easter sunday 2025

we celebrated easter on sunday with our families at my parents' house.  we visited, had dinner and dessert, and chased noah around.

love, laurie

noah the tool man

noah recently got a new tiny tool belt and he is in his glory wearing his tool belt and putting his tools in and out of it to fix everything!

love, laurie

noah's easter egg hunt

we took noah to a local egg hunt on saturday and he had a great time!

he picked up 9 eggs and was really pleased with himself.  it was at a play ground that we have never been to before, so he enjoyed checking out the slides.  after the egg hunt was over, we got to meet the easter bunny.  he was so excited to meet the bunny until it was our turn and then he got scared, but after it was over he was glad he meet him and kept talking about it!

love, laurie

happy easter weekend!

this photo of noah wearing his bunny sweater and bunny ears last year for easter is the cutest. 

we hope everyone has a great easter weekend!

love, laurie

noah's first hibachi experience

we unexpectedly found ourselves getting hibachi recently.  it's been years since we've had hibachi and noah has never had it, so it was a fun experiment to see if he would like it or not.  he was really into the flames at first and then ending up holding on to me for dear life, but he watched and was intrigued.  he chef gave him a blow up prince crown (that they give people for birthdays) so he liked that!

love, laurie

still going strong on the potty piano

for anyone keeping track, schroeder still plays his "potty piano" often!

love, laurie

forgot a part

i walked in the bedroom the other day and saw this.  leko, i think you forgot to put a part under the covers!

if it's spring, why is it so cold lately?!

love, laurie

new gloves in time for spring!

we looked all over for kid-sized gardening gloves for noah for when the weather gets nicer because he loves to help us outside and he wore my gloves last year.  we ordered a pair on amazon and he was excited to check them out when they arrived.

love, laurie

birthday celebrations

with cupcakes in hand, we descended on ryan's parents' house on friday for a little birthday gathering for ryan's mom.  noah enjoyed seeing everyone, eating sandwiches, sampling the cupcakes he baked, playing with grandma's bowls/spoons, and hunting all around the house for easter eggs!

love, laurie

birthday baker

we never got a chance to celebrate ryan's mom's birthday back in march, but we did get an opportunity to have a little impromptu celebration on friday.

noah helped me make cupcakes to take to grandma's house and he really enjoyed making them, decorating them, and then eating them too!

love, laurie

lots of shows lately

we have had lots of shows lately and we have a bunch more coming up.  one of the shows this past weekend was a buddy holly / ritchie valens / big bopper / elvis tribute.  there was some wild musical instrument playing by the musicians for sure!

i imagine that if noah ever played the upright bass, he would play it upside down like this guy!

love, laurie

big saw

i don't know if many other 2 year olds know the difference between a hand saw, a table saw, a miter saw, and a gig saw . . . but this one does!

i truly don't know why we spend money on toys when he just wants dad's tools all the time.

love, laurie

leaf clean up

the kid is obsessed with cleaning up leaves in the yard.  sometimes he wants a rake and sometimes he wants to pick them up individually one-by-one . . . then there are times he wants mom and dad to pick them up while he supervises.  excuse me, sir!

love, laurie

2 going on 22

is this kid 2 or 22?  he thinks he can do every single thing we do, including attacking mom's laptop mouse because "baby do that!"

love, laurie

tool man

this kid is obsessed with playing in the basement with all of dad's tools.  who needs toys when dad has a fully-stocked workshop with every tool known to man?!

love, laurie

a few more photos from "hansel and gretel"

from our coordinating outfits, to noah's coloring page, and his love of drills, here are a few more photos from the run of hansel and gretel . . . 

love, laurie