The Easter Bunny Came

This Easter was really the first Easter that Kent understood the concept of the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunts, which made it all the more fun.  We did one hunt with the MOMS Club I am part of, one with the city we live in, and one at home.  We had plenty of candy to last us for a while.  While my parents were here in the weeks prior to Easter they brought the movie Hop for Kent to watch.  Now Kent thinks that the Easter Bunny poops jelly beans; I guess the Easter Bunny will always leave a trail of poop in our house.

Kent's first experience finding eggs.  Luckily the older kids hunting were kind enough to leave eggs for the little ones to find too.

Going through the loot.

Dying Easter eggs.  I think Ammon enjoyed this activity more than anyone.  His goal was to make the darkest egg he could.  He even boiled more eggs so he had some to leave in the dye overnight.  Don't worry, we didn't eat those ones.

Kent had to do it all by his self.

The Easter Bunny's layout.

The trail of bunny poop.

Kent would find an egg and instantly open it to dump the candy out.  He was so excited about Skittles and Starbursts.

He got his favorite movie Bolt.  This movie is watched more than any other movie in the house.

AddiLynn got a gloworm.

The kids in their Easter outfits.

Front Runner - First Train Ride

My parents and grandparents came to visit shortly after the new City Creek Shopping Center opened in Salt Lake.  We all wanted to see it and instead of taking cars and messing with driving, we decided to ride the Front Runner down.  This was Kent and AddiLynn's first train ride.  Kent absolutely loved it, especially when his dad took him up top.  We were not too impressed with City Creek, especially when we had no money to spend, but it was a fun experience nonetheless. 

Everyone in our party, Grandma, Kent, Great-Grandpa and Ma Larsen, Grandpa, Great-Aunt Claron, and Dad .

Great-Grandpa and Ma with Addy.

Grandma and Kent.  He was seriously this happy the whole time.

A Little About Kent

I am bound and determined to keep this blog up, but we seem to do more things and take more pictures then I can blog about in a reasonable amount of time.  But I will still give it my best effort.  Kent is growing like a weed, he recently turned 3 and will start preschool in a few weeks.   Whenever I tell him he is going to go to preschool he says, "Don't leave me!"  The kid still has an intense fear of being left.

I took Kent to a preschool-type program at the Ogden Nature Center.  They learned about things that swim.  Here is a fish magnet he caught.

Using a magnifying glass to inspect the turtle a little closer.

Chasing the wild turkeys.

We bought new storage for the kids' toys and then recycled the box into a makeshift rocket for Kent.  We took it to a park and pushed him down a hill.  We call it warm weather sledding, unfortunately it doesn't work as well as a snow sled, but it was worth a shot.

This kid still loves all things CANDY!

Hiding in a laundry basket with a flashlight.

While Ammon was on TDY last time, I took Kent and introduced him to ICEEs at Target.  Now every time we enter Target he asks for one.  He also recently learned that Grandma Udy's Walmart also has ICEEs.

When you go to the park as often as we do you have to find ways to make the park more interesting.  Here Kent is racing his cars down the slide.

Kent has a fascination with motorcycles.  Ammon was able to construct one from Duplos.  I can out the morning after and found that Kent had found a rider for it. 

No day is complete without Kent needing to tote around "stuff".  Here he is with Mickey, his blanket, and Buzz.  Don't worry, everything has to stay in the car when we get wherever we are going.

One of Kent's favorite activities for a while was helping my great-aunt Claron and her daughter Kris pop popcorn for Sunday night treats at her house.  After it was popped, it was his job to deliver it to everyone in the living room.  I think he only spilled one once. 

 

He is getting pretty good at his balance bike.  I think next summer he will be ready for a two wheeler with pedals.  

Sibling Stories

Here are a few stories I wanted to get in writing (other than on Facebook) before I forget them:

Kent was sitting on my lap with the iPad while I was spotting Addy standing up next to the couch, at which point Addy began to fall.  As I reached for Addy, the iPad began to fall off Kent's lap.  With both the iPad and Addy falling Kent pleaded, "Save the iPad!"  I am sure he would have wanted Addy saved too.

Kent and I were playing Memory on the floor the other day and Addy crawled over and messed up the cards.  I told Kent we would just let her play with the Memory cards and we would go to the other side of the room and do his ABC puzzle.  Low and behold Addy crawled over and started taking out the letters that Kent had already put in.  Kent looks up at me and says, "Mom, I want to go to Amanda's because Addy is causing problems."  Regardless of what Kent says, he really does love his sister and gets along with her most of the time.  Now that she can crawl, she tends to irritate him a little more, but Kent is pretty mild mannered and never fights back, for which we are grateful.

 

Addy was thoroughly entertained by watching Kent play computer games.  This was before she came mobile and could fall of the couch.  

They had so much fun sitting side by side in this double stroller.  We have since purchased one of our own and LOVE it!

I can't believe we let Kent take Addy down the slide, but she loved it.  

This picture is taken at my great-aunt Claron's house.  We found the kids staring at themselves in the mirror at the bottom of the stairs.

All About Addy

Our little girl is growing up right before our eyes.  Here are a few things she has been up to...

 

She is such a big girl sitting up.

She smiles on demand.

She gets placed in the crib so mom can fold laundry without having it get unfolded.

She was babysat for the first time by someone other than family, although Jess is as close to family as it gets.  Kent's smirk in the background I am sure is from the fact he just got to spend the afternoon with just his parents, not his sister.

She loves to be outside.

She has boycotted anything to do with baby food in the jars.  Whatever we eat, she eats.

And she is happy about it.

She might not be the softball player I had hoped for...I guess it is time to purchase tap shoes!

Teaching Independence

It wasn't too long ago that we started realizing that Kent was capable of a lot more then we were giving him credit for, so we put him to work.

 

Vacuuming up his crumbs.

Stirring his own mac 'n cheese.

Using a Magic Eraser to remove his first, and hopefully last, drawing on the wall.

Trip to Washington - Back in February

 Back in February, the kids and I took a trip out to Washington for almost two weeks.  Ammon was scheduled to go to New Mexico again for work, so we thought we would escape being home alone.  We had a great time hanging out with family.  I think I made Rachel, Cade, and McCall hang out with us every day.  Here is a picture diary of what we did:

Grandma tried her darnedest to potty train Kent (he is potty trained now).

Pretty much the cutest group of cousins there is.

Glowsticks in the tub.

Best of friends.

Hide and seek in the box.

We even got to attend a WSU basketball game...Go Cougs!

I bought the boys a big thing of popcorn, look how happy Cade looks.

Grandpa gave up his court-side seats to sit by us...DURING HALFTIME!

The whole crew.

We played in the snow. This is one of my favorite pictures of Kent and Wiley.

Kent didn't like the snow fight he and Cade had.

A trip of Grandpa's new toy.

We colored the snow on grandma's deck, and the house (Thanks Rachel for cleaning it off).

Kent also got a little color.

The girls just spent time inside.

The boys played their first game of air hockey; Cade creamed Kent!

This is what our mornings looked like.  It was nice to have the Disney channel again.

We visited the grandparents at work.