has played in it nearly everyday, even in the rain. I gave her a little set of dishes and we bought her a set of plastic food in a basket. Kaylin really wants Lauren to play in the house with her, but so far Lauren hasn't wanted anything to do with it. It's more that Lauren doesn't like to walk on the ground outside. She won't walk on the patio, she won't walk on the grass, she won't walk on the bark at the playground, she just won't walk outside. Once we get past that, I'm sure she'll love the play house too.

Stitches for Kaylin

Eric and I were downstairs getting ready to watch the NCAA National Championship basketball game when we heard a big crash. We weren't sure if it was inside or outside our house, we listened for a few seconds, and then continued our conversation. A few seconds later we heard crying upstairs and Eric raced up the stairs. We found Kaylin standing at the top of the stairs with a bloody chin. She said she was jumping on her bed (which she is NOT supposed to do) and fell and hit her chin on the bed frame. After getting it cleaned up a little, we realized that she would need stitches.

Thankfully Eric's mom was able to run over to watch Lauren while Eric and I took Kaylin to urgent care.

The triage nurse taped gauze to Kaylin's face. We immediately had to find a mirror so Kaylin could check it out. The waiting area had toys and a TV, so Kaylin played while we watched the basketball game.

After lots of waiting, we were finally taken back to an examination room. We finished the basketball game. They were finally able to see us. They numbed Kaylin's chin and then left for 20 minutes for it to be fully numb.

They put this diaper around her head when they cleaned her chin to absorb the saline they flushed it with.

They gave her the "squirt gun" they used to flush her chin.

All clean and ready to stitch.

They were able to use glue to close it up. They also put three steri-strips on with some brownish-yellow glue. They will be on for 1.5-2 weeks, possibly longer.

All finished.

Once again, we had to go find a mirror so Kaylin could see her chin.

Eric got Kaylin an ice cream bar. She was excited to eat it when we got home. She also reminded us that she didn't have dinner, so at 10:45pm she had a butter sandwich... just bread and butter, yum. She was finally in bed around 11.

Kaylin did so well during the whole thing. She barely complained and was super patient. We were at urgent care for over 3 hours and she did great.

Now we get to wait to see what kind of a scar this is going to leave.

And hopefully she won't jump on her bed again.