I have been telling myself for days, ok maybe weeks, now to get the Easter stuff out of the attic and I finally did the other day. Better late than never I guess. In the Easter box, which is actually the "spring" box, was the Valentines and St Paddy's stuff that I obviously never put out! Oops!

I dug the spring box out from the tiny crawl space/attic, it was the LAST box in line. I decided that I should let Kaylee "practice" finding eggs. I mean her Easter egg hunt at school was THE NEXT DAY! Once again, better late than never. I kicked her out of the play room and hid all eggs that were in the box. When I was finished I invited her back in to find them. She went for the talking egg first, obviously it was the easiest to find cause it wouldn't shut up. "I'm hiding" "come find me!" "i'm over here!" it would repeat over and over. Even after she put it in her basket it kept talking. Finally she looked at it and said "you're not hiding, I found you all-re-ready". That little egg was a gift from a friend of mine last Easter, Kaylee was a bit too young for it then, but this year it is already a hit. She slowly but surely found the next couple of eggs, then got distracted and frustrated so she wanted me to TELL her where to find the rest. I helped her by giving her directions and telling her which way to look and turn, we really need to work on some independence here.

After she found all the eggs she immediately wanted to play again, I thought to myself "you barely played that round, now you want to have another go at it?" Lunchtime was approaching so I told her we would bring the baskets and eggs downstairs and we could play while I got lunch ready. She was going to hide the eggs for me first. When she was ready she instructed me to find them. And after very little looking, I found them all piled in one place slightly out of sight. "man, that was easy!" We are going to be doing a few more trial runs, oh and maybe even some outside since the weather is so nice!

Kaylee and I were eating lunch, nachos with chicken, black beans, and cheese. I love me some pepper jack on my nachos, and Kaylee used to like it too. But lately she has not been too keen on spicy cheese, but she sure does like when Marcus gives her his Tabasco sauce. Explain that one to me? She got a nacho with too much spicy cheese and went for the water. In between the drinks and chews she said "I don't like picy cheese anymore". I said "yes you do, you are Mexican you like spicy food". She asked "I AM Mexican?" I said "Yes, you are Mexican!" Then she asked, very inquisitively, "Are you Mexican? Is Ainslee Mexican? Is Tahoe Mexican?" It was so cute!

She told me the other day when she was sitting on the potty, "Mommy I am getting bigger!" I nearly cried.

She has spent the last 2 nights away from home. First with my mom on Monday night, and then Tuesday when we went to pick Ainslee up from Ceire, she basically told Ceire that she was going to spend the night......so she did! It was an awesome little break from the bedtime/ middle of the night CRAP that we have been going through.

Wordless Wednesday (sort of)

We had a nice day outside the other day, the weather was just too awesome to stay in. After 3 hours we were ALL ready for bed (except Kaylee, ha!)

As if the dog hair isnt enough......

and this is one of her favorite ways to go down the slide, it doesnt surprise me considering it is her favorite way to get around......on her left knee

Kaylee is dreaming about the where that jeep will take her one day. Ok maybe not THAT jeep, but i'm sure if she bats those big blue eyes, when she is 18, at her daddy he will buy her any car she wants.

These girls are going to be best friends


Her smiles are getting better, still not normal, but better

Ainslee: "Kaylee, wait for me!"

Ainslee: "I promise one day I will be able to keep up with you, and then you will be sorry you were ever mean to me!"

Kaylee: "come on Ainslee I will help you"

Ainslee: "thanks! I knew I loved you!"

My Big Backyard Pictures

This little play house was so cute, I wanted to take it home with us. It had a little loft the kids could climb up in and then they could step on a chair to see out of this tiny window.

playing dress-up


Then she wanted a picture with her model

Taking a rest on the giant wormy

check out her ginormous eye

chrysalis swing

getting some practice hanging clothes out to dry

daddy and Kaylee chillin' in some Adirondack chairs, sippin' on some lemonade

Some videos

Ainslee is like a lab puppy with a tennis ball when it comes to match box cars. I know that sounds sort of weird, but you have to see this video



It is so fun to play on daddy's beer. Oh and you gotta love the sound she makes when something pisses her off.

Girls playing in the bath, watch at the very end where Kaylee tries to get Ainslee to put the "mask", I wish I would have kept the video rolling for about 5 more seconds.

And here is Kaylee limping because she got 2 booboos on her knees at her friend MT's house. She was so pitiful for DAYS afterwards, I swear she has major injuries that dont phase her then little scrapes on her knees are like the end of the world.


Ainslee's primary means of transportation. Gotta love the 1/2 walk + 1/2 crawl version. We like to call it the left knee scoot. She is wearing out the left knee in all of her pants.



You think I talk on the phone too much? When the phone rings Ainslee screams and points to it for me to answer it, maybe I should start letting her answer it......she seems to be mastering the techinque.

more pictures

Here are a few shots from a few weeks ago when we took the girls to the zoo (I think the rest of the city had the same idea as us!) It was the first nice day, and man was it a perfect day!

This is the same spot we took that picture back in November......i think it might have to be a tradition now.

riding the tram
i have no idea what Ainslee thinks is so funny

Circus Pictures

Ainslee sat there entranced by the whole show, Kaylee thought it was pretty was amazing too. As you can see she sucks her thumb much more now, not sure why though.

One of my favorite pics
My beautiful little girl

This picture sums up my girls......Kaylee the goof trying to make people laugh and do her hardest not to smile for ANY picture, and Ainslee saying "look at me, arent I so cute!"

Riding the elephant

horrible quality but shows how incredibly delighted she was on the entire ride

well......except this one, she looks like she wants Marcus to save her

Kaylee's foot kept getting stuck when the elephant would flap his ears, he would pin her foot between his ear and his head, and she would scream. So funny!

Pictures as promised

Kaylee and Ainslee both LOVED the swing at their friend MT's house. They could spend hours in that thing. We would have to wait about 20 years before we had a tree big enough for a swing like that. It was so cute watching Ainslee's face light up with delight. She would practically hold her breath as she swung (swinged? whatever).

Ainslee LOVES the plasma car

Just before she got about 2 inches trimmed off

Painting at Paint a Piece

Tykes and Trikes

her first time on a big girl bike

this video CRACKS ME UP! She looks like she has been riding that bike for weeks, when in actuality she just learned about 5 seconds before the video was taken. She wasnt even looking where she was going, she looked like such a little old lady.