Easter Weekend/Spring Break

Be excited! I have found LOTS of time after National Boards to catch up on much needed things. My house is Spring Cleaned, I have planted lots of flowers, read a few books, and played in the dirt! Here is a rundown of the last week. Good Friday Clinton and Daphne took me to Charlotte to take my big test. We met Lori there to have some coffee/hot chocolate, and we watched the President go by. It was pretty funny, the police kept yelling at Daphne for being on the grass, even though she was BARELY on it and she is not even TWO! Daddy and Daphne went to the Discovery Place while I took my test, then we went home. We got to play with Aunt Tiff for awhile. Saturday we had an Easter Egg Hunt with all the neighbor kids. It was a lot of fun. Daphne didn't want to keep her dress on, so she took it off by the end of the day and ran around with her diaper on. She's called "Running Bare" for a reason! :) After the egg hunt, we went in and dyed eggs. That was an interesting experience. Sunday we went to mimi and paw's to eat lunch after church. Daphne and I played in the creek, looking for salamanders. The rest of the week has been spent cleaning, planting, and playing with Daphne and Bryson. He's been over here playing, they have kept each other busy!
Mommy helping Daphne plant her watermelon.

These will be yummy later in the summer! (If she can keep the seeds in the pots!)

Easter Egg hunting...or following the boys so they can find the eggs and put them in her basket.

She had Mason and Landon wrapped around her finger.

Found one mommy!

This one tried to eat all her candy before she went to play!

The dyed eggs

The Easter Bunny came! Look at all this cool stuff

We love the bunny

finding Easter eggs at paw's house

Playing in the creek with mommy. We found two salamanders, one big and one small.

She was getting good at picking up the rocks. A tomboy in the making :)

See our salamanders?

We HAD to show paw our findings

The water was a little chilly, but we were jumping in it anyway :) Yes, I can be a kid again!

We finally had to get out when we saw a baby snake in the water. It looks big in the picture, but I have it zoomed way in. I made it mad by poking it with a stick :)

Daphne and Bryson playing golf and water guns.

They are too funny together!

oh wow!

So it's been a while since we have updated. Needless to say, I've been busy with National Boards stuff. Luckily, April 2nd will be the end of it all! I have turned in my portfolio and go take the test next Friday. I have done all I can for this, so hopefully it will go well. We'll just have to wait and find out...in stinking November! Daphne and I made a trip to Raleigh in February to see Aunt Tiff. We took Chandler along with us. We have done lots of playing outside on pretty days, which we love. We have been to the Dr. for our 18 month check up. Daphne is 30 inches long and 22 pounds. We are finally back on the growth curve...in the 10th percentile range...but hey, at least we are on it this time :) Aunt Emilee has come over quite a bit to work on National Boards stuff together. We figured the buddy system would power us through! Daphne "Mike Tyson" Eddings has started having more good days than bad at daycare. Apparantly she likes to be the enforcer around the baby room. Her paw paw has given her an enormous (and i'm putting that lightly) bag of Easter candy, including every color/shape of Peeps you can find. So, we are using these as treats for good days. We also went to dinner with the long lost Stacey and George and went bowling with them and aunt Shannon and uncle Brendan. Anyway, stop with the rambling, look at the pictures.
Daphne showing us how she can be a duck.

Daphne at McDonalds in Raleigh playing with Chandler. She figured out the thing moves so we had to keep making the beads inside move all around.

We went to this really cool kid's museum where they could touch and play with EVERYTHING. There was a pirate ship, big chess pieces, a submarine, an art station, all about money, and several other things. Daphne had a great time...and so did mommy and Tiff!

The chess pieces she was playing with were almost as big as she is!

Learning to hula hoop.

Tiff and Chandler in the dress up room.

Future money...keep that in mind.

Art! How we love it!

The awesome 5th grade Peep Show for school we did! We made ourselves contestants and John was the announcer. It was so much fun. We'll see next week if we won!

Daphne playing putt putt. She was starting to figure it out. Paw paw's future golfer :)

Mommy teaching Daphne how to swing properly.

Daphne with her crown.

We bought a new helmet set for Daphne because she loved Bryson's so much. It's already been used quite bit, both inside the house and outside.

Don't you love our knee pads?

Wearing Bryson's hat so Daphne and Bryson could be daring driving down the hill on their cars/bikes.

Driving around in our jeep (and yes, we wear a helmet Mimi!)

oh wait, no we would rather PUSH the jeep!

Aunt Emilee is decorating the hair with bubbles...

and showing the puppy dog how to make a mess by blowing the bubbles!

Such the cheeser!

Waiting patiently to go bowling.

I think you should use this one George. It's pretty

hmmn, which one do I want to use? I think I'll just climb on top of the ball return and get one...

Concentrating hard on where I need to throw the ball.

So I have to just push the ball as hard as I can?

Ok dad, show me what you got. You think you can beat me?

ha! Let me show you how it's done.

Mom, quit holding me down. I gotta bowl!

Since the last post...

The pictures are out of order. It wasn't wanting to work correctly tonight.

Daphne and Brian playing around the house. She was wanting to wear my scarf and be a cool dudette.
Since Daphne's lamp has detached itself from the base of the lamp, she has found a new hat. She wore this all day while she was sick with pneumonia. It was interesting holding her when she didn't want to play with that "hat" on.

There's Daphne!

Snow on our back porch during the "blizzard." We had over a foot in some places in our yard. Too bad we didn't get to play in it :(

A few days after 2010 began, we took down the bars to let the convict run amok in the house when she pleases. She has done a great job though so far! She goes to bed and doesn't get out of bed until it's time, and nap time so far has been pretty good. Only one or two times have we found her laying on the floor when we went in to check on her. She's such the big girl!
We have been trying to keep bows in her hair (very unsuccessfully most days). She'll leave them in there for a little bit, but the second that someone comes to play at the house, they are thrown on the floor.

You gotta love that smile!

Playing in the first snow of the new year in Boone with paw, aunt Shannon, and uncle Brendan. They were up there getting books for Shannon and playing with Brendan's remote controled car.

Paw and Daphne stopped by the candy store, and of course they bought half the store!

Our house during the "blizzard" It was very pretty.

My foot was not even touching the ground in this picture.

Daphne was NOT happy that she couldn't go outside to play in the "no" Mommy was pretty upset too because it was such good snow! Mommy had to jump in it once while she was not looking :) Stinking pneumonia!!! At least she is starting to feel better, and only coughing a little now.

At least we got to play with Bryson quite a bit this weekend. The only footprints in the yard besides the one set daddy made going to work were the ones where the six of us (Brandon,Charity, Bryson, and the three of us) would go back and forth to play. Charity made chocolate chip pancakes one morning for us, which was yummy.

Daddy and Daphne playing. I can only imagine what she is thinking in this picture ;)