Dying Eggs

To continue the Easter themed weekend, we decorated eggs on Sunday.  It was, well...  I'll let you decide.

Starting out happy and full of hope for how awesome this will be.

Can you tell that Elle's excited?

We did some dying, then some stickers and egg wraps (or whatever those shrink wrap things are called).  Elle kept up with being happy and excited.  

Scarlett, well, she tried to put on a happy face for the camera.  

But I caught the REAL experience.  Yes, those are REAL TEARS.  There were lots of them.  She dropped and cracked TWO.  Elle dropped and cracked zero.  Easter is RUINED.  She tried to patch them, but the cracked one was her FAVORITE SHADE OF GREEN for goodness sakes.  There was no consoling her.  

City Park Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday was the Easter Egg Hunt at City Park.  We went with Tonya and the kids since the guys were in a course that morning.  The girls had a blast!  First up, Easter Bunny!  Then they played in Storyland and then hunted Easter Eggs.

Loving the E.B.

Decorating their egg cartons

Storyland!

And finally, hunting some eggs.

Breakfast with the Tooth Fairy!

The girls and I went to have breakfast with the Tooth Fairy this morning at the dental school.  It was really cute.  Elle was totally in love with the Tooth Fairy.  She followed her everywhere and had to give her a kiss before we could leave (which Scarlett later informed me was "totally embarrassing!")

Check out that totally cute fruit dolphin! 

We had to buy a new tooth pillow (Scarlett has another one loose that's coming out soon!)

They had stations set up to practice brushing, flossing and to practice choosing healthy foods. 

The girls made a picture frame and then got their faces painted.

And of course....meeting the TOOTH FAIRY!  She has molars on her dress...I thought it was hilarious!

Elle's Storyland field trip

This week was Elle's field trip to Storyland.  The weather was a little chilly, but at least we had sun.  The kids had a blast.  Elle has been asking me for weeks "is my field trip tomorrow?"  We even joined a few classmates at Chickfila for lunch after the field trip, so it was like Elle's dream day :o)

Cousin breakfast

Last weekend we had brunch with Cameron's cousin Lisa who was in town from Washington.  The girls of course instantly loved her!  

Courtney came to NOLA!

Courtney, Bryan and Zoey flew in for the day today.  We were unsuccessful in showing them the french quarter since for some reason it was packed out with no parking.  They got a driving tour of that :o)  We ended up stopping for lunch, going to Storyland and getting beignets before they had to be back at the airport.  It was a fun day and so great to see them!

 

Audubon Weekend

We hit 2 out of 3 of the Audubon attractions this weekend since our membership is expiring soon.  Yesterday we took advantage of the only non-rainy day of the whole Mardi Gras vacation week and went to the zoo with Tonya, Chloe and Grayson.  It was a little chilly and lots of the attractions were closed, but we were all thrilled just to be out of the house!

Elle and Chloe riding the ducks

The elephants were closed, so all we had to see on this side of the zoo were some goats and sheep.  The kids still liked watching the goat eat the tree though!

All the kids on the Komodo dragon.  Elle pet his back and said "hey little dude" then kissed him on his big brass lizard lips.  

Trying to get a good picture!

Today we went down to the aquarium.  They just opened a new Maya Reef exhibit today.  It was a pretty cool new twist on the first section.  Here's the girls with some lion fish.  

We went out to see the birds and they were CRAZY today!  I kept having to pull them out of my purse.  I guess they were scavenging for crumbs in there.  It was really freaking Scarlett out!  

Elle was getting upset that she couldn't hold a bird.  She kept running after them, trying to get a Hulk grip on their whole body.  Can't blame the things for flying from her!