Mariah had her first soccer practice/game this weekend! She's been looking forward to it for months now since we signed her up, and she was beyond excited Saturday when we went.
But then she soon realized that there's more to soccer than kicking a ball...it involves a lot of running. And when you're sweet and non-aggresive like Mariah, unless the ball is RIGHT in front of you and the other kids are nowhere near you, you don't get to kick the ball really at all. So she decided very quickly that she didn't like it. We're giving it another try next week and if she still hates it, then we'll stop. But it so cute, I asked her "Didn't you like it at all?" and she said "well I liked the part where I got to sit down...because then I could suck my finger". :o)
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Now on to Easter. Friday I got off work early and came home to get our eggs started. No one in our family even likes or eats hard boiled eggs, and yet Jesse insisted we have a dozen for each one of the girls. So I stocked up on eggs, and went home to boil them. Put them in the pot, turned on the stove.
Then I took a nap.
I woke up to a weird smell and a sound which I thought was our neighbor dragging something along the pavement outside....but apparently it was actually the sound of 3 dozen eggs burning, popping, exploding, and making a general mess out of my kitchen.
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(I knitted these little guys a few months ago)
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Also made this about a month ago, and I have to say I'll miss seeing it displayed. It made me happy for some reason. I also had bad luck on my first try w/ these eggs, but I tried again and they turned out ok. They're real eggs, with the insides blown out. Maybe I'll find something else seasonal to hang on it and switch out each season.
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We did our hunt, went to church, then headed to Nana's for family time and another hunt:
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The girls w/ their cousin Katie (Jesse's cousin) who orchestrated the eggs & the hunt (as well as a cool craft and gift basket that the girls loved) at Nana's:
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So overall we had a lovely weekend. And Mallory was especially happy, because everyone was talking about and celebrating what she has been telling us since she started her new preschool class in the fall: "Jesus died so he can live!". :o) She loves to remind us (at random times) that we're all going to die, and we're all going to live again. And she was delighted to know that there's a whole day devoted to that concept!