Busy, Busy, Busy....

What a week we've had (so far) and the fun will just continue! I have a lot to cover in this post, so be ready to keep up :)

We started out the week with Passover at Grandma and Pops' house. The Seder was abridged and Pops always keeps it moving :) Probably best with 3 toddlers and a 4 year old at the table.

After dinner, Gracie and Maggie talked Pops into joining them in
their fort.

Cooper and Ella gave Gracie a couple of early Birthday presents. I'm pretty
sure she's thought the entire week has been a celebration of her birthday.

Tuesday night we went back to Grandma and Pops for more playtime with Cooper and Ella and more birthday presents for Gracie....

 

The suitcase and rain boots were a hit (she's worn/pulled them everywhere since).

Gracie is happy to tell anyone who wants to know that
she's about to be TWO!!!! and that it's "Gracie Birthday".

This is almost a good picture of all 4 kids :)

On Wednesday, Gracie and I ran some errands and got ready for the second half of the week, while Maggie went to school....

Gracie really loves to color these days, we're trying to teach her to
focus on the paper (not the tile!)

After school we headed for Lincoln to help celebrate Gramma Lea's 80th Birthday! What a special day!

Gramma Lea has 22 Grand and Great Grand kids, 15 of us were able to be there to share her special day.

Maggie has been practicing her magic trick, so she did a little show for us. Papa has a theater in his basement, Maggie
went down to practice her trick (and I think she hoped to do her show on the stage)....do you remember the movie BIG, and the head that talked in the glass fortune teller box? Papa has one of those heads, with a motion sesonor on it, in a glass box on the back of the stage....Maggie climbed on stage (in a half lit room) to do her trick, that head started talking in it's box, she freaked, jumped down all the steps and cleared the door in about .2 seconds. I really wish I had been taping it. These are the kinds of things you can't explain to a therapist later in life. Maggie told my mom the story when we got here, Mom laughed, Maggie looked up, in all seriousness, and said "why are you laughing?"

Everyone helped Gramma Lea blow out the candles.

"Go ahead Gracie, stick your finger in."

"or take a whole big red flower..."

The frosting looks like clown make-up, how fitting at Papa's house.

And just in case, a little more frosting :)

All that frosting kept the girls running for awhile, we made it to Grandma & Grandpas house and finally to bed about 10:45. We had such a great time and were so happy to be able to celebrate with Gramma Lea.