"It's a monkey!"

This is Cassidy's first three word sentence!! She woke up this morning and I brought her in our room. She looked across the room to the picture frame on the dresser, which had a little monkey on it, and exclaimed, "It's a monkey!" She has been saying other little sentences like "Where's Daddy?" "Where's Awecks (Alex)?" and "Where's binky?" but I thought this one was worth blogging about. Way to go, sweetie!

More Easter Pics

Alex checking out the eggs in his basket.
Pretty bows now stay in Cassidy's hair for .33 seconds.

Cute little bunny.

Alex enjoying the Easter Egg Hunt in our town.

Celebrating Easter

We had a great Easter weekend! My mom and dad drove down to babysit the kids while John and I attended the JMU ROTC military ball on Friday night....and here's the kicker - we treated ourselves to a night without the kids by staying at a local Bed & Breakfast. It was pure bliss to be served breakfast in your room, not have to fix breakfast for anyone else (or wipe yogurt off of the floor) and watch the news! Thanks Mom & Dad!

Grammy & Pap Pap smiling but the kids not cooperating for the camera on Easter morning.

Alex enjoying his new Leapster from the Easter Bunny.

Cassidy and Grammy playing.

Camp Horizons

A family in our Sunday School class works at a place called Camp Horizons, only 15 minutes from our house. They hosted a very fun gathering there this afternoon. John and Cassidy weren't able to come since it was Cassidy's naptime.



First, we fed the ponies and brushed their fur. Alex even kissed one of them on the lips.


Then, we gathered around the campfire for s'mores. Heavenly delicious.



After a wagon ride tour of the camp, we went canoeing. Alex was not much help but we made it back to shore and had a great time!


The lil' guy was all tuckered out by the time we got home.


We arrived home to John and Cassidy mowing the lawn together. Cassidy's holding a little pink toy camera and she's taking my picture as I'm taking hers!

Awake from Hibernation

The beautiful weather this weekend signalled to me that it was time to awake from my hibernation this winter. Yes, hibernation. Why else would I not have blogged in 2 whole months? I awoke to realize Cassidy can now climb on everything...the couch, the highchair, even the big ladder up to Alex's big slide (yikes!). Here are the kids before church today so you can see how much they've grown while we were all hibernating:

Some quotable quotes

One day Alex was trying to throw his little frisbee to me, and it didn't go where he wanted it to go. He said, "Argh, Mom, the frisbee wouldn't listen to me!"

One time Cassidy was very interested in playing with whatever toys Alex was playing with. She was being particularly diligent, despite Alex's attempts to divert her attention. Alex asked, "Mom, how do you make Cassidy go away?"

At Christmastime, Alex would ask to go look at the "activity scene." (nativity scene)

Also around Christmastime, Alex asked, "Does Jesus live in our neighborhood?" "Does Jesus have a car?" "Where does God live?" I told him that Jesus lives in our hearts and God lives up in the sky, or maybe I said up with the stars. So, one time we were doing a puzzle of the solar system with all the moons and stars in the background. Alex said, "Mom, when we put the puzzle together, you show me where God lives."

Catching Up

I haven't blogged in about three weeks so here is the super-condensed version! We had a fabulous Christmas at home, followed by a nice getaway to Deep Creek Lake, MD, and rounded out with a few great days in Pittsburgh visiting family and friends. I will let the pictures tell the story :

The kids pal-in' around on Christmas morning at home.

Alex's first game of Chutes and Ladders, at the condo in Deep Creek. Grammy, Pap Pap, and Aunt Julie sure do have a lot of patience.

The "mountain coaster" at Wisp Resort in Deep Creek. It was super fun - Alex loved it and Cassidy really, really wanted to try it! She kept trying to walk right up to the front of the line and get in the cars.

The kids had a blast with Aunt Julie. She and Alex were bunk mates at Deep Creek. Alex just couldn't figure out why Julie didn't want to get out of bed at 7am with him. "But, it's daytime!" he would say.

Alex being his normal goofy self in front of the magestic Falling Water. We stopped here on our drive from Deep Creek to Pittsburgh since John had never seen it and always wanted to.

Alex enjoying the "water play" floor at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. We aslo went to the Carnegie Science Center and highly recommend both places! Oh, and John and I got in free to both for showing our military ID's!

Pap Pap and Alex making a controlled descent.

Cassidy and Mommy eyeing up the course. Cassidy loved sledriding just as much as Alex did! (by the way, I just tried for the past 30 mintues to get this picture oriented the right way, so you'll just have to turn your head)