Backyard Egg Hunt & More

We've had some fun things going on around here... Aside from the incessant need for retraining my children NOT to whine and yell and argue. This weekend we stumbled upon a neighborhood picnic where we ended up bringing home many jelly-bean-filled eggs. So Monday the kids ended up having their annual Family Egg Hunt in our back yard. Nicolas loves to hide the eggs for the twins. They all had a blast, and decided to do it once more indoors, which was also a hit. This was great for me, because I was able to get a lot of housework done in the meantime. =O)

Sergio was also very excited to discover how fun colorful, plastic eggs are. While I was making dinner that night, the twins were laughing hysterically over and over for at least 15 minutes straight -- they would place an egg under Sergio's chest when he was on his tummy propped up with his hands, then he would put his weight down on the egg and send it careening across the floor and then crawl after it. Good times.

The three bigger kids all helped set the table Monday night, and I just had to show you the hilarious way William set out napkins. Usually I will tear the big paper towels in half and leave them in a stack for someone to set out, but this night I wanted to see if William would figure out how to tear them in half by himself. I don't know if you can really see, but each setting's napkin is basically shredded and crumpled almost into a ball. (I think he tried to tear them all at once, and they are not perforated.) I actually had three separate tiny pieces of "napkin" at my place. It was good for a private laugh.

(I have no idea why this blogger won't let me upload the picture horizontally, even after half a dozen tries! Grrrr.)

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Here's another funny:

Saturday afternoon I was EXHAUSTED and had fallen asleep for a few minutes nursing the baby. Matt was out golfing and buying a new truck (!!!!). Now I realize my 4-year-olds don't have a real grasp of time concepts yet, but this really tickled my funny bone...

McKenna came in to wake me, saying William was calling me from the bathroom.

William: "Mom, I neeeeeeeed you!"

Mom: "How long have you been calling for me?"

William: "For twenty years!"