New Moves

We are really enjoying this time in David's life. It seems like one of many "perfect" ages. Yes, the majority of time I am being told "nooo" or "I want..." or "that's mine" but when he isn't being stubborn he is surprising Dan and I with new skills, words and personality. He is hilarious! Just yesterday he came home with some new dance moves (I apologize the video is sideways)

He loves the theme music to that show so I must have rewound it a half dozen times just to watch him dance.

David is really becoming a little boy and with his 2nd birthday quickly approaching I'm getting a little sad that he's not a tiny baby anymore. The 2nd birthday has been much harder on me than the 1st and I can only imagine how quickly we'll be celebrating his 18th birthday at this rate!

Happy Easter

Last weekend was my first attempt at making cake pops and well...they didn't turn out bad per se but they definitely didn't look like they were supposed to. The first couple of "eggs" fell off their sticks, the next couple didn't look like eggs, and the couple after that well lets just say the candy coating was a little excessive. The saving grace was they were delicious. A little too rich for my blood (chocolate cake with chocolate frosting) but the girls loved them.

Yesterday's attempt was much better! Jess, Jess & Lisa came over and everyone got involved and made great Easter pops.

Blue was definitely the hardest but the yellow and pink seemed to turn out really well. Poor Lisa thought it was her but I definitely think there was something up with the blue candy. We also made Easter eggs for all of the kids in my little section of the neighborhood. We wrote their names on the outside, filled them with candy, and went and hid them in their yards. Kevin and Dan ended up having the dogs go nuts at one house and Geo ended up with massive grass so who knows if you can see the eggs or not. Hopefully they find them and their parents don't flip (cross your fingers).

It is tradition in my family that the Easter Bunny hides your Easter basket. Last year he hid (read:in plain view) David's basket under the side table. This year he was a little sneakier and hid David's basket in his favorite kitchen cabinet. We are waiting for Daddy to wake up so we can go on the hunt - hurry up Daddy! Mommy is getting impatient :)

Today we are headed to Calvert to see all of Dan's family and then headed back to the Island to see my Mom and Sister's family. I'm sure the girls will have tons to tell me about the Easter Bunny and everything they received.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Crafty Weekend

We are super busy tomorrow with Swim lessons, birthday party & Easter egg hunt but Sunday is pretty open. I do need to get my dress hemmed for Kelly's wedding so I'll do that on Sunday but the rest of the day is going to be full of crafts.

I'm planning on making 2 puzzle bags. One will be for his train puzzle so I'll have to make a train to put on the front and the other will be for his farm animal puzzle. I have to decide whether to use a zipper or a snap though. David is getting pretty good with the zippers but the pieces aren't small enough to really warrant that. The snap may just be easer all around. Or I cold do a button with a small loop to go around it so he could learn a new skill and I'm thinking it would be the easiest.

Like this but I would have the top flap actually fold over so the pieces couldn't fall out:


Then in the evening David and I will get to do some baking. A couple practice runs for some desserts I want to take to Easter dinner. I was going to do the dry run last night and even got all of the supplies except the most crucial which was cake mix...I frustrate myself sometimes.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll post pictures once I actually make something!