My Life as Wife, Mommy, & Child: Spring Break & March 2016

This week we celebrated Easter over the weekend and Katelyn has been home all week for Easter Break. We have tried to do a few fun things, although we haven't been able to do everything we wanted because we have a couple kiddos with colds that I didn't think should go to the kids museum, etc.

This past weekend we had a lot going on. Last Friday (Good Friday), Katelyn had grandparents day at school, which she had really been looking forward to. They had a program where the Kindgerteners sang one song and recited their Bible verse for the month (see video below). It was her first Friday that she had to go to school as she usually only attends Tuesday through Thursday. So that was a little different for us. Then that evening we had communion service at church.

On Saturday, we spent a large chunk of the day buying things for our coming bathroom renovation. We rented a U-haul and went and picked up one bathroom vanity and 2 bathtubs. Our garage has one stall filled with boxes at the moment, so Kyle's car got bumped outside again. That seems to happen every time we have a project. Tomorrow we will be starting demo on one of the bathrooms.

Playing in the trailer before we bought anything.

Saturday afternoon we dyed Easter eggs with the kids, which was fun. Madison is at the age where she has to do EVERYTHING that her sisters are doing. She doesn't realize that her age has any limitations.

Sunday was Easter and we had family over to our house after church for lunch outside on the back patio. It was a beautiful day. The girls had fun hunting for eggs with their cousin, Micah.

Love these girlies.

We love Micah!

Madison is one of the big kids this year.

Later that day, after all the company had left, we went out front to play for a while and Katelyn finally rode her bike with no training wheels! It was a pretty big deal for us.

Yes, Katelyn wrote this when I suggested she try riding her bike. About 2 minutes before she mastered it.

You might want to skip to the last 30 seconds to see her really get it.

On Tuesday, I took the girls to IKEA. Katelyn was pretty bummed she didn't get to go last time, so she had been asking and I needed to pick something up. The big girls went to the play area and so I was able to spend an hour with just Madison getting the things I needed. It was pretty great. Then we headed to the library, to get our usually 20+ books. They were having a reading program where the girls had read enough that they each got free burgers at In-N-Out. So of course, we had to go to In-N-Out for lunch. I think this was one of my first attempts with all 3 kids at a restaurant by myself. And it was CRAZY. It was so busy because 1.) it is In-N-Out and 2.) it was spring break for all the schools. In any case, we had fun, I just probably won't do that every week.

They liked it, even if the picture doesn't show it.

On Wednesday we biked to the shopping center by our house and Katelyn did 2 wheels the entire way. You would never know she just figured it out. Then in the afternoon the girls were playing outside and Katelyn figured out how to swing all by herself. It was a big day on two things we have been working on for a very long time. Here is a video of her swinging (and singing). Ignore the last few seconds when I am yelling at the other two kiddos.