A Happy(ish) Easter

This is going to be a somewhat disappointing post, because I was feeling so awful yesterday that I didn't care about taking pictures (even though I knew I would regret it later).

So, our Easter was relatively good, considering that me not feeling good is really waring on ALL of us. The girls looked darling in their new Easter outfits, and we all made it out the door and to our worship gathering on time (well, two hours early, but that was on time for us since Carey's in the band). Our church choir sang and Apple wanted to be in it so badly. She just loves to sing and every week she tries to make it up onto the stage. She kept saying "me choir...later". I told her she could be in the choir when she is a little older. Anyway, she sure did sing along with them. Then, when the service ended she said (LOUDLY) "Bummer". She's a funny little one.

After the worship gathering we went home and took naps, then headed out to meet our families at the park. Sidenote: Thankfully, both my mom and father in law took lots of pictures. Hopefully I'll get some of them and can share them with y'all! We had a fun bbq, gave the girls their Easter baskets, and let them have a little Easter egg hunt. Rayley figured out quickly that it was what was in the eggs that was important, so she would find an egg, empty the contents into her basket, then put the egg back together and back on the ground. So, poor Apps kept finding empty eggs. It wasn't long before she figured out that she should shake the eggs before she put them in her basket.

A New Post...FINALLY!

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. I have a sinus infection and that coupled with my morning-all-day sickness has pretty much left me out of commission. So, we haven't really done anything "blog worthy" lately. I figured I could at least post a few pictures, though.

The girls are doing well. They are both acting up a little since they haven't had a lot of good quality time, with me feeling so awful. They're hanging in there and doing relatively well, anyway!

Okay, to the pictures:


Bubbles are essential to the girls baths, because if they can see any dirt or hair in the bath, they FREAK out. The bubbles hide all of that.


The girls made St. Patrick's Day hats at daycare!


Playing with their new bubble toys!

Happy Hollow:)

Before you start, this is a really long post. It's my longest one ever. Just FYI!


Today we went with our friends, the Orlandos, to Happy Hollow, a park/zoo over in San Jose. It's geared toward young kids (I would say maybe 7 and under) and is small, and really fun. We've been wanting to take the girls for forever, and it finally worked out. It was so fun to go with the Orlandos, too! They are GREAT!

The first thing we saw was a jaguar. He kept pacing in front of the glass window, and he did not look happy. Apple put her hand up on the glass as he walked by and he tried to bite at it. It was awfully hard not to react, but we just told her he was saying hello. (Later we figured out he was waiting to be fed, which is why he was so unhappy.) Rayley was completely unsure of him.




From there we moved on to the meerkats. No one was very afraid of those. They are so adorable.



The Lemurs were next, which everyone loved. One of them was moving around a lot, and he kept jumping onto the side of his cage, and onto a big rock in the middle. I thought they were hilarious because they would sit down, just like humans do, on their bottoms with their legs out in front of them. Then, they stick their arms out to the sides and look up, like they are worshiping the sun!




Part of the zoo has a donkey, miniature horse, sheep, these weird cow-like things, and goats. You can pet these animals, and you can even go in the area with the goats and feed them. There are gumball-like machines, where you put in a quarter and get some goat food. We didn't have any quarters, but Uncle Dominick came to the rescue and collected pieces of goat food off the ground (that other kids had dropped). He collected like $7 worth! Anyway, Rayley actually did better with feeding the goats than Apps did. She got so nervous!



After the Zoo part of Happy Hollow, we took a lunch break at some picnic tables. Then we went to the Park part. There were a few rides, a bunch of little play structures, and a puppet show theater. We ended up going on just one ride (well, the kids did) but they loved it so much they rode it twice. Here they all are on the Mini Putt Putt Cars!

Apps


Baby Nicoley-oley


Ray


Natalie Jean

Scooters!

We got the girls scooters and they love them. I had seen a little boy riding one at the park and I thought he looked so young to be riding a scooter. I asked him mom and he was 19 months old. I thought there was no way the girls would be able to do it, but the little boy shared and they both tried it and loved it. They are really cute on their scooters (until they start running into the cars in the driveway)!

From "Mischeivious Sleep-Fighter" to this:

Happy Valentines Day!

Rock Out!

Carey has started a new after dinner tradition! After dinner, when I have my "quiet" alone time (doing dishes in the kitchen) Carey goes into the living room and says "let's rock out" and the girls run in there and do just that! Lately it's been to Bon Jovi! The last few nights, as soon as Carey says it, Rayley takes off all her clothes and "rocks out" naked, which makes me think it will be a LOOOOOOOONG time before we allow her to go to a concert!