Good Friday

Today, daycare was closed so Zac stayed home with the kids.  I went in for Alice's teacher-parent conference at 8:10 before work.  They had lots of positive things to say about her, and also gave me her progress report and some examples of her art work.  I think this is hilarious for a kid who's not yet three.  At the same time, it's kind of a fun record of what she can do at the different ages.  I'm glad to see that she has mastered painting and galloping, among other skills.

The black streaky circle is supposed to be a spider web, and the white paper towel pieces glued to black construction paper is supposed to be a moon.

My school was a half-day because it was a snow make-up day, so I got home around one, ate a quick lunch, then we headed out to enjoy the nice weather at a park.  The park was closed due to construction, so we decided to go to the nearby Trader Joes instead.  On the way there, Alice declared that she wanted to push around the small shopping cart. We were preparing her for there not being one available, but luckily, just as we went in the door, a little boy brought over his finished cart.  Alice couldn't have been happier.

I think her favorite part what unloading the groceries.

Then, after the store, we stopped at the nearby Science Safari store, where Alice had fun playing with the plastic dinosaurs and snakes.

Back at home, Alice took a nap and I took Simon to the doctor for his 9 month wellness visit.  He's small, according to the statistics, but he looks normal to me and the doctor wasn't worried.  This morning at school though, my coworker who had a baby around the same time brought him in and he was about twice as big as Simon.

Our porch has been inundated with pollen for the last two weeks, but it seems to be winding down now.  Zac put Alice to work using the squeegee to clean the chairs.

The kids played together for a few minutes, sort of.

Then, once the kids were asleep, Zac and I filled the plastic Easter eggs and hid them around the house.  We also got the baskets ready.  We're having Easter on Saturday since that's more convenient.