Easter Egg Hunt - Alexis and Jessica

Another You Tube video of Alexis and Jessica on the Methuen Easter Egg Hunt. 
Alexis is already working with the local politicians -- Mayor Manzi (he had a lot of Easter Eggs for little kids that couldn't move fast enough).  Jessica LOVED the Bunny!
Enjoy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I__z_Rh7GI

(P.S.  This is my first attempt at video editing, please be nice with the comments, this is the top 10% of the footage)

Easter Family Pictures

sitting pretty before church

Sitting again.

Family picture

Getting a little distracted...

Alexis sitting pretty after church!

Beautiful Weather

Today was a beautiful weather day.  It was supposed to be in the 70s but my car thermometer said 86.  That's awesome considering we can still get SNOW in Massachusetts in April.  So, we enjoyed ourselves.
We took a walk around the neighborhood - Alexis strolled and Jessica rode her tricycle (but it vibrates too much for 1.2 miles and she has to get on and off several times). 
Then we went to Methuen's Easter Egg Hunt.  There was one set up for the Preschoolers/Kindergarteners.  It was great fun.  Jessica and Alexis picked up about 4 eggs before all of the eggs were all gone.  Alexis and I made a bee-line to the Methuen Mayor who put 6 more eggs into the basket!  The Methuen Mayor actually lives in our neighborhood.  He was impressed with Alexis' walking with her walker!  Hopefully when we go Trick-or-Treating this year for Halloween, she'll be able to use her walker.  (that's a 1.2 mile loop).....After the Easter Egg Hunt, we had a brief picnic/snack at the park then came home for real lunch.
After lunch, the kids ran around outside and then Jessica was exhausted and took a nap.  I went out for errands and got a lot accomplished.  Matt stayed at home with the always-pleasant kids.  :-) 

In other news, I went to Alexis' school for the whole day yesterday -- it was so exhausting.  They made us do a loop around the TRACK for gym class.  Ok, they didn't make us, but we did it!!  Alexis is doing an awesome job pushing her walker and keeping up with it.  She's not great steering, but she also gets really distracted people or thing-watching.  She had PT, OT, and cooking yesterday.  She did great in PT and OT and then tried to sleep in cooking.  I helped her taste-test her cooking.  Yum! Yum!  After cooking, she had an impromptu dance party before going home with mommy.  All-in-all, a great day!  We skipped Friday after school PT on Friday, good thing, I got to go to bed early!

Tomorrow is Easter and we've already gotten the kids in bed so that we can all get up for 7:30 service.  Then we'll get to go to breakfast, yum yum.  And then nothing scheduled tomorrow... maybe some naps :-)

Enjoy the weekend and if you're in New England, enjoy the beautiful weather!
Catherine

2 Sisters demonstrate how to use the New Trampoline

Alexis got a new indoor / outdoor trampoline.  Here she is trying it for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Obv8rAFvaw
As you can observe, Alexis is very timid, taking it slowly and trying to judge her own weight and how to make sure she can work it.  (She's also holding on very tight).  Dad is helping because obviously Alexis isn't jumping enough to make it automatically count (it's got a bounce sensor in it). 

Jessica didn't think that Alexis did a great job, so she had to demonstrate exactly how it could be used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prn5HNrIjSw
That is 13 seconds of how Jessica used it for 10 minutes.  She was almost too tired for dinner after trampoline-time. 

I think Alexis will really enjoy it when Jessica isn't around to push her off of it.

Jessica being a HAM for the camera

Alexis playing outside, while Daddy was doing yard work.  Mom wasn't working at all.

Jessica finished with dinner, trying to get out of her chair.....

Some delays later

It's been a busy time.  After being out of the house in a hotel for a night (from the power outage), Matt left on a business trip.  It was a 10 day tour of Japan.  He had a very productive time.
Grandma and Grandpa Schnaderbeck came to Methuen to stay and help with Alexis and Jessica schedules.  It was a big help to have extra hands here with me.  Matt only got to see them for about 4 hours. 
This past week has been very busy -- Jessica is starting the transition process from Early Intervention to Preschool.  She'll turn 2yrs 9months on April 4th, which seems hard to believe!  She is still our little baby.  But it's good, we are working on getting her more language practice and seeing specialists at Children's to help her learn to talk. 
Alexis has been very busy, obviously school is always very busy.  Then on Thursday, Alexis and Dad went to Alexis' dentist appointment in Boston.  She needs to brush and floss more often, I guess we'll have to put it into her calendar system.  Their trip was successful, but a little eventful.  Alexis' g-tube came out at the hospital - which is ok, they should have replacements, but contacting and finding the right department to get the replacement would have been a hassle.  So, Matt got the Dentist to move quickly and did a g-tube swap out at Perkins (Alexis' school has a spare one).  Of course, now that I type that, I guess they don't have a spare one now - so I should remember to send one in.  Maybe when my mom reads that, she can remind me to do it.  :-)

I posted a video of our messy house but of Jessica putting away the silverware.  Please note that she's a ham for the camera (and somewhat distracted).  She likes helping around the house.  She can't see into the draw and thus can't sort the silverware into the right spaces, but otherwise, she is very helpful and very proud of herself.

She was also distracted by daddy with Alexis changing clothes this morning.  Very much my baby.

Take care, sorry for the delay in posting.
Catherine

Jessica Helping Empty Dishwasher