Crazy Babies at the end of the day

Things tend to get a little nuts around bedtime.

First snowman

Grandma Sue made a heroic effort last weekend with an inch and a half of wet, slushy snow in a backyard full of roofing nails.

Elliot made his own mini-snowman too.

Devil Baby, Transformers etc.

Natalie has been giving us a lot of trouble at night of late. We have begun calling her the devil baby. Occasionally, when we ask her to "do the devil baby" she makes a horrible growling noise. Very funny but small payback for the middle-of-the-night scream-fests. Here she is just wearing Elliot's safety goggles.

We went to Tommy Zip's 5th birthday at Pump It Up in Glenview today. It is the "coolest place ever" according to EB. When we got home, we continued with the Transformers theme. Elliot made his own Transformer costume complete with important buttons.

We also did a bit of yard work as a team.

Finally, Elliot drew some pictures to begin planning the springtime garden plantings. Once Dad ran out of flower names and descriptions, we had to use one of Great Grandpa Buck's field guides to western wildflowers to provide new ideas.

Easter at Bonnie's

Crazy big Easter dinner at Grandma Bonnie's. Her legendary Bunny Cake returned after a 10 year + hiatus.

We also went stomping in the snow to the park after dinner. Apparently, Natalie is over her fear of slides.

Neither kid can take a credible staged photo. Must be genetic.

Kids update

Elliot continues to draw lots of pictures. Here we see Rink Bowagon, the protagonist in "The Boy Who Grew Flowers."

He and Natalie like sharing laundry basket space when reading.

Natalie likes pigtails sometimes, dressing like a tiny blueberry and eating homemade chocolate-covered donuts always.

We're in the house!!

It's been a crazy 2.5 months but we are in. Plenty of work to go but it feels good to be in the house.

Jeff and Jackson Allen and Zoe and Amy Zucker came by over the weekend to help and cheer us on. So did Susanne Cohen-Lange, Mom's old buddy from her Madison days.