Bows and Eggs

This morning I hauled Baylor off the MD to go to a ribbon outlet.  I was there seven years ago this very same weekend. I left to go there right after an appointment that began the greatest adventure of my life, becoming and being a Mom.  This time he is six years old and my assistant.  We had a good time shopping there and at the register I pulled an Easter egg with an extra 15% off their already super low prices.  

All this was $30!  

The bags of bows were $.03 a bag!! I should have cleaned them out and stocked up the whole family. 

The ribbon rolls were $.10 and the boxes of Easter egg colors were $.05!  I think the most expensive item was a $3.00 roll of satin ribbon. It was totally worth the drive and the mental walk down memory lane was a good one.  Afterward we went to a Toys R Us and then headed home.  

And after unpacking and building a new Lego set for Baylor, I worked on Easter candy.  I made coconut eggs and peanut butter eggs.  Because I give up those things for Lent, I like to surround myself with all kinds of temptation. 

  

I even made coconut eggs with coconut yolks.  

Baylor wanted to do something while I was in the kitchen so I thought we would try the practice writing in shaving cream.  It started out fine. 

And ended in a bit of a mess.  Nothing that a bath and a washcloth could fix.  

Hats, Cars and, Cats

Mom and Dad were meeting Heather for lunch at a diner in Dillsburg and they invited me to join them.  I had some hats for Heather for her usual St. Patrick's Day party and Brigid and I tried them both on.   

While I was out having lunch Gloria was buying a new to her car.  Her Escape was causing more issues than it was worth for her to repair and once she gets an idea in her head, she goes with it.  So now she has a 2006 Eclipse.  It is acutally a year older than her Escape but in better shape.  

Baylor still crashes on the couch but primarily on weekend nights.  And I love it when Grimm cuddles him because he does not sleep with us very often in bed.  Baylor is not used to it and usually kicks him off but until then they look so sweet together.  

Swimming and Tubing!

We were back to the pool in the morning and this time Jaydon was there. So it was just the two boys and Mr Nate.  

Baylor was a rock star, but a very floaty rock star as he cannot swim to the bottom of the four foot end of the pool. He cannot get his butt down, it keeps floating to the top. 

But the rest of the time, he does really well. Ok, I did laugh at him when Mr Nate had him floating on his back and trying to do the back stroke.  He is about as coordinated as I am and was flailing all about.  But it was his first attempt so I know he was not going to get it on the first try.  

We went home, had lunch and suited up to go tubing.  Gloria's work gave the employees passes again this year and of course we went.  Gloria was worried about getting hurt so she stayed on the deck talking with some work friends while Baylor and I stood in the 40 minute line to tube.  

We ending up going on four runs, each with at least a 40 minute wait in line.  But the line was always moving so it did not seem that long.  Well, for Baylor it did at times.  

The lanes were hard packed snow and super slick so they were running so fast.  People who were not slowing down would come flying past the end and crash into other people trying to get out of the way.  Baylor and I went down together, me holding on to his tube and him squealing in delight the whole way down.  I loved listening to his laugh and 'WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"  One time we yelled out to Momma so she would see us go.  

Baylor made sure he had boy colored tubes, especially when he could not get an orange one.  

The club house where Momma was sitting on the deck.  

I hope this summer Baylor and I will take advantage of their summer fun they have there.  They have the OGO balls while I think would be fun for him.  He did great the whole time, being patient in the lines and having so much fun on the tubing runs.  I love making memories with this little guy!!  

Another Snow Day

We woke up to another call from the Superintendent cancelling school due to snow.  And it was quite a snow!!  So I decided to work from home because if I did not have to take him to day care, then I wasn't going to go in to work myself.  Gloria was off too so we had a family day. Well, they had a family day and I worked at the table for most of it.  But for breakfast we had plenty of time to make fun pancakes.  We made a bunny. a mouse and Jack Sparrow.  Or so the Pancake Master said he was.  

I stopped working around 4 to go out to clean off the driveway.  I was not looking forward to shoveling about 6 inches of snow and Eddy looked like she was done with it as well. 

Baylor being six thinks snow is still pretty amazing.  And being off school is pretty amazing as well.  

All I could see was the snow piled on the cars and driveway and wanted to just turn around and hope it melted over night.  

Baylor was ready for swimming class and took a swim in the snow.  

Well, to make a long story short, the snow blower would not start and I had to shovel most of the driveway around the cars and Mr Doug kindly used his snow blower to clear off the top of the driveway for us.  There was enough room for us to get out and since Friday was to be in the 50's we left it at that.  

Winter will end some day. I just know it.