Happy Easter!

Last Thursday we had some of little A's friends over for a Tea Party. It was so fun and so adorable!

The girls were all so excited. They came dressed in their best tea party attire. :)  Little A was thrilled when I let her wear my pearls and one of my sparkly bracelets! Little A got a bloody lip at one point. She gets so excited at these kinds of things that she doesn't watch where she's going. Poor girl. As usual she ate her little heart out.

Before the tea party little A tried to pour the water into everyone's cups and ended up pouring it on my phone. I got it all cleaned up and asked her to leave the water alone, she dumped it again while I was taking care of the phone, so she got a time out. She was in time out when her friends arrived, lol!

She's really started to get into things more. She's never been a super curious child, and rarely got into things she wasn't supposed to. Now all of a sudden she's decided she's going to branch out. For example, the other day I was in the shower. Usually she plays in my room while I shower. When I got out she wasn't there, and she was being really quiet. I was immediately suspicious! I heard some wrappers and figured she'd gotten into the candy. I was right. She climbed up on her little table, climbed onto the counter, got into the cupboard and pulled the glass candy jar down. Then she proceeded to eat half of the contents of the candy jar! She had to sit in time out the entire time I got ready. I also moved her table away from the counter so she can't climb up anymore. I laughed pretty hard, but it was also scary, she really could have hurt herself.

I made a sock puppet for my primary class to talk about resurrection. Little A loved it! I'm excited that she's starting to get old enough for crafty things!

We also made Grandad a card for his birthday. She was very pleased with how it came out.

After dinner one night Daddy and Little A played Play Doh. He's such a good Daddy!

Allan got this cute picture of her playing with the fridge magnets while I was cleaning up the kitchen. She'll sit there and say "I", "I", "I" over and over again. Every now and then she'll say another letter, but it's usually "I". If you ask her to find a specific letter though she can. There are only a couple that she gets mixed up!

Little A is up to almost 70 words! She's doing a great job, and we are so proud of her! The other night in the bathtub she was playing with her sponge letters and numbers and she picked up R and said "R", and then picked up "A" and said "A".

We had a fun Easter. We went to the Easter Egg hunt. It was right by our house this year. We weren't able to go last year because of my surgery, so we were really excited to go again.

Just like last time she found a spot in the middle of a bunch of eggs and sat down. Then she slowly picked them up and put them into her basket, occasionally inspecting them to see what was inside! She was thrilled with all of the candy, of course!

My visiting teacher, and neighbor, also brought her an Easter basket.

We colored eggs. Little A was big enough to help a little this year. She loved the stickers and the glitter.

 We had a casualty so Daddy and Little A ate it.

The next morning the Easter bunny came. Little A had a blast hunting down all the eggs the Easter Bunny hid. She got more candy, a Little Critter Eater book, and a set of gardening tools. She asked all morning to go outside to dig in the dirt with them!

We did finally make it outside just before lunch time. Little A had a blast digging in the dirt and helping Daddy water the garden. She has her own watering can, but she really wanted to use the big one; she had a bit of trouble with it though, ha!

Our winter garden has taken off. We've loved having fresh lettuce. The carrots aren't ready yet, but we're looking forward to those as well! (Also, Allan is such a handsome stud!)

 It was so nice outside that we decided to have a picnic!

We had planned on having AG down for a visit this week, but instead there was a really, really bad snowstorm, so we couldn't go get her. We also had to cancel Little A's ENT appointment. Bummer. Her ears are looking good though. We finally bought an otoscope so we can see what's going on. Then Little A got sick, and we just kind of laid around until Thursday.

On Thursday we went to Baby Animal Days with AG and her mom. It's always so fun to be with them! Little A loves all of the attention too! We saw baby bears, calfs, lambs, Sheltland ponies, goats, turtles, puppies, bunnies, Bison, and pigs. Little A's favorite were the baby pigs. (She gets that from her daddy.) She kept putting straw over them to "tuck them in", ha! We got caught in the rain and Little A thought that was the best thing ever!

Afterward we went and got some yummy donuts, went to the mall to get some clothes for A, and then ate at a Chinese place in the mall, which was actually really, really good! The Chinese man behind the counter fell in love with Little A and kept saying how beautiful she is. :)

Then we went back to their place so we could chat and play with AG's Dad for a while. AG got a tub of ring pops down so little A could take some home. I told little A to put some in my purse. That girl is too smart for her own good, lol! She dumped the entire contents of the tub into my purse! Ha! She was pretty disappointed when I made her put most of it back.

Little A was pretty excited about her new shoes. The next morning she put on one of each new shoe, ha!

We had a wonderful time watching General Conference this weekend. We are so grateful to the men and women who dedicate so much of their lives to the Lord. I am grateful for the reminder of our Savior's infinite atonement, and God and Christ's deep love for all of us.