It was family farm day at the University. The kids got to see goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, horses, cows, pigs, and bunnies. Daniel and Mia loved holding the baby chicks and really enjoyed the event. Here Daniel is at the "milking cow" booth. The "cow" if made of painted wood and you can practice milking the utter. Daniel was really fascinated with this whole process and had so much fun trying to get milk to come out. Well, he is named after his great grandpa, who is a farmer and raises Angus cows. I guess some of those genes have carried into Daniel.

Mia has recently decided that she really likes to wear her hats. She wears a hat nearly every day for at least part of the day. For some reason, this particular hat became very attached to her for a short time. She wore it for a day and cried when I made her take it off for a bath at night. After her bath and pjs, she handed me her hat again and she wore it to bed. The next morning when I went into her room to get her, before I picked her out of bed, she handed me her hat and patted the top of her head asking for me to put it on again. Her is Mia in her pjs at breakfast, wearing her favorite hat.

This was the best Easter! Shane and I were more excited than the kids about the Easter egg hunt. After nap, Shane went outside to hide the eggs. Then out the kids came and the hunt began. Daniel (2 years) knew what to do and even Mia (13 months) quickly figured out to collect the eggs and put them in her basket. Both of the kids really enjoyed the hunt and it was the highlight of our day.

Look closely, and you can see the remains of a "real" egg to the right of Daniel's shoe. We had colored 4 real hard boiled eggs. We hid those eggs too, but it didn't take Daniel long to figure out that the real eggs had no candy in them. He didn't want anything to do with eggs without candy, so the real eggs quickly got tossed aside.

We had to keep Daniel on task a little. Each time he'd find an egg, he'd want to stop, sit down, and examine the contents. And of course, he'd begin to unwrap and eat anything inside. Evidence of this can be seen with the bit of chocolate drool fround down the front of his shirt. Shane and I would have to encourage him to not eat all the candy now and to keep finding the remaining eggs.

The kids had so much fun searching for the eggs. Daniel ate the chocolate candies and Mia ate the marshmellows that were inside the plastic eggs.

Mia spent a lot of time unloading and reloading her eggs.

Mia looking playing at the park.