Okay nevermind. Now I see that this was a pre-Easter Bunny shot. Max asked if the Easter Bunny is real, or if it is just us, and Sean told him he's real, and so Max is now totally convinced. Oh being a parent.

(No pictures of Jack because we are still almost-cameraless so all the other pics are really blurry.) It was actually somewhat rough because the Easter Bunny didn't think to get Adi her own basket, and so she had to share with the boys. Not a happy girl.

Notice Adi is wearing a dress. Probably for the second time in her life, with Katy and Evan's wedding being the first. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa McCool! She got to wear her third dress at a friend's house later in the afternoon. Thanks Grandma Jean!

At this egghunt Adi realized that the eggs actually had things inside them, and she was a girl on a mission.

She warmed up to my friend Emma, I think sensing that this was her opportunity to hang out with a non-tomboy! Of course Emma was also her primary sugar dealer.

Adi also liked Emma's husband, perhaps a bit too much :-)

Adi is getting SO big! She prefers to sit at the table with us rather than in her highchair (I, on the otherhand, do not prefer it!)

She's finally starting to talk, but the clearly comprehensible words are still limited: papa, mama, baby, MINE!, more, water (wa wa), poo poo. She also repeats everything we say and has her own special way of saying other words, like Max and Jack and milk. Her main communication though, other than squealing, is to vigorously nod or shake her head, depending on her feelings about what is going on. I'll try to get a video soon because we must remember this forever, it is so very cute! She's also pretty fearless. This is her at a bouncy house birthday party.

The boys continue to be the sweetest as well as the most infuriating duo of characters. I love watching Jack start to learn preschool things. He is so quiet, but I know there's a lot going on in there. Max, in contrast, is not quiet at all, so I am certain that his brain is always working. (I love my progression as a mother, btw. With Max, I was always trying to capture the accomplishment. Now I want to capture the pre-success. I know they will all eventually talk and do long division, etc, It's the getting there that is so cool. And adorable.) We've been watching American Idol with the boys, and it is so cool to start to have big enough kids to do "grown-up" things like this (and this). Of course this is the usual outcome:

Okay I know I need to record more, but I ran my first marathon today,

and tomorrow starts my Month O' Challenge: observe in a middle school 7:30 AM-2:30 PM then seminar 4 PM-6:30 PM plus homework. Hopefully Adi still remembers at the end!

Thanks mamas for loving us!

And here's a video of your favorite thing ever. (For everyone else, yes it's true, Adi can say "Papa" but not "Mama." Sean thinks this is remarkably adorable. I do too, kind of.)