Happy Easter!

We all love this wonderful time of the year! Easter is such a great time to reflect on the Ressurection of our Savior. The children loved celebrating Easter this year and sharing why they were grateful for the ressurection. Julia was grateful that Jesus came back to life and JC was grateful that Jesus made it possible for him to be able to be baptized and to be able to repent to live with Him again.
The children were beautiful in their Easter outfits. We all enjoyed a wonderful Sacrament Meeting and a yummy ham dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's house afterwards.
We have had another great week! Ethan has found out about nursery rhymes and absolutely loves Ring around the Rosey and will sing the Ashes, Ashes part all day long. He will just be sitting or playing and break out in song, "Ashes, Ashes, Ashes, Ashes, Ashes" It is really cute and silly. He has a great voice already, so who knows he may be a great bass singer later on! He is talking more and more and is using complete sentences too. He will tell you, "I want juice" or "I want this" He also today told me, "Look at this" He speaks pretty clearly too which is great because I can understand him. I think he has grown an inch in the last week, he just looks taller.
Julia found the joys of pethood this week. She found her first pet, an earthworm, she called it Wormy, she loved it and bathed it and petted it. Then it was time for dinner so Wormy was placed in the dirt again. She was sad and wishs that Wormy would come back but is glad he is home with his family. She so loves animals and asks me to tell her all about bugs while we are driving. I rack my brains to think of something fun to share about bugs that I haven't already told her. She likes the new pigs that are on the farm now, sorry I don't have a photo yet, but is staying a healthy distance from them. We should be getting calves pretty soon. Julia loves to hold the baby chickens still and they are half grown now. She just scoops one up and holds it on her lap. The chickens are really tame and sweet which is nice.
JC started art lessons this week and is hooked. He looks forward to each Monday now. He is doing well in school and is loving learning and being challenged. He wants to read now and doesn't try to get out of reading like he did before. He had a lot of fun at his friend birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. He had 4 school friends come which I thought was great because we had such short time to send out invitations. I met the parents and we should be able to have some nice play dates over the summer for JC. The kids had a blast playing arcade games and doing rides and getting tickets! Chuck E Cheese is the best!
I have been able to find a very good psychiatrist for JC and he has recommended very good therapists and family practioners so the children are in good hands medically for which I am very grateful.
We were able to pump up tires and pull out bikes this week and took a great bike ride exploring our street and the ponds nearby. The kids really enjoyed relaxing and JC loves to race me and win, of course, I can't even try to compete with his energy! The ponds have bullfrogs that we can hear, but as soon as we get up close the frogs stop croaking so we have yet to see a frog, they blend in too well for us, and we have seen turtle heads poking up out of the water, JC enjoyed seeing that they weren't floating sticks, but were in fact moving and swimming.
JC is getting more and more excited for his baptism and is looking forward to seeing his Dad and Sitto and Poppy.