Easter with Cox cont and Easter Exhaustion

Peace!

Rylan and Kevin taking in some basketball time, following by some baseball time with his Dad.

We were so on our way to Kaye's house for another Easter Egg hunt...Kevin changed her diaper and she fell asleep. Poor tired little girl!

Easter with the Cox Family

After church on Easter Sunday the Cox family came over for lunch. GG had some goodies for SKV and Rylan.
Yips! They both got big ol yips!

And bubbles-what fun is Springtime without bubbles?

Easter Sunday, bribery

This is the most pitiful thing I've seen. Sidney Kate refuses to pose for a picture anymore...

Cheesin' it up!

Cute right? Well, the next picture explains how we managed this shot! (Good job Daddy!)

Happy Easter Sidney Kate!

Oh Easter was fun for Sidney Kate this year, and tiring.

She woke up, had pancakes, and then went in search of her Easter treats.

This first video is her "Easter Clueless" video and after watching you'll know why.  We get a big kick out of her ways of acting like she knows what is going on, when she's...clueless.  So sweet.

Happy Easter Sidney Kate Part 2

Here she is...off to find her Easter Bunny goodies!  Turn up your speakers to listen closely to her language.  I don't know where she gets this...we're still laughing over this one!

(This is also when it was decided her birthday theme!)

The fun continues...

and continues...

and continues...

FIRST SWIMMING LESSON!

So Daddy took a million pictures of Sidney Kate's first swimming lesson (rock on Daddy!), but I'm only going to post four.
As soon as we arrived she wanted her shoes off and to get in-I was so excited that she was interested!

She walked a few steps in by herself and then said, "Mommy, I hold you!"

The first few seconds were a little scary, (don't worry grandfolks, this didn't last a minute!)

After we sang the first song, she was all smiles the rest of the 30 minutes! She swam, kicked, dug, quacked, washed, walked the wall and jumped off the ladder. She had a ball! The sweetest thing was after jumping off the ladder each time she hugged me and excitedly said, "Thank you Mommy!"

The night ended with cries of, "I wanna go swim lesson! I wanna play in the water!"
So glad it was crying as we left instead of during! Swimming lessons, here we come!

Aunt Emily and Uncle Keith's Baby Shower

It's almost time for a special arrival...Kylie Anne! We can't wait! To get prepared for the big event, Aunt Emily and Uncle Keith were thrown a shower.
Here is SKV and Sarah; Sarah comes off the mountain for special events and we were glad to see her! (Ain't she pretty!)

Aunt Linda, Nathan and SKV

The proud parents, Grandma and Rylan-such a big helper!

So, Sidney Kate couldn't let them have all the fun...

"My Boo Boo!"

Playing outside one day after work/daycare, SKV fell going with me to check the mail. She immediately knew she hit solid gold...she began screaming, "My boo boo, my boo boo!" I promised her Dora would fix it as I carried her upstairs. A little peroxide (on a towel because she dare not let it touch her skin), lotion (Neosporin) and Dora bandaids and all was well with the world. On the way back out she said, "My boo boo feels better."
Shew! Thank you Dora!

Cookout!

After Carter's birthday party and after our driveby at the Hauser's, we hit up a cookout at the Freeman's.
The Gator was charged and the kids were ready! Derek is a great little driver and was very careful when Sidney Kate was his passenger. I don't think we can say the same thing when Carter is his passenger.

Does it get any cuter?

Poor Carter, he got the rough seat.

Just plain funny. (Women...reading the directions to tell the men folk what to do and how to do it.)
:)

Drive by at the Hausers

After Carter's party, we stopped by Grandma and Papa Hauser's to see what was going on. Tulips! That's what was going on, I might have asked Sidney Kate to go over and smell some for me...so glad she did. They are as big as she is!

Carter's Party Continued

Yes...this was my other attempt at a group picture, and they all ran! They had an Easter Egg Hunt and it was mega fun! That is a great party activity for kids! (and adults, anyone want to plan a grown up Easter Egg hunt?)

Sidney Kate wasn't the fastest egg hunter, but she was much improved from last year. See here where she found one and was satisfied talking about it the rest of the hunt.

Go girl go!

I'm glad she was able to be successful at egg hunting, she had some great ones this year!

Happy Birthday Carter!

Happy Birthday Carter!
To celebrate, we headed to my old stopping grounds. The kids have big fun on the church playground and I say it's a perfect birthday spot! Shelter for the adults and running room for the kiddos.

Here is SKV's favorite Uncle Chad helping her live our her swinging dreams-the girl loves a swing!

I was very impressed to see her maneuver so well on the play equipment. She has successfully figured two different sets out enough, where she can skip out on asking us for help. (Insert mixed emotion here)

Yeah...this was the closest thing I could get to a group shot...and there are kids missing here.