4th annual easter egg hunt/J's 1st major owie

We hosted our 4th annual easter egg hunt & potluck brunch again this weekend and boy, what an endeavor! It had snowed a few days ago so with the help of Melissa, Evan's mom, we shoveled the snow from the backyard for the egg hunt. And with snowboarder's help, we decided to make little trails all over the yard. When we got done, the yard looked like a maze of snow! We had a huge turnout, about 26 kids, definitely more than the previous years but I think moving forward, I'm going to start scaling down to no more than 15 kids. Otherwise, with the kids getting older, it's just going to be chaos.
Anyway, towards the end of the party, baby j was hanging out in the front yard with snowboarder and as he was making his way back to the front porch, he tripped and hit his head on the concrete steps! OWWWWW....I heard him crying but I didn't think anything of it since he was with snowboarder but when I finally went to see him minutes later, snowboarder had him in his arms and baby j was just balling. I walked up to check on him and there it was, staring me in the face, a golf ball sized bump on baby j's forehead!!!! I didn't freak out or anything or maybe I did and I don't remember, but when baby j reached for me I calmly took him inside, got his favorite pillow and had snowboarder grab some ice. J finally settled down and actually let snowboarder hold the pack of ice on his forehead for a long time. We gave him some Motrin and hoped that it was nothing serious. We thought about going to the hospital but decided to keep an eye on baby j for the next 24 hours and take it from there. Surprisingly, j didn't want to nap and hours later seemed like he was back to his normal self and his golf ball bump shrunk down to the size of a gumball!

'nastics

I've been wanting to take jeffrey to a class just like I did with little nael when she was much younger but hadn't found one that worked with big sister's school schedule. It seemed that baby j was getting the shorter end of the stick since nael has been busy with school and other classes while he just goes along for the ride! Nael has taken gymnastics, swimming, music, and cheerleading classes. Jeffrey...nada! Well, today I finally got him to Kangaroo gymnastics over at the rec center. Same class and coach that Nael had just fast forward 2 years later. I told jeffrey when he woke up this morning that we were going to gymnastics class after we took big sis to school. He was excited and said "'jeffrey going to 'nastics" although he had no idea what gymnastics was until we got the gym at the rec center. He had a great time. He danced during warm-up and shook his sillies out. He rolled on the mat, walked sideways on the balance beam, crawled through the tunnel, hung on the rings and raised his legs...He was loving it. Towards the end of class, j plopped himself on the floor and said "jeffrey tired" but he did get up 3 times to do the ring exercises. On our way home, I asked j if he wanted to go back again to gymnastics class and all he said was "jeffrey go to 'nastics again".

little ballerina

Today was the first day of little nael's ballet class. She's been dying to take ballet lessons so she was pretty excited. When we got home from class, she couldn't wait to practice what she learned today.