Princesses looking so cute

My Aunt Kk let me know one day, that before her grandkids moved back East she wanted to have a little princess photo shoot with Lily, Olivia, her Grandkids Tori and Logan and my cousin’s daughter H.  Tori has a bunch of Disney Princess dresses and they would be too big for Lily and Livi to play in, but they would work for some pictures.  H had just been in a school play and Kk made her a princess like dress and Logan has a Prince outfit so they would all look so cute together.  So one day last month I lugged Lily over to my Grandparents house and we got all the kids dressed up.  Of course Lily was in a extra clingy mood the day that Kk decided to do the pictures, in fact none of the little kids were in that great or cooperative of moods.  It’s funny how that happens.

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Trying to do a Princess dance. See that arm pointing at me? There was a lot of that.

After a few pictures in the front yard, we went out back to find rocks to use as props.

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Look at those little princess tootsies. So cute.

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H is pure royalty.

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Livi and Logan looking sweet.

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Major Princess meltdown happening here. Taken by Kk.

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Watching the other kids play together.

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My sweet Princess Pickle Pants.

All in all we got a few good pictures, but we found out that it is really really hard to get that many kiddos to look at the same place and stay still and smile and not pick their noses…

Egg hunts

I know I’m a little late to the Easter post party, but better late then never.

We aren’t religious so we treat Easter pretty much the same as we do Christmas, it’s just something fun to do.  We also don’t give Lily much sugar so she got no candy and didn’t miss it.

I bought Lil a little Easter basket and the color dyes for eggs sometime in early March, I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything. The day before Easter around 7pm (nothing like waiting till the last minute anyway) I got out a bunch of leftover birthday party cups and the vinegar and set to work activating the dye tablets. Waldo put Lil in her chair and put her art smock (one of my old t-shirts) on and as I grabbed the first batch of dyes to take to the table I spilled one. We knew this was a sign of things to come. Waldo dropped a egg in a cup and right then and there we decided this sucked. I grabbed all the cups (after cleaning up the pink dye from the white counter) and tossed them in the sink and went to my art box and grabbed the new Crayola paint I bought. I put some paint in a few of the leftover party cups and I showed Lily that it was okay to paint the eggs. While I was getting the paint Lily and Waldo tried using crayons to color the eggs (bust) and markers (worked good) so some of the eggs had quite the decorations on them. Lily and I had fun painting the dozen eggs I boiled.

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We take egg painting seriously

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The new art cover for the table needed some color - apparentelly.

Easter morning or more accurately early afternoon I went out and hid the eggs and then got Lily all dressed up in the cute dress my Dad and step-Mom bought her. We all went outside and the egg hunt began.

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One of Lily's painted eggs.

I was a little worried that the paint wouldn’t dry on the eggs, but it dried very nicely.

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She found her first egg.

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And another egg.

The eggs that got wet did bleed a little of their paint, but it’s washable so not a big deal.

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Oh look, there's one in the fern.

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And in the tree.

Once she found them all (the dozen painted eggs and a few empty plastic eggs), she and I went inside and Waldo hid them again.

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Kitty's helping.

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There's a egg in with those rocks, somewhere.

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Checking out her haul.

We went inside after this and she played and played with the eggs. It was really cute. She wasn’t thrilled when the painted eggs kept breaking, but she was a good sport about throwing them away.

I hope everyone had a good Easter, no matter how you celebrate.

Piano girl

Lily found this little toy piano at my Dad’s house and thought it was very cool.

It’s too bad that she gets distracted by Sesame Street.

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