A Sticky Easter

Somehow, someway, 

Waverly managed to get silly putty stuck in her hair.

The Easter bunny did not see this coming.

In case you're wondering, 

getting silly putty out of a child's hair is no easy task. 

To her everlasting credit, Wavy did not shed a tear as 4 grown women tried 

everything to get this out of her hair.  

Picking out silly putty wasn't any easier with heat, nor ice.  

Shampoo and/or conditioner and even coconut oil wasn't much help either.  

It took patience and fingernails to just 

 pick out the pieces as best we could.  

(After giving up, we decided that it may just wash out after several washes. 

This wasn't the case, and we ended up cutting a chunk of hair about an inch or two from the roots.  This is still (as of September!) growing out!)

For her patience, Wavy was awarded a grape Popsicle, 

and best of all, 

her very own Easter bunny!

Wavy was beyond ecstatic to have her own live rabbit, 

and Harlan was just a thrilled with a toy monster truck!

After thoroughly exhausting the poor rabbits, 

we let the egg hunt begin!

Never a dull moment at Pappy's house!

The kids found dozens of eggs,

and as always, 

had a wonderful time!

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

Hoppin' down the bunny trail...

Hippity, Hoppin', Easter's on its way!  

Bringin' every girl and boy
Baskets full of Easter joy
Things to make your Easter bright and gay

Oh! here comes Peter Cottontail

Hoppin' down the bunny trail...

Hippity hoppity, happy Easter Day!

A Silver Anniversary

Happy 25th wedding anniversary to 

Uncle George and Aunt Angie!

We had a great time at their beautiful anniversary party.

Ellie & Wavy are the best of friends. 

They are so cute playing together, 

and both just adore each other.

Silly faces!

 This is one of my favorite pictures of the year!

Just a photo that captions such personality in my little one!

For all my treasures

To improve our time getting ready in the mornings, 

the kids have good morning charts.  For each task (brushing teeth, go potty, hug mommy, etc)

they earn a sticker.  When their page gets full of stickers, 

they 'cash' that in for a prize!

Their prize today is a wooden treasure chest for each to decorate and paint. 

Then they can hide their own treasures inside!

We love paint, and all of the different colors. 

They were very intent on layering the colors, so the boxes turned out more brown and orange 

but you can still see different colors peeking through. 

The paint pallet worked great!

Just a strong piece of cardboard, and the kids were able to share the colors well. 

I'll have to remember this for all of our future projects.

Once the treasure chests are dry, 

the kids get to hunt for treasure (rocks and shells) and keep it in their rooms. 

It was a great prize for a full sheet of good morning stickers!

Get 'scrappy' with it!

Ah, a future scrapbooker!

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Wavy loves any type of craft or project.  

One of her birthday presents was a scrapbook and all the fixin's!

We printed out some of her pictures, 

including some of her favorite things and a whole roll of 

old school film that she took pictures of all by herself. 

Now she gets to work on her book!

As a scrapper myself, I had lots of scissors, stickers and paper 

from my scrapping days.  Wavy was happy to play with her new stuff as well as some from Mom's stash of goodies.  

I think we'll be working on this project for a month or so, 

but she's loving every minute of it!