Sittin' in the Driveway

Katie and Ella... just sitting in the driveway. Side by side. Ella (left) is blowing bubbles (a newly acquired skill) and Katie is admiring the flower she picked.

Playing in the rain

April showers brings out Katie and Ella to play in the rain! Ella wasn't too sure about it, but Katie (in pink) was having a good ol' time!

G'ma puts the girls to work!

Here's a couple of photos Grandma took while I was out of the house this weekend... she puts those girls to work! Katie has the mop and Ella is scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush.

Happy Easter!

Getting ready for church, Katie (naked!) and Ella play ring-around-the-rosy to the ABC song.

We all fall DOWN!
Ella hunting eggs before church.
She found one!

Aunt Shelley helping Katie.
Looking through the daffodils...
Katie found a pink one!

"Look!", says Ella.
All of us (Katie in orange, Ella in stripes) hunting eggs at Cousin Betty's house later that afternoon.

The Easter bunny left a little Bunny, a frog, and two little chicks that sing Let's Go to the Hop for Katie and Ella.

Decorating Easter Eggs

Ella, Wesley, and Katie showing off the Easter eggs they decorated.We had a few cracked eggs, as you can imagine, so Aunt Shelley is showing the kids how to peel a boiled egg. Trying to peel one themselves.
"hmmmm... very interesting", says Ella. Katie is a little grossed out by it all... not quite sure what to do with her egg. Wesley keeps talking about the baby chicken that 'could have been'...

Story Time at the Library

Since arriving in Atoka, we've been going to the library for story time. Last week was our last day and Ms Alice (the same librarian who was here when I was a kid!) threw a little Easter party for the kids. It was COLD that day (our Easter freeze), so we hunted eggs in the conference room. Doesn't make for very cute pictures, but we had to memorialize the day regardless.

The girls were working together as a team hunting for eggs.Katie showing off her loot.
Ms Alice and her story time friends.

Paperdolls

Since Daddy was missing his girls, we decided to make a paper-Katie and a paper-Ella to send to him. So, Daddy look for them in the mail. We thought you could take them around the island and take pictures with them and it would be just like the girls were there with you. (We'll see if the arrive in any kind of form you can work with... hmmmm.)

Ella giving her paper doll a hug.
Katie not wanting to take a photo (she was in a bad mood that day).

The Zoo

Since we were in "the city", we decided to take the kiddos to the Oklahoma City zoo. Here's a few photos from our afternoon there. As you can see, it was a BEAUTIFUL day!

Katie riding the Tiger
Ella on the something (can't remember what it was!)



Both on the turtle (Ella on the turtle's neck)
Ella on the Elephant
The peacock they were afraid of, but couldn't quit talking about afterwards. "He was bery, bery LOUD!", says Katie.

Here's the choo-choo train they rode ALL BY THEMSELVES! They were very brave... but, Katie kept her ears covered, just in case (her coping mechanism for when she's scared). She did that the entire ride! The second ride, however, she was brave enough to do it without covering her ears. Big girls!

Okay, so we are looking at the little monkeys, trying to take a picture. We get all excited because one of them stops near the glass and we think, GREAT, he stopped so we could take a picture and the girls could get a good look at him... Well, HE apparently was a SHE and as I was pulling out the camera, she was jumped by her boyfriend. So, the girls get a little nature lesson while viewing the monkeys at the zoo! Nice photo, huh?

Sesame Street Live

We all went to see Elmo in concert (Sesame Street Live) -- Katie & Ella, Grandma, Momma, and even Aunt Shelley went along. Katie and Ella weren't too sure at first... you can see below that Ella has her ears covered and Katie was concerned that it was dark. Big Bird came on before the show and told all the kids to stay in their seats because they were going to turn off the lights. That's all she could talk about before the show... "It's going to be dark, Mommy."

As you can see below, as soon as the show started, they were okay...
Ella in Grandma's lap -- VERY EXCITED!