Two of a Kind

Chicken Round-Up

Max loves his chickens!  He puts them to bed almost every night.

Toddler Bed

With a little one on the way that will need a crib to sleep in we had been debating what to do about Max's sleeping situation.  Do we let him stay in his crib and get another one or should we try to move him to a toddler bed?  Turns out he made the decision for us a few weeks ago when he suddenly decided he didn't want to sleep in his crib anymore.  After trying everything we could think of to get him to sleep, we removed the front of the crib and placed the mattress on the floor.  Sure enough that did the trick.  So here we are, three weeks later, taking down the crib and replacing it with a toddler bed!

Being the good little helper that he is, he wanted to be involved with this project.

Dad showed him how to use an allen wrench.

After he assembled the head and foot boards he laid out the supports for the mattress.

Ricky has experienced enough of our projects to know the best thing to do is find a comfortable spot and stay out of the way.

The moment of truth.  He ran right to it and crawled in!

I think he likes it!  

Sand Table

First, dad showed Max how to scoop sand into the pail.

Then he showed him how to build a sand castle.

And Max showed dad how to destroy it.

If you couldn't tell from the little smirk, he's very pleased with himself.

Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Easter, everyone!  We are expecting rain tomorrow so we had our Easter egg hunt a day early.

  

He was really good at finding the eggs in the grass.

Ricky kept an eye out for the Easter Bunny while Max collected eggs.

Found him!

We put the bunny back in his hiding place so Max could find him, too.

"Hey everyone, look at my basket of eggs!"

He was very proud of all the eggs he found.

But wait, the fun's not over!  There's little chocolate bunnies in these eggs!

Giving it the taste test...

Yummy!

And just like that we've created a chocolate addict.

"Open this egg for me!"