Easter 2013!

Easter came early this year and the weather was cold!!  We were fortunate enough to be invited to an Easter Egg hunt at our neighbor's church.  Both kids had a blast!!  Tank actually loved hunting for the eggs and did very well!!  Tapanga did awesome on her very first egg hunt to including picking up the eggs and putting them in the basket herself this year!!!  This is after she had to look at and inspect every egg to see what was inside!  LOL  After the hunt we enjoyed a nice hotdog and cupcake lunch provided by the church.  I signed up and paid for the Ida Lee Easter Egg hunt that afternoon.  Both kids came home pooped from the morning egg hunt, but I ended up conviencing Tank to go to the afternoon one as well.  The egg hunt wasn't any rave but Tank loved the "jump jumps"!!  aka Moonbounces that were set up all along the fields.  He just have jumped, slid, climbed, etc. for at least 30 minutes.  This was all happening as Tapanga and Chip were home taking naps!

Easter Sunday Tank woke up before 6 am to hunt for his Easter basket!!  He kept saying "Santa, Santa"!!  oh dear!!  He was very excited to receive a mickey puzzle, Berinstein Bears books, Mickey cup, Elmo juice, Bunny sippy cup.  Tapanga's basket had minnie cup, toy turtle, light up bunny necklace, books.  We dressed the kids in the outfits I sewed to go to church.  At church they hosted another Easter Egg hunt and had a Jump, Jump!  It was a pretty chilly day but we came home, ate some ham and relaxed!

Tapanga is 14 months!

Tapanga is a joy at 14 months old!!  She is walking everywhere, climbing onto everything, up and down the stairs independently, and its just beginning to walk on uneven surfaces since the weather is finally nice this week!  She likes to hold a hand and walk some though she is slow and gets distracted easily.  She tries to do a lot that Tank does and he has a short fuse for it sometimes.  Other times they laugh and play on the couch for a while together!

Tapanga loves to eat!  She can sit and eat and eat and isn't picky!  Her biting has calmed down and I just finished nursing her on 4/7.

This month continues her swim sessions.  She loves the water and can hold onto the side and put her leg up really well.  She loves when I lift her off the side into the water!!  Now that she says "duck", that is her favorite part of the class.  She even sees them in the bag at the beginning of the class and we don't duck hunt until the end.  Pending on the instructor there are also balls.  She says "ball" and gets excited to do this part of the lesson.  I have the kids in separate swim sessions so after Tank's class the three of us swim together afterward.  This makes quite the adventure in showering all of us and getting dressed!

Tapanga loves her baby dolls.  She is very possessive over any doll in front of other kids.  I have been babysitting my neighbor's twins and Tapanga did not want to share any of her baby dolls.  She has become very opinionated lately!  She and Tank even fight over them as well.  She will put her dolls in his truck and push them around the room!!  It's really cute!

We went to an Agriculture Day and there were lots of goats, sheep, rabbits, chickens, etc.  Tapanga is very brave and wanted to pet everything!!  Tank not so much!  I was kinda surprised!

St. Patrick's Day 2013

Tapanga's Firsts!