Easter Weekend

We just had a wonderful Easter weekend at home. Grandma Reinsel came up to visit for a night, and of course the kids loved that! The boys played games, played hide and seek in the basement, watched Tangled, and all of us went to the park this afternoon.

Here is Emily, getting into the cars. She of course has tons of baby toys around to chew on, but she will always make her way over to the boys' stuff to chew on that instead.

The boys playing with Grandma

Emily chewing on a teething while we ate dinner.

Andy always has a hug for his baby sister

Jack getting ready to go for a run :)

Exploring at the park this afternoon

Jack and daddy checking out the mini-waterfallGrandma and Andy sitting on a stump chair Jack "Spiderman" Reinsel sliding to the rescue

Jack on a big kids' swing

Andy got going pretty fast

Emily at 8 months old

This weekend, Emily turned 8 months old. She is such a sweetheart. Sleeping about the same - usually waking up once per night, but then sleeping until 7:30, which is great with me. She doesn't have any teeth yet, but I can feel a bottom middle one just about coming through. So it will be soon, I bet. She is chewing on anything she can get her hands on. She's eating oatmeal, rice cereal, and pretty much any of the Stage 2 Fruits and Veggies. She isn't crawling, but is rolling wherever she needs to go now. She can pretty much sit on her own but sometimes needs a steadying hand. She looks at you when you call her name and continues to find Andy & Jack completely entertaining. So far she has enjoyed going to parks and going for walks - getting fresh air and swinging on the swings. We're looking forward to getting outside more with her as the weather gets nicer. Here's Emily in her Easter outfit...

Another trip to the Building for Kids

Well, after trying to think of some different things to do today during the snowy weather, we decided to go to the Building for Kids again in Appleton. The boys loved it as usual... I took a few pictures, and I can't believe how much older Emily is looking compared to our pictures in visits past.

Here's Emily all ready to go

And once Andy saw me taking pictures, he needed one with Emmie

Jack wanted his picture taken on the couch... but didn't want ANYONE sitting with him :)

Captain Andy and Captain Jack, ready for take off

Emily on the airplane

Andy and Mommy

Emily sitting so nicely in her own seat :)

Emily and I, courtesy of Andy

Fireman Jack, riding the truck

The boys created some great art masterpieces today

Andy working on creating a vehicle

Builder Jack hard at work

When April gives you snow....

Make a SNOWMAN!! Yep, late April and over a half-foot of snow here. Kind of depressing when we were playing at parks last week. But, it will melt quickly so we decided to take advantage of it today during Emily's nap. It was nice playing outside, since it wasn't too cold. Andy and I made a Snow Batman...

Here's Andy working on lifting some giant "boulders" for our snowman

Jack mainly just oversaw our progress while working on the snowman

We made a big snowpile and Andy threw snowballs at me from his fort. (he's getting very accurate and throwing them farther now... he especially loved it when I would throw snowballs back at him. I was nice though and avoided his hat-free head.)

Jack liked climbing in the snow

Aiming a snowball...
Fire!!!
Our snowbatman has already toppled... the boys are okay with that though. They want this snow gone just about as much as Chris & I do!