Sick and Lazy

April started with a bang.  Dillan threw up in the car on the way to a midwife appointment, all over his clothes and the carseat.  I stripped him down to his underwear and that's how he went to the appointment!  Then Kyle brought cleaning supplies and clothes for Dillan.  At the end of the appointment Dillan threw up all over his new change of clothes and Kyle.  He was sick the rest of the night, tired the next day, then fine.  Hazel got the same bug a few days later, I got it a few days after her.  That sickness was the first time I've ever spent the whole day sleeping in bed.  Then I got morning sickness for the rest of the first trimester, so feeling good was short-lived.

I also found out that I was 4 weeks less along in the pregnancy than I thought I was.  Frustrating!

 Hazel chose the family home evening activity.  We took turns building this tower, and it ended up pretty creative!  There is a car in the back left and a grey fish next to it!

 Cute!

 She colors on herself regularly, just not usually on her tummy.  We don't let her color with markers anymore.

 Hmm...what are they doing?  Hazel is holding butter, drawing on the sliding glass door.  That's when I knew we needed a fridge lock.

 Went to the Kids Super Resale in Gresham, everything super cheap on consignment.  I got this dress there, put it on her on Sunday and she knew she was so beautiful that twirled and she needed her toenails painted!

Grandma and Grandpa Tanner came to visit.  They bought Dillan a remote control car, you can see the love. While they were here we went hiking at the base of Mount Hood to Zigzag Falls.  The kids had a blast hiking on the snow.  Grandpa did a fireside about his new movie for our stake while he was here.  Having a guest speaker from Salt Lake is big deal out here in Oregon!

The kids and I joined Grandma and Grandpa Hardy for a few days of their vacation at Eagle Crest (Central Oregon).  This was a beautiful hike along the Deschutes River.  Hazel's favorite part was the dirt on the trail.  We couldn't get her to hike because she kept stopping, rubbing her hands through it, picking it up.  I never knew dirt was so interesting.  We also got to go swimming and went to the High Desert Museum.

Also in April: 

Hazel got hives.  Don't know why, they went away after a day or two.  

We found the perfect preschool for Dillan (starts in the fall).  It includes 30 minutes of gymnastics as part of each day!
Kyle finished fixing up the duplex.  It took forever and I'm glad to have him back on nights and weekends!  New tenants moved in immediately.  That was a blessing!

Refridgerator Extravaganza

March was most notably the month that our tenants moved out.  The duplex was in horrible condition after 20 years.  Kyle started the long road of fixing it up.  Every Saturday and many nights after the kids went to bed he was ripping up carpet, replacing bathroom floors, painting, repairing, cleaning, sheet rocking, spackling. 

In March Hazel also discovered how to open the fridge.  Usually she would do this while I was in the shower, giving her a good 20 minutes of trouble-making before I would come down and find her out.

Easter Egg Hunt!

 Notice the pile of toilet paper on Dillan's bed.  Hazel is hiding a pile of shredded up toilet paper in her lap.  This is about 2 rolls worth.  They put it all into a brown paper bag that sat by our toilet and took about a month to use up.  Hazel was also putting crayons and colored pencils in the cardboard center.

 Adorable!

 She climbed onto the bathroom counter and got into my makeup and hair goo.  The bathroom was a sticky mess.  She did a decent job of putting on mascara, didn't poke her eye and actually got some on her eyelashes!

 We tried to take a beach trip with Grandma  Hardy and some cousins.  While following them to the beach I got a flat tire, 45 minutes from home, no cell phone, and I watched them obliviously drive on.  Triple A does you no good with no cell phone!  I had to change the tire myself, on the side of the freeway.  It took some time, and a prayer, but I found all the supplies (which were hidden under the backseat, hard to remove).  I started to loosen the lug nuts, unsuccessfully, when a man snuck up behind me.  Aah!  "Sorry to startle you, but you're doing that backwards (lefty loosy, I'm dumb) can I help you?"  He did the rest of the tire change for me.  Since the tire was full size and the day couldn't get any worse, we kept going on to the beach.
We never found Grandma or our cousins, but we had fun!  

 They have a lot of personality!

 Another fridge break in.  Those are her gnaw marks along the edges.

 This is Hazel's grown-up friend Connie.  They are playing with some Easter gifts she brought over.  What a great friend!

First pigtails!

 Dillan called this a superhero mask.  Then, he wanted to know what it looked like, so he took off the whole thing and recreated it on the TV for himself to look at.

 At Lowe's Dillan and Hazel made monster trucks.  When we got home he wanted to paint it.  He doesn't usually focus on projects very well, but he did this for 30 minutes, covered the whole car!

Hazel's creation.  She placed all the pegs on the pegboard and all the tiny dinosaurs.  Not easy for a 2 year old.  I love it when they play quietly, and when you go check on them they aren't getting into trouble!

She did NOT want me to take off her favorite pajama pants.  So she found a different way of wearing them.