April 28, 2010 by Dad.

Cezanne made another butterfly art project, this time a beautiful butterfly mask and it clearly was all that was needed to put her into character…

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April 24, 2010 by Dad.

Birthday Party Season has started ! Cezanne was invited to Chef’s Party as she called it. Adeline (not to be confused with Adelyn) from school invited Cezanne and all the other girls from school to a party at the Kids Kitchen where they baked doughnuts and decorated cupcakes. This was Cezanne’s first “drop off” party - we left her and fetched her later - and while she was a little hesitant at first, she soon warmed up enough and was able to say good bye and join the girls in the kitchen. Thanks to Adeline’s mom for the photos that we got via Leila’s mom. We even got some of the left over doughnuts and I have to say they were actually quite yummy !!

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April 22, 2010 by Dad.

Etienne has started moving and one morning while Lanelle was getting ready he managed to wiggle himself in under our bed. When Lanelle called me to come and look and take a picture of course Cezanne had to see and she thought it was very funny… 

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April 16, 2010 by Dad.

Spring is here and we can play outside and go to the Arboretum again !! Cezanne is very happy about this because she is very much an outside girl !! Playing with water and sand and swinging outside are big favorites…

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April 15, 2010 by Dad.

Cezanne made this wonderful butterfly and wanted to show it off.

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April 3, 2010 by Dad.

The day started early with both Cezanne and Zack getting up at dawn - Christina and I kept and eye on them while the rest of the house got up on their own time. Cezanne and Zack really had fun playing together - they just seem to have made that connection - even though she is twice his age

After breakfast and everybody had gotten up and dressed we headed out ( leaving Lanelle & Etienne at home ) to the Folsom City Easter Egg Hunt where Cezanne, Aiden and Zack took part in the hunt which is really more of a “run and pick up as many eggs as you can from the field”. I have to say it was all very well organized, there were 4 baseball fields one for each age group and a total of about 18,000 eggs distributed between the 4 fields. Trust me when I say there were more than enough eggs !

So we circled the field which had roughly 4,500 brightly colored plastic eggs all filled with candy and waited for the count down. I took a little video of Cezanne collecting her share of the eggs and in less than 90 seconds all the eggs on our field were in a basket of some or other kind.

Cezanne and the Harvett’s posed for some photos with their haul and we had to open all the eggs and review our loot from this great pillage.

I gave my camera to Christina after taking a bunch of photos of her and Gavin and their boys and she kindly took a few photos of Cezanne and I before we headed homeward, but not before a stop to meet and greet the good old Easter bunny !

Back at the Harvett Home we got ready for the big party and Cezanne and Zack again played outside, this time it was basketball and sand pie baking. When the party started we had another Easter egg hunt and Cezanne ended up with the lucky egg, a single special egg with candy and stickers and a lucky coin !Thanks to the Harvetts for a wonderful spring break- we all had a great time and we miss you already !!

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April 2, 2010 by Dad.

Spring means Easter and with the weather not really working with us, the Mommies found a few crafts to keep the kids busy that they could do indoors while it rained outside.

First they colored eggs and then they decorated egg carton worms. All the kids enjoyed these activities and I think they did a great job. Later I found then all sitting together quietly for a few seconds, moments after these photos were taken they were again running around and around the first floor of the house, yelling and screaming and having way too much fun !

Cezanne working on her Easter Art Projects - coloring eggs and making egg carton Easter worms.

The calm before the storm… The kids sit together quietly before they transform into little tornadoes.

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April 1, 2010 by Dad.

A slow day with not much going on, Lanelle took this one of the 2 kids sleeping in her bed. This was around 10:30am and by this time I was 5 hours into my work day already !

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