WARNING: I have not yet thought about my message, but I have the distinct impression it is going to be lengthy. Bear with me, good people.
April was BUSY. Not our standard April-busy, as for once in my professional career, the busy-ness had nothing to do with taxes or financial statements, but we managed to fit in about as much life as we could on all our evenings and weekends. We had a lot of fun, and have a lot of pictures to prove it.
Easter was our first event of the month. We have started an annual tradition of hosting an Easter egg hunt in our yard the Saturday before (this year being the second annual hunt). We are very close with five other families in immediate proximity to our house, with 14 offspring ranging from 6 months - 9 years. It's been such a great couple of years watching friendships grow among the kids - and the parents for that matter. Anyway, we had a great time with the hunt, a craft project afterwards and watching the kids play while the parents got to chat it up.
We caught Pinkalicious, the Musical with our awesome neighbors as well this month. 5 girls attended the play with their Moms. We had a pizza party at our neighbor's amazing new restaurant before the play (major perk of your neighbors owning a restaurant). The play was super cute (and totally pink so we had five very captivated little audience members) and the girls all got autographs from Pinkalicious herself (gasp!) afterwards. We concluded the day with a pink cupcake afterparty at Megan's friend Claire's house, where Hannah joined us (she is not quite play ready with her tendency to throw things and scream at random). It was a great, insanely pink, day.
Miss Megan insists on growing up and going off to kindergarten in the fall, despite my refusal to let her turn 5. There is currently a big debate in our district as to whether or not kindergarten will be all-day, every day or remain the current 2.5 day (all-day, alternate day) schedule. They don't expect to decide until the end of this month, which is rather annoying. Because Megan has been in daycare full time since the wee age of 3 months, we're not too concerned with her transition (it may actually make our life easier just sending her to the same place every day), but it will be nice to know what our plans are for the fall. The elementary school she will be attending hosted a Kindergarten Visitation Day this month, where she visited the classroom for two hours while Mom's emotions were put in check with reassuring words from current faculty and staff during a parent-only meeting (Dad was there too, but for whatever reason the thought of her going to school does not incite him to burst into tears). It does seem like a wonderful school, and our future kindergartner LOVED her visit, which helped enormously. Though our meeting was only two hours, I took the day off and held Megan hostage for the rest of the day for some Mommy-bonding time. We went tutu shopping, out to lunch and had a lovely afternoon at home - all of this not particularly designed to make kindergarten okay for MEGAN, but I think she had a nice time too.
And, of course, just when I'm feeling all old and vulnerable at the thought of having a school-ager, the little one went and had herself a BIRTHDAY. I haven't entirely processed this yet, but I suppose I am now the mother of a 2 year old (though if you ask her, Hannah insists that she is "two-anna-haff"). She had a wonderful birthday! We took her to breakfast the morning of, then she went to school to pass out her special birthday treats, which she was totally proud of. Her Mickey/Minnie party was the following day - the original intent was to have a Minnie party, but when I took her to the party store with me (a COMPLETE lapse in judgment on my part) she started with the "Where Mickey?!?" when we picked up our Minnie supplies. The rest of the exchange when a bit like this: Mom - "Hannah, do you want a Mickey party?" Hannah - "Yeah" (Mom then picks out all the appropriate Mickey supplies) Hannah - "AHHHH! Where Minnie!?!" (Mom goes back to Minnie) Hannah - "WHERE MICKEY?!?"... and there you have it folks, a Mickey and Minnie party (despite completely conflicting color schemes). I may or may not have gone a little crazy with the Mickey themed treats, but she was totally into it. We had a great time celebrating with family and friends, and had a super happy TWO YEAR OLD to boot.
They are both doing great. We recently picked up a Barbie Jeep Power Wheels thing from Craigslist for them. I had no aspirations to own one of these stupid things, but the rest of the neighbor kids have them, and they all get together and drive their little cars around all day long. Our kids were hitching rides all the time, so we were majorly guilted into the purchase. Megan is approximately the worst driver ever, but at a max of 5 mph, I'm not too concerned about her potential for fiery crashes at this point.
Hannah is talking insane amounts - she went from 2-3 words to entire paragraphs overnight, I swear. She says everything - all the time, and she is probably the most hilarious person I have ever met. She is very intentionally comedic most of the day - I definitely see potential as a stand-up comic or perhaps a circus clown in her future. Many of you know that I am not exactly the most quiet person in the world, but between these two chatterboxes, I generally practice 15-20 minutes of complete silence after putting them to bed. We had her 2 year check up on Monday - she weighed in a hefty 31 pounds, but more remarkably, she is 3 feet tall! That puts her off the charts for height - who would have guessed?!? Yesterday we took her for more allergy testing (you may remember that a year ago we learned that she was severely allergic to eggs) - we wanted to have her tested for peanuts/tree nuts so we didn't have to learn the hard way that she was allergic, as egg and peanut allergies often go hand in hand. Not only is she not allergic to any form of nuts, but her egg allergy has all but disappeared too! That was great news. They suggested we avoid giving her unprocessed eggs (scrambled eggs, etc) for another year until she's old enough to undergo controlled testing at the doctor's office, but that is easy enough. We were just happy to hear she is trending in the right direction.
Okay, that's all I've got at this point. Kyle and I are off to the Dominican Republic for a few days next week. At the end of the month I'm flying down for a long weekend to visit my precious new nephew, Oliver, so between the two trips I will barely see the kids long enough to photograph them. You won't hear from me for awhile, I promise. :)
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