Neighbors

Have I told y'all that Jim and I love where we live? We live on a quiet cul de sac surrounded by other kids. Tonight we got together with three families on our street to sort of celebrate the spring weather and the return of one family to our neighborhood after they renovated their house. We had three two year olds, one 5 month old, and a 5 year old and 6 year old. All those kids plus a sandbox and bubbles and they were happy. We grilled burgers and just had a ball! Here are a few pics... The older girls are our next door neighbors - Mary Ryan (6) and Dorsey (5). They are holding Annabelle who just returned to our neighborhood now that their house is finished. The picture of James and dad does shows off James' new hair cut, which he got today. It fails to show just how dirty he was. Someone brought a watermelon and James was covered in pink juice and dirt but he loved it!

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More Easter fun... In keeping with our indoctrination of Star Wars (James can now say R2D2 - Jim is so proud), I found a Star Wars easter egg decorating kit. I thought my boys would love it and they did. After we dyed the eggs-ruining a shirt of James' in the process, oh well-there were Star Wars stickers to put on the eggs. See all the stickers? I thought they turned out cute. What was more cute was James trying to decide which sticker to put on an egg next. He would study the sheet of stickers and say "Hmmm" and sometimes "Hmmm" again before picking one. Do Jim and I do this? Someone tell me - I don't know where he got this but we thought it was funny.

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

There are a ton of children on our street and so last weekend we had our second annual street Easter Egg Hunt. Last year we had three babies born on our end of the street alone and then two more expected this year! Kids everywhere! We hunted eggs across the street from our house because Ms. Barbara has a nice flat yard. Here are a few pics from the hunt. James needed little instruction. We explained eggs = candy and he was off!!

The first photo is of our friend Anne and her dad Lewis. Anne is a few months younger than James but her mommy is pregnant again and due just a few days before me. Anne is great fun and comes over for playdates with James. Usually when dad Lewis comes over for a playdate, I mean male bonding time, with Jim, i.e. Lewis wants to watch sports on our big TV...

Learning to climb

So last weekend Aunt Kelly ("Aunt Keke") and I got to have our girly baby shower for the two little girls on their way. We had a great time at the shower and got some wonderful things. I can't wait to wash everything and put them away for Mary Martin to wear. Anyway, lest you think that it was completely a girls weekend, James got to play at this fun playground at a Joe's crab shack with Gee and Aunt Dianne, after we meet them for lunch. Still don't know why Joe's crab shack had a playground but we enjoyed it! Jim taught James how to climb down on the stairs. And yes I know the video is turned sideways - I forgot to turn it for the video.