Easter day

 On Easter morning Jeff and I were so excited to see Heidi's reaction to her Easter basket.  While she was excited, she was not her best self that day.  What is it about holidays??  I seem to remember her having a rough Christmas morning too.  Anywho...she was more than thrilled with this little piggy the Easter bunny brought her.  She had to have her pig on her tray while she ate breakfast and she hasn't hardly put the thing down since Sunday.

 Of course she was thrilled to open eggs.  She says, "POP!" every time she opens one.  She loves plastic eggs.  We never even put her eggs away from last year because she has so much fun playing with them.  She was thrilled to have a new stash since the ones from last year are well loved and a lot of them have been lost throughout the year!

 When we were getting candy for her eggs Jeff insisted on getting robin eggs so he could show Heidi how to color her lips.  I'm not sure who was more excited about it.

 Heidi kept wanting to look in the mirror at her blue lips and she kept saying, "Blue lips!  Blue lips!" all day long.

Holidays are so, so, so much more fun with this little one around!  The countdown is on for the Fourth of July!

the egg hunt(s)

 I had a feeling Heidi would love hunting for eggs this year, and her excitement did not disappoint.  Jeff and Michael had fun hiding her eggs around the back yard.

 Heidi had to have a little help reaching a few of the eggs.

 Nothing cuter than watching her reach for the eggs.  She would clap every time she got one and say, "Yay!"

 The basket started getting heavy after awhile and she would say, "Backa heavy!" 

Once she collected all of her eggs, she kept saying, "More!  More eggy!  Eggy tree!  More!"  So we hid the eggs again...and again...and to be honest, we are still hiding them at least once a day!  How can you say no to that little face?

dying the eggs

 Easter was so much this year.  Heidi loved every single part of the festivities from dying eggs to wearing a "fancy dress" to church.  We colored eggs on Friday night and Heidi had an absolute blast.  She loves colors so she loved picking what color to make each egg.

 As soon as the egg went in the dye she wanted to pick it up and admire it.  We told her it had to dry first.  So naturally she started blowing on the eggs.  I guess she figured it was like when we paint her nails and tell her we have to blow them dry before she touches anything.

 She wanted daddy to start blowing the eggs dry with her.

My little brother, Michael, came up from Utah State to join in all the Easter festivities.  We had so much fun!

curlers

 I have a whole bunch of Easter pictures to post, but I decided I better post these before they get lost in all the festivities.  The other day Heidi found sponge rollers and wanted them in her hair.  I don't know how she even knew what they were.  I know I've said it before, but she is so girly!  From the way she runs, to the way she stands, to the way she always wants to look "pretty".  She would not let me take them out and kept saying, "Curlers, pretty!  Wow!"  Then she would run to check herself out in the mirror.

 She even wanted to play her favorite hide and seek game sporting the curlers...hiding in the same spot she always hides in.

I finally got her to let me take them out before we had to run to the store, but the next morning it was the first thing she wanted me to do.  She climbed right up on dad's lap to read a book, eat her toast, and sport her curlers.  We love her little personality!

just eating my toast

After Heidi ate her yogurt yesterday morning and I got her out of her chair and cleaned up, she decided she wasn't done and wanted to eat my toast.  She wanted to eat it in her chair but she didn't want the tray.  Apparently she just wanted to relax. 

Sidewalk Chalk

 I'm not sure if spring is really here or if it's just teasing us, but we have been having a blast with the beautiful weather!  We have been taking full advantage of all the amazing parks around and today we pulled out some sidewalk chalk when I got home from work.

 Please excuse her rag-a-muffin appearance, but we didn't exactly want to do this activity in her Sunday best. Heidi loves to lay on her tummy, especially to color.  I guess when you color on the driveway you still need to lay on your tummy.

 Then for some reason she rolled to her back and started kicking her legs.  I think she just couldn't handle her excitement over the sidewalk chalk.  She ended up with blue and pink streaked hair.

 She is also in heaven with the amount of kids out and about.  She had to stop coloring every time a kid walked, scootered, or biked past to say, "Hi Kid!"

I love this picture of her chalky bum.  Please let the lovely weather last!

oh my hair

 In case you missed my facebook post, this is how Heidi looked when I went to get her this morning.

Obviously she likes to wiggle and obviously she has a lot of hair.  It's certainly not the first time she's had a bad case of bed head, but this one was definitely the worst I've seen.  She kept feeling her head and saying, "Hair...uh oh".

 It's hard to have this much hair...

I got it combed out with a lot less trouble than I thought and not even one tear.  Then she discovered she had pockets and let me tell you, I loved watching her walk around with her little hands in her pockets all day.  

Boy oh boy do I love my wild haired little toddler!