Another Easter Egg Hunt

We had another egg hunt at church on Saturday, this time it was with the Lincoln Area Families With Multiples club. Another lady and I organized it and set up, so I was at church pretty much all morning. Brian and Ellen came with the kids later and we were able to have a nice morning with a fun egg hunt and crafts. Thanks to Curt who took all the action shots while I was helping with organization and watching the kids. The kids had a great time, and definitely have the idea of putting eggs into their basket. Will was a maniac stuffing them in as fast as he could find them. Grace walked around a lot, looking for only orange. By the time I found her and convinced her to get other colors, she already had 6 orange ones. Xander did a great job by himself. After the egg hunt was some crafts and they emptied their eggs, trying to eat the candy. We also took a group picture, which was a little chaotic. There were around 55 kids, 4 sets of triplets (us included), the rest were twins and siblings, and most of them under 6. Trying to get that many kids to sit still was hard.

The pictues are:

1. Grace holding her bear and treat sack. They got the bears if they found an egg that had a slip of paper in it marked "bear." We came home with three large stuffed bears, which we didn't really need!

2 & 3. Will and Xander doing crafts at a table.

4. A shot with their eggs when their hunting was done.

5, 6 & 7. Action shots during the hunt.

8. The chaotic group picture of all the multiples.

Our attitudes are better this week, glad to report. We had a pleasant weekend and not too bad of a week. Xander is a little sick, small fever, coughing and runny nose. Hopefully it won't be too bad and won't last too long. We got out quite a lot last week, playing at the museum, mall and storytime. They spent a good chunk of time at Grandma Pam's house on Friday and were there again on Sunday for dinner.

They are talking so much lately and we think everything they say the funny! The most notable change in their speech is that they are starting to describe and qualify things now. Instead of a ball, it's a "green ball" or "Xander's ball", or even more dreaded "my ball." (Everything is "mine" now. I wish they hadn't learned it, but probably had to sooner or later.) Instead of shoes, they're "new shoes" (Grace loves all her new spring clothes and shoes, by the way. What a girl!) Finally everyone knows all their colors, letters are going well. Their new favorite book is Dr. Seuss' ABC and the potty books are still popular. All the books have names now, too. They're "ABC Book" or "potty book" or "moonlight book" (O Little Town of Bethlehem, with working stars that twinkle).

So, that's about all the news for now. We are going to Omaha on Saturday to the zoo, so I will have lots of pictures and news to report next week. Thanks for checking up on us!