No Time...

I've been too busy for my liking lately. I feel like I haven't seen the boys in days.  Last weekend we ran around all Saturday like chickens with our heads cut off.  We had music class, naps, cooking, a wedding shower, and then another party at night for my boss's birthday.  It was all fun--just crazy hectic.  I wish I'd had more time to enjoy the parties.  Then last Sunday I had to work all day at our college fair.  My feet were killing me after 9:30-5:15 running around.  It made me realize how sedentary my normal job is!

Anyway, I've been negligent about writing, but because I've been so busy, there hasn't been that much fun going on either.  I had the day after Easter (April 21) off this year.  I took the boys to Lowe's to get some free paint samples with coupons I had.  They discovered the fountain in the outdoor garden area and LOVED it.  I had to go outside to the fountain, inside to the lawnmowers (because they are obsessed with lawnmowers), then to get my paint, then back to the fountain, and then by the lawnmowers again before I could get to the registers.

Adi continues to be fascinated with his lawnmower, although he broke the second one he had, too.  I guess a $15 plastic toy can only be expected to last so long.  He loved this toy so much he literally wore both of them out...In the afternoon it was beautiful (one of the few nice spring days we've had), so we went to Mini's and took a walk.

Then the boys played with the Fisher Price toys.  They love them.

One day last week, a camel appeared on the Milton campus.  It was "Hump Day" and the seniors got a camel as a senior prank...it was actually a pretty cute idea.

This picture is from the wedding shower we went to.  Sebastian found his girlfriend Caroline immediately and again just parked himself in front of her.  He couldn't take his eyes off her.

Mini stayed with the boys before we went to my boss's birthday party at night.  She read to Sebastian, who was so happy to have his Mini read to him.

 Too bad Carlos is busy on his phone instead of reading to Adrian.  :-(  Boo.

Happy Easter 2014

Happy Easter 2014!!  We had a great day today!

First, to get us in the Easter spirit, some artwork from the boys.  They painted some Easter pictures with Natalie last week.  I love them!

Natalie bought them cute little bunnies (I discovered them when I put them to bed Friday night) and left us some gorgeous-smelling hyacinths on the kitchen counter.

The Easter Bunny was extremely generous to the boys, but I think he was probably also pretty thrifty.  Like I'll bet he got some of the stuff at Saver's, from Mini's attic, and Walmart...The Reese's bunnies are from Mini and the bubble mower is from Papa.

The boys painted the jelly-bean box with Natalie.  The Easter Bunny used it for some Hot Wheels cars.

Inside the large egg are some more Hot Wheels cars.

The boys were overjoyed when they came down the stairs.  I told Sebastian the night before that the Easter Bunny was coming and that he'd bring treats.  I thought he didn't even understand.  Well, the first thing he said when he woke up was "Easter Bunny!  Treeeeeeats!"  So I guess he got it!

Sebastian went straight for the Match Box cars.

But then he saw the Cars boxes...look at his face!

He nearly hyperventilated over each box.  Click here for a video of it.

He got Chick and another race car (came together), the "new" Lightening McQueen (after Ramon "paint's him up right"), Flo, Sheriff, and Sarge.

Meanwhile, Adi was thriiiiiiiiiilled beyond believe with his bubble lawnmower.

Here's a link to a video of the boys begging Papa to open their toys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj4vXnkmrUI

Adi mowed the "lawn" back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...I thought he was going to put ruts in the floor.  He went through two containers of bubbles before we left the house at 8:45AM! Click here for a video of Adrian.

Sebastian was so happy with his new cars, the he didn't even ask to watch McQueen...he was content just to line up his cars over and over and over again.

 Adi put on his McQueen sunglasses to mow.

Even Puppy got in on the mowing.

At 9am we went to Nick and Lorna's for an egg hunt with their family.  Sebastian immediately started hitting on Caroline.  He was in love with her...he followed her around.  At one point he even tried to go with her into the bathroom.  She wasn't really enjoying his attention...poor girl--she couldn't shake him.

I think she's trying to escape him here...

The egg hunt was AWESOME.  The boys had such a great time.  They actually got the concept of looking for the eggs and had fun searching.  I should have known that the Paone family would know how to do an egg hunt right...they had the best prizes inside the eggs I've ever seen.  The boys got money, candy, a coupon for a free appetizer at Texas Road House, and bags of gold coins...they traded in slips of paper they found in some of the eggs for their prizes.  It was very clever!  I'll have to copy them for when we do egg hunts at our house in the future.  As always, we loved seeing everyone.  We felt bad because we left right after the egg hunt and came home to get ready for Auntie Mimi's house.

You'll notice in this picture that Adi took his lawnmower with him to the Paone's house...he hauled it with him as he searched for eggs.

At Auntie Mimi's Adi also had his lawnmower.  He had fun sitting with Mini on the stairs.  He kept touching the "troll toes" on a statue of a foot my Auntie Mimi has.

 Adi also played with Nana.

The boys had a good time playing cars and pushing the lawnmower around Tia Mimi's condo.  We ate like kings and queens.  Kitchen and Auntie Carol brought the boys McQueen sippy cups with McQueen tattoos inside.  Inside the cups there was also chocolate (their favorite!) and the Corvette race car from Cars that Papa loves along with his pit crew manager (not sure of his name).  They were happy to add those two cars to their growing collection.  Baby James was adorable as always.  I just realized I didn't get any pictures of him.  Bummer.

Kitchen brought the electric whoopie cushion, and Sebastian had a good time laughing about how all his cars were pooping.  Here's the video.

We left around 2:30 and the boys napped for about 40 minutes on the ride home.  They were CRANKY PANTS when we got home.  They were all out of sorts and didn't know what they wanted.  Eventually they got the crank out of their systems and were fine the rest of the afternoon.  They went to bed without a peep at 6:30 when we put them down!  Exhausted!

Oh, before dinner, I went to put more bubbles in the lawnmower.  The bubble solution leaked all over the floor...and then the bubble wheel wouldn't turn so it wouldn't blow bubbles.  Adrian wore it out in less than one day???  He didn't mistreat it in any way...so after he was in bed, Carlos took it back to Walmart to exchange it.  Luckily they gave us a new one and Adi will be happy tomorrow.

I have the day off tomorrow to spend with the boys!  I'm excited--I only wish it weren't April vacation week.  All of our favorite places are going to be crowded.