Coloring Easter Eggs

On the Saturday before Easter, we decided to color Easter Eggs. Since Mia loves to color, we thought this would be fun for her. She was interested in it - for about 5 minutes - and then was ready to move on to something else. So basically this ended up to be more for Jake and me than for her. Oh well - at least we had fun!

Mia coloring her egg



Mia trying to eat her egg


Our finished eggs

Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter Egg Hunt in Webster Groves was several Saturdays ago. Since this was Mia's first official egg hunt, we thought it would be fun to invite all the Grandparents to come with us (and Uncle Scott too!) The egg hunt was in the courtyard at a retirement community. It actually was a neat set-up with two different egg hunt areas: one for little kids (under 3) and one for big kids (over 3).



The Easter Bunny was there too.



When the egg hunt officially started, Mia was a little overwhelmed. Luckily, for the little kids hunt, adults were able to accompany the kids. Mia picked up a few eggs, but certainly didn't get the concept of racing around to pick up the eggs, like some of the other kids. Instead, Mia would pick up an egg, show it to me, shake it, look at it, etc....before I would get her to put it in her basket and move on to another one.





After the hunt was over, the little kids area cleared out as everyone had moved over to the big kids area. We took advantage of this time to do our own little mini egg hunt with Mia. Since we have to be careful of candy with Mia's peanut allergy, we filled the eggs with grapes and graham crackers. Mia thought that was so much fun!



After the egg hunt, we went to lunch at one of our favorite places - First Watch. Yum! We are so happy that we could share this day with the family!

Staycation 2009 - Day 5

For our final day of Staycation, we decided to check out the City Museum. Both of us had been there years ago and we remembered it being a really cool place. I had read about the Toddler Town area online and it sounded pretty cool. The City Museum is awesome - but many of the activities are too big for Mia. Unfortunately, visiting Toddler Town in person was not as cool as visiting online. Oh well! We still had a great time and the weather was gorgeous so we had fun exploring outside. Mia's favorite part was running around in the open area of the ballroom (yes - even with all the cool things to see and do, all she wanted to do was run & scream at the top of her lungs...although she did get a little scared when the employee tried to say hi to her!)








After the City Museum, we headed over to M-town. Lauren and Adam were in town so we were able to visit with them for about an hour. It was so nice to see them, as always! After visiting with them, it was time to take Mia's to Grandma & Grandpa T's house. They were watching her so we could go to our Club Cross event - Lumpia Night. A woman from our church made us a Filipino dinner (DELICIOUS!) and the she taught us how to roll crab rangoon, which we got to take home with us. So fun!

Our week of Staycation was incredible. We had so much fun doing things around St. Louis that we always talk about but never had the time to do. And best of all, we had some great family time together and made some wonderful memories!

Staycation 2009 - Day 4

Day 4 of our Staycation was our day to chill. Since we had packed in so much fun on Wednesday, we decided to take it easy in the morning and just hang out. Mia had fun playing and watching Elmo (her favorite!). Mia was ready for a nap at 11:00, so we went ahead and let her sleep. Once she woke up, we ate some lunch and then decided to go shopping at St. Louis Mills. I was excited to go to the big Children's Place store. We got some great deals that day! We found a darling Easter dress for Mia and I was in sales rack heaven picking up clearance items for next fall. Oh I do love to shop! The Mills has a nice indoor playground that Mia was excited to check out. After shopping for several hours, it was time to head back home. We had thought about going out to dinner, but Mia fell asleep in the car so we just grabbed sandwiches. All in all, it was a great day!