A Week of Firsts

This has been a very busy week around our house. Preston had a lot of first this week. It started off with his first time to REALLY play in the dirt. He LOVED it. I showed him a good dirt spot in the backyard. He sat down and played for a while (he must of really liked it, because not too much holds his attention for more than a couple of minutes). I loved that he would pick up the dirt one handful at a time and dump it into his little wheelbarrow. When he got the wheelbarrow half full he would wheel it about 10 feet away and dump it. He worked really hard.

Here Sweet P is getting a fresh handful of dirt

Next he drops it into the wheelbarrow....

Then off to deposit the dirt to another spot!!

His next first of the week was last night. I decided to make cupcakes for Easter because the grocery store only had one block of cream cheese that I like to use for my cheesecakes. I made the cupcakes, iced them, then let Preston decorate them with sprinkles for the first time. He liked the sprinkling part, but he really liked to sprinkle a little then stick the top of the sprinkle bottle into the icing and lick it clean. So sneaky!!!

Getting ready to sprinkle...look at that little tell-tell grin

This sprinkling takes lots of concentration...if I stick my tongue out I might be able to do it better.

Enjoying one of his creations!

The last first of the week, was this afternoon. We all colored Easter eggs. I was not too keen on the idea this year, but Thomas wanted to give it a go. So Thomas, decided to set a table up outside in case of accidents. Well, Preston was all jazzed up to play, but it did not hold his attention for too long. I think he just wanted to play in the "juice" (dye colors). He did dip the egg a time or two. Thomas and I ended up coloring the eggs, but it looks like a couple of kids colored them (they looked very amateurish). Oh well, I am sure the Easter Bunny will hide them anyways for Sweet P.

Sitting at the table like a big boy ready to color eggs

Preston getting a little help from Daddy

Happy Easter!!!

Saturday, April 3, 2010:

Thankful for:

*Another beautiful day

*For finding some pretty flowers to plant in a flower bed

*For all of us not make to big of a mess while coloring eggs

*PAAS Q-tip Coloring sticks...these were the neatest little Easter egg coloring sticks. It came in a pack of 5 (for 88 cents at Wal-Mart)...all yo do is snap the marked end, the color goes to the other end of the q-tip, and then you color. The colors were bold, and pretty and it was easy to control what you colored