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According to my Facebook newsfeed, purple seemed to be the color of the year for Easter dresses.  Either that or all my friends shop at Costco like we do.  We enjoyed our first Easter in our new home.  Dan took this picture in front of the ornamental purple crabapple we had planted last year and used the bar stools we purchased for the island.  Yay! The FHE before we made palm tree branches by tracing the children's hands and had a little procession.  My super nice husband played the donkey and I figured it was the least sacrilegious to put the baby in as the role of Jesus.  She, however, decided that she wanted to wave palm branches instead, and soon the role was shared by M & D too. When I set up the co-op preschool calendar this year I made sure to put the letter E in the week before Easter.  The children's favorite activity was going on an Easter egg hunt.  They didn't mind at all that there were pictures of things that began wit...

Has it really been 5 weeks since I wrote anything down?  Here we go again: All went well at N's one year check-up.  Well, she would argue that it was fun until they shot her in the legs!  N is tall and skinny like her Daddy -- no big surprise there.  I notice every time I bathe her or change her clothes.  The doctor encouraged me to move N out of our room to help her sleep better. We did so -- she's sleeping every night in M's room now.  At first she couldn't sleep without the doll she picked out at IKEA for her birthday.  I love finding her in different positions.  The new arrangement doesn't seem to help her sleep any better but we can blame that on her trying to cut her 2nd upper front tooth.  She has the hardest time teething out of all of our children!  N also took her fist steps right after having her birthday, but she chooses not to use that option very often.  Usually she can get mom or dad or K or D or the neighbors to ca...