Great Easter weekend!

Saturday we had soccer.  Before soccer, Davey and David went to do the monthly Home Depot craft.  They made a really cute bird feeder.  After soccer we went to the community Easter egg hunt.  We won’t do that again.  It was really chaotic.  People ran out before they were supposed to.  The parents were not supposed to run out into the field at all,  but off they went anyway.  David and I were trying to keep our eyes on Davey which was not easy at all.

Apparently these children and I guess their parents had never had candy before.  The smarties and twizzlers must have been a rare treat!  It was an experience.

A pre-hunt picture!

Once we got home, we dyed Easter eggs.  I think this was the first time, we’d dyed eggs with Davey.  It was a lot of fun. It had been a lonnngggg time since I’d dyed an egg.

David had a fun time too (as you can see above, he had fun with the wax crayon!).

Sunday morning, Davey opened up his Easter basket, and then it was time to hunt eggs.  And hunt them again.  And hunt them again.  Today, he hid them all and hunted them again.  Then David hid them once more.

It was chilly early Sunday though.

Fascinated by an egg.

After he hunted in the backyard, he became convinced that the Easter Bunny must have hid some in the front yard as well.  So David bounded off to the front yard and quickly hid them again.

Davey was sure that there was an egg in the mailbox (there was not).

He did recognize some of the eggs that he’d already found in the backyard.  He thought about this for a minute, but then just went with it.  He definitely has the imagination to work this out.

We also got to hunt with the little girls across the street.  This was Davey’s typical pose as he made his way from egg to egg.

Something was very exciting here.

They mostly moved as a trio (I didn’t want to put pictures of the girls’ faces as I didn’t have permission from their parents, but I loved this picture of what must have been the spotting of an egg!).

The Easter Egg Hunt(s) were a great success!

Davey began his second season of soccer today.  It was beautiful outside.  Sunny, no wind and comfortable temps.

Davey had a great time.   He got right back into it.   They are the “Eagles”, so I think he was flying here.

He’s gotten much better at moving the ball.  Very focused:

They had to take turns playing since it is 3 on 3.  He didn’t mind taking time out though.  He looks to be having a very nice chat with his teammate here (I really want to get a better zoom!)

He’s still not all that interested yet in really getting after the ball, but it’s early in the season.  He still spends a lot of time hopping gleefully as he runs after the child who is actually kicking the ball.

He does look ready to go here though!

After the game, he was ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

We are back outside.  It’s supposed to be in the 70s all week and we are loving it.  I am watching Davey jump on the trampoline while I write this.

Davey is now serenading me on the harmonica.  It’s lovely.  Our neighbor, Bob, has a bunch of wind chimes.  I love listening to them as well.  Koko is wandering around.  She likes to be out here with us.

Davey just explained why he is serenading me.  It is part of the entertainment for the food drive he is hosting.  Apparently he learned about food drives watching Olivia.  Now he is having a circus.

So I told Davey that I needed to sit out here and read for my class tomorrow.  Instead, I am perusing baby patterns on Ravelry.  My brother and his wife are expecting their first baby.  yay.  My cousin and her husband are expecting their first baby.  yay.   I have a couple of friends having babies too so I am looking forward to some baby knitting!

I am also finishing up my last cowl in the Great Cowl KAL.  It’s been a lot of fun, but I will be happy to have it finished up.

And that’s about all.  We are all slowly getting healthy again.  Davey’s croup is about gone.  If David can get over his cough, we will hopefully begin to stay healthy around here!

In the meantime, we are enjoying a beautiful day!

It’s Sunday and we are having a definite “loki” day.  Davey is running a fever and is not feeling great.  I am still trying to get over a cold and David has a little bit of a cold himself.  So we are just hanging out.  I’m reading and actually knitting on something that is not a cowl for the first time in several weeks.

It is a fingerless glove – well it will actually have partial fingers and the flap thing that will come over the hand to make a mitten.  They’re convertible mittens and the pattern is called “Podster Glove”.  I am knitting with the prettiest Shibui sock yarn.  Here’s an ok iphone pic.

I love that blue!

I also wanted to blog about Davey’s “baby vision”.  Lately, whenever David and I talk about something that we did before he was born, Davey goes into baby vision mode.  He likes to think that he has always been with us and has participated throughout.  So he stops and he kinda tilts his head and says “baby vision”.  It is with this “baby vision” that he is able to experience these moments from before he was born.  I’m not sure how he came up with this, but it’s pretty cute.

After he goes into “baby vision”, he says things like “oh yeah” and “I remember that with my baby vision”.

This is not exactly the expression he makes, but it’s a unique one that I’ve not captured in a photograph before.  We were getting ready to head to Home Depot yesterday for the kid’s workshop.

I’d just finished working on his hair which had just previously looked like this (a kinda blurry picture but I like it):

Ok back to some more “loki” time!

It’s “a-blowin'” outside.  We are hanging out indoors today. Davey is playing with some of his action figure guys.  His imagination has just exploded and I love to listen to all his pretend play (although I pretend to not be listening!).

I think I am coming along pretty well on my third cowl for the Great Cowl KAL.  I finished the first short row section last night and I’ve now begun the second.  It’s all bunched up on the needles, but here’s how it kinda looks right now.

I’m hoping I’m going to have it done by Wednesday evening.

The other night I made potato pancakes.  Over the years, I’d made them a couple of times from this box mix.  They were pretty good, but I grated potatoes and onions the other night and made them from scratch.  This was the very easy recipe that I used: Potato Pancakes.  I don’t know why I hadn’t done this before.  It takes a little time to grate the potatoes, but it wasn’t bad at all.  Grating an onion was not the most fun thing ever.  Chopping up onions does not typically make me cry, but grating them releases an entirely new level of onion fumes.

When I was a kid, this was my absolute favorite meal ever in the whole world.   So I don’t know why I had not made my favorite meal in the whole world for such a long time.  They were even as good as I remembered. They are fried so I still won’t make them too often, but I am going to make them more then once every twenty years for sure.

I knew bratwurst would be good with them, but in an attempt to lower our total fat intake for that meal, I made chicken bratwurst.  I got them at Sprouts.  Pretty good.  Not as good as the real deal.

A not great food shot:

So good.  I love them with applesauce.  David eats them with ketchup (so wrong).

And finally, lately Davey loves to arrange his stuffed animals into “family pictures”.  Then he wants me to come photograph them altogether.

Proud Davey.