Favorite shirt, favorite outfits

Lucy's Favorite Book, "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns [Abraham Lincoln]

Lucy gets this book out all of the time to read.  She likes the pictures and asks who they are.  She was reading while Bryan was working and started asking lots of questions:

• Where is he [Abraham Lincoln]?
• Why is he lying on the bed?  What happened?
• Is heaven invisible?
• Are we getting back to kid or adult in heaven?
• Who are those people in white t-shirts? [Answer: photo on the wall of my Dad's baseball team when he was a boy]

Easter Resurrection Eggs & Table

We're doing the resurrection eggs.  During the month before Easter, Hope the Bunny hides an egg.  When the girls find it, they bring it to me, and I give them a piece of candy, and then we tell the story that matches the symbol inside the egg (the story of Jesus' life, death and resurrection - our Hope).  I also use the Miss Pattycake Eggstravaganza DVD, picture book and songs.

Easter Table (there's candy in those hens for when they find a resurrection egg, and we tell a story)

Abby showed me where all the resurrection eggs are hidden.  It's a secret.  That's where I hid the eggs that I [Hope the Bunny] hide.  

Hope the Bunny (and the eggs)

They found Hope the Bunny and an egg (on the train)

The after-bath warm up

Pig Giraffe

Lucy

Crawling and Peek-A-Boo

* That's my yellow doll from when I was a little girl that Liv is crawling towards

Playing Doctor

Liv sometimes prefers to hold her bottle with her feet

Writing down all the ingredients for cookies

Pizza lunch with cousins and SueSue

Pulled up to sitting position by herself for 1st time (and proud)

Liv

Too soon for swimsuits?

BU Health Camp

Finger Painting

Abby

Self portraits by Lucy

Trying to crawl

Liv

Fire

Everyone wants to be like Big Sister

Bunny Kisses Book

Valentines Day ... God is Love

Our "Love Is" tree with heart ornaments.  "Love is patient and kind.  Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.  Love does not demand its own way.  Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.  It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.  Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.

Valentine's Heart Ornaments

We made ornaments with the verses from 1 Corinthians 13.  Love is...

Sitting up

Liv

5-Year Wellness Check-Up

Convincing her that there were no shots this year was tough since she remembered the 4 horrible shots from last year.  Stats: 36.4 lbs (25th percentile), 41" tall (25th percentile), and 82/50 blood pressure.

Lucy's instructions to me for her birthday party

"Everybody should wear *these, and the decorations should be good."  I agree.

*these = birthday party hats

Cousins