Yeah! Its a girl!

LisaAnn & Brady have a new arrival! Baby Lainey Ann was born on Wednesday! I'll try to post some super cutie pictures soon.

treats from the grandparents

The girls were overjoyed to get their yummy Easter treats from Grandma Slaugh. Grandpa Slaugh also sent some goodies to eat, including a chocolate bunny. I heard the girls discussing which part of "the professor" they were going to eat first. Julia wasn't timid. In the end, we broke off part of his ears. 

Elsie really focuses on her chocolate. The wrapper was difficult, but oh the reward for all that hard labor! Too bad her name isn't Ryanita! We truly did more for Easter than eat. There was a beautiful Easter Egg hunt at Craighill park put on by our friend Haleigh, and the pretty dresses, and Mom prepared a very special Easter Egg hunt to tell the story of Jesus, but Elsie kept opening them out of order to see if they had candy inside. She is a quick learner when it comes to food. Also, she is a very methodical young lady. Tonight she found my shoes on the floor, and headed over to the closet to remind me to put my shoes in the 'shoe basket'. I always put my shoes upstairs, but I couldn't resist indulging her sense of order.

Chocolatey goodness

Julia was playing in the mud and telling me that it was really chocolate. I think there may have been a little chocolate overdose at our house during Easter time. Oh what fun! 

Spring Is Springing!

I love watching the flowers pop up and the grass become greener and greener. Today at Mel's little class she got her face painted, so when she came home, everyone had to try it out. We've been practicing our hopping and also our carrot eating, as Elsie is so gracefully demonstrating. We also like to practice with a jelly bean or two.

camp fire

Last week for FHE we had a campfire in our backyard! Melody had been bugging me to have a fire, so we at last relented! We had such fun getting sticky and dirty and smelly, oh this is the good life!

Story Time!

Story time is one of the great Slaugh traditions. At least at our house.  I love it when Daddy and the girls pile in the chair together. I can't believe that all of them fit, but they do! Elsie always climbs right up in the middle. Most of the time mauling Julia on the way.

what am i doing up at 12am?

Well, I'm playing around with the blog, of course. What else do people do at midnight? Silly sleeping people. They're missing out on all the fun. Well, actually, its probably a good idea. 

The Slaughs are all doing well. No catastrophes lately. Melody is doing well in school. She is reading a few words, and seems to be getting more curious about them wherever she goes. But, she would by far rather don a dress, turn up the VeggieTales and dance. Dancing is a regular occurrence at our house. Today even Elsie discovered how to turn the music on. Oh no!

Julia is a work in progress right now. Mommy and Daddy are learning yet new dimensions of patience and calmness when responding to Julia during bedtime, or actually, anytime. She is pretty darn cute when she's asleep, though.

Ryan continues to be diligent. Bless him forever for that! He even made chocolatey cookies last night and shared them with me! WOW! Now that's love. And I, to show my undying love and devotion, washed and dried the sheets. I know, I know, pretty heroic.

Janay