Too funny...James and I caught Grant and Audrey in the same moment. We had to laugh. Who knew the pleasure of putting your foot in a nesting block? I love that both of them had the same thought!
Caught Grant in the hallway in his Dad's shoes. Quite a long ways to grow into them, but he did a great job keeping them on. He made it all the way into the kitchen...before he slipped them off! Too funny!
Our Easter Sunday did not start till after church. We have nine o'clock church and are usually rushing out the door, so no time to take our time and make Easter fun. We started with our Easter Egg hunt. I was impressed with Grant. He got the hang of Easter Eggs Hunts finally. The first few years it was mosty me finding the eggs...
I love this pic of Audrey. She was so intent on finding eggs and opening them right away. The Easter Bunny had them filled with chocolate eggs and jelly beans. No wonder she couldn't wait!
I adore Audrey's Easter dress. We found it at a Carters, and this is momentus because we do not have one in Casper. It was nice to have something ORIGINAL!
Coloring eggs this year was a little more exciting. Grant is getting to where he can participate more. His attention span was about 3 minutes. Typical for my 3 year old. 
We colored them, put stickers on them, drew on them, and dyed them. And that was that!Easter Saturday was a great day. It was our first warm day in months-warm meaning we could be outside, but still had to wear coats. We started off with going to a local park for an Easter Egg hunt. There was us, and about most of Casper there. The whistle sounded and the kids grabbed all the eggs they had in less than thirty seconds. We walked away with two. One for each of the kids. Not something that we do a whole is go out to eat...we just don't with our kids very often. When we have gone out, they have been fine, but I think we press our luck when we do. We decided to treat the kids to Burger King. Not just to have lunch, but also to let the kids play in the Play Place. Grant had a great time. He actually sat down and his lunch before playing. He surprises me!
Afterward, we went home, and let the kids play on Grant's new swing set. They had a ball. One, for being outside, and two, for having something fun to do in the yard. They loved it. Grant went down the slide right away!
One of the many things I love about summer is all the activities I get to do with my kids. Play-Doh is one of them. Not many people like to let their kids play with Play-Doh-it's messy, the kids tend to eat it, etc. But I love the language and the teaching opportunities it gives me. Grant and I practice our numbers, making things like balls and houses. Audrey hears this language and wants to join in. I only play with before I have swept up, so the kids can make their mess, and its not too bad to clean up, since I have to do it anyway. Love the Play-Doh time with my kids.
Grant likes to make his numbers. We made every number we had along with little balls to go under each number. Then he made a mess!
Audrey loves to fill things up and empty them back out again. She will do this for a long time. She must have filled up that little purple bucket ten times with Play-Doh. So cute!
I was in the kitchen one morning cleaning up, and I heard both Grant and Audrey giggling. I was met with this:
Funny, huh? And that is Super Why on the TV. This was the first day of school for Grant. I thought he looked so grown up with his new haircut and big boy jeans.
Grant's last day of therapy took place at the end of March. The end of an era. Grant had been seeing someone from the Child Development Center since he was almost 2 months old. They came once a week for about 2 1/2 years, and then increased his time to 4 days a week. He has really excelled in the past year. It has been amazing.
Grant's speech therapist Casey Hopman, who came when Grant was 2 and a 1/2 years old. She came twice a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. She's actually LDS and we would have great talks about our kids. I feel like it is worth mentioning that she is LDS since that is so hard to come by. Don't get me wrong...the church is strong here, it's just nice to know someone else is. I've learned not to take that for granted!
This is Kelly Taubert. She was Grant's Occupational Therapist (often called Physical Therapist by me). She started seeing Grant when he was 2 months old. For a long time it was only once a week, and then she started to come twice a week. Grant always looked forward to her visits. Near the end, he gave her a kiss on the leg. How cute is that!
Of course, Audrey would want to get into the fun. She looked forward to the visitors as much as Grant did. She always wanted to climb into the chair that one of them would always bring.
Grant and Audrey loved this drum! Oh my! So glad that I do not own one. The keyboard downstairs is enough for me! The gal on the left is named Bree. She came to get Grant acquainted with a program that they apparently use in preschool. (I say "apparently" because I have yet to see it make an appearance in his preschool sessions.)
A favorite fun activity for sure, was Grandma's piano. Audrey couldn't enough of it. She loved to press the keys, and climb up on the chair to reach it. She had a great time!
Grant loves to play on these playgrounds. He had such a good time crawling through the tunnels and going down the slide. My mom and I heard the word, "tunno" a few times for tunnel.
Climbing up the slide...no matter how many times I say to go down the slide, Grant thinks he has to climb up it. It must be a kid thing to have to climb up a slide.
Entertaining kids is always something we think about. Luckily, when we go to Grandma Jeanne's, Kirk has his cars that he had when he was a kid. Grant loves them.
Audrey just loved being in Grandma and Grandpa Killpack's backyard. She could not get enough of being out there with the green grass and warm air. It was still pretty cold in Casper, so both kids were content with just being outdoors. I love Audrey's hair. It was just barely long enough for me to do something with it!
