April has been one big Easter extravaganza and I’m pretty sure the twins think holidays are all meant to be a month long. Between preschool crafts, Easter egg hunts everywhere we turned, learning about the Easter story at church, and don’t even get me started on the candy (when did Easter become Halloween?), the girls have yet to understand the concept of Easter actually being on a single day. Even days after the real Easter, they were asking about when the next egg hunt would be. Next year, we will do a better job of educating them and setting expectations!

At the beginning of April, the twins had their spring pictures taken at preschool and they thought it was exciting to wear their special Easter dresses to school. All the kids looked adorable in their Sunday best!

Amelia, April 2017:

Samantha, April 2017:

Miss Debbie said we could bring in younger siblings for a photo op if we wanted to, so Meredith joined in at the end of the morning for a sibling pic. They are such girlie girls and all three twirled around in their dresses all morning.

Meredith adores visiting the preschool and had the playground to herself while we waited for class to end.

Another day, I helped out in Amelia’s classroom with some Easter projects. The kids are always super motivated to “be good” so that Miss Becky will call on them to be next to work on projects with me. We made pictures with “Easter eggs” made out of potatoes and stamps made out of Peeps, as well as decorated their Easter bags for their preschool hunt at the end of the week.

Amelia always acts embarrassed when I am there, but I know she likes it!

Spring crafts and cooking fun! The girls especially enjoyed dyeing eggs at preschool (I was secretly happy I did not have to do that at home this year!) and baking/decorating a giant cookie Easter egg with frosting and fruit at home.

Meredith attended her first spring celebration up at our local park and thought sitting on a giant furry bunny was sorta fun. Amelia flat out refused to be in the picture, but Samantha insisted going with Meredith so that she “wouldn’t be lonely.”

Snuggles!

Flashback to 2015: so tiny and cute!

Last year with Daddy (Meredith stayed at home):

One more try to get Amelia in for a torture pic:

I don’t know how this qualifies as a “hunt,” but at least when we do ours at our house, the girls have to put in a little bit of effort.

I’m pretty sure the girls ignored whatever the egg limit per person was.

Meredith was feeling too timid to ride the ponies, even after Samantha showed her the ropes.

Amelia riding the pony, 2015:

Amanda and the girls show off their face paint.

Being silly with their faces painted, last year:

Amelia was acting cranky that day, but I couldn’t really take anything she cried about seriously because of her face paint! I would just burst out laughing.

Another fun cooking project the girls helped with was making some yummy coconut and chocolate “nests.” The girls have really improved their culinary skills as of late, and it’s getting to actually be fun to have them help out, instead of just a huge hassle. We didn’t get around to half of the crafts and cooking projects we wanted to for Easter, but

Lots of love,