I reject your reality and substitute my own

Lorelai's new toy... I mean, Ty's new toy, is the iPad.

I NEVER have to convince Lorelai to let me take pics of her, but on this day, she was NOT into it.  This was about the best I could get her to do.  We always go to the same garden because they have a museum of all the different types of tulips and other flowers as well as being adjacent to a few tulip fields so you also get to see the magnitude of the fields.

As far as the eye can see...

I wish Mae had been looking forward, but like I said, Lorelai was not ok with pics so we were lucky to get what we got.

She doesn't latch onto binkies, but they make amazing teethers... so Mae keeps hers handy.

Fresh kettle corn is so delicious on a spring day at the festival.

Mabel's first Easter was a very good one!  I love that Lorelai is getting to the age where she cares about leaving food for the Easter bunny out and gets excited about what he will leave her.  It's also tons of fun to start introducing her to the real meaning behind holidays and have her begin to understand.   Holidays mean to much more with kids.  They really are a blessing!

I have no idea why I didn't get pics of their full Easter baskets but I did get a pic of Ty giving Mae a peep.  Ugh.  Right after this, she sucked down the ENTIRE ear of the bunny peep and began to choke.  I really thought I was going to have to start administering all sorts of maneuvers. :)  Don't even get me started about her being 5 months with candy in her mouth.

Lorelai, on the other hand, is a seasoned candy eater and could not wait to have a delicious breakfast of candy.  Ty and I have developed one rule about holidays and candy.  She is allowed to go nuts, eat all she possibly can and wants to for one day only.  After that, it is GONE! So by the end of the holiday there are guaranteed melt downs, but there will be no repeats the next day so it's a good rule for us!

Mabel got some super cute sunglasses.  I really wish she would leave them on, because she is made for sunglasses. 

Later that morning, we went to brunch with Ty's parents.  It was such a nice change.  There was no cooking, no cleaning, no mess... definitely a welcome change.  The only bad thing we encountered was no left over ham... next year I will have to make a ham the night before.

Oh this baby just melts my insides to mush... I could just eat her I love her so much.  My Aunt Kathy gave her a beautiful pearl bracelet and her wrist was finally big enough to wear it.  

The handsome hub and the beautiful babe.

I relish in the days that Grandma and Grandpa are Lorelai's best friends.  It's going to be such a sad day when they don't come first anymore.

Here are a few miscellaneous pics from the last 2 months.  Ty recently came into a few Tonka trucks like the ones he had when he was a kid and was so excited to show the girls.  This is what came of that...

Sometimes dress up is just exhausting!  Lorelai hasn't been taking too many naps lately but sometimes I still make her lay down and relax in my room watching a cartoon.  This is what I found after a particularly exhausting day

These are 2 of my very dear friends, Jordan (left) and Sam (right).  I am lucky enough that they love my kids and love to spend their time with my family, so they were pumped when I invited them to dye Easter eggs with us.  I hard boiled a few thinking that Lorelai would be excited since she loves hard boiled eggs... WRONG!  Turns out she couldn't bare to crack her pretty eggs... so, we had about a dozen hard boiled eggs go bad.  We blew out the yolks on some too, so by the time this pic was taken, we all had sore cheeks.  I love holiday craft projects and I love them even more when Sam and Jordan can join in too.

Mae eventually grew tired of the festivities and Ty put her to sleep in this comfortable position... but he sure was proud of himself that he put her to sleep anyway.

Ty's sister got us a year pass to the zoo for Christmas and we were so excited to get out there and start using it so as soon as the weather allowed, which was right before Easter, we were there!  This was Mabel's first zoo trip and she was about as excited as any 5 month old would be. 

She did really love to see the fish tank... that was probably her favorite.

My poor Lorelai... I am going to have a collection of crack pics until we can find pants that are big enough for her booty but small enough for the rest of her skinny body.

She was chasing this peacock.  Ty had 2 peacock's that ran away when he was a boy, so Lorelai thinks every peacock she sees is daddies peacock.

Lorelai was holding Mae's hand as we walked through the zoo and she was telling her all about the things we were seeing.  It was very sweet.

So that was our zoo trip... I know you would expect to see pics of animals, but I have about 12 pictures of every animal in that zoo just due to the fact that we have been so many times so this time I only took kiddo pics.  And let's be honest, they are cuter than the elephants anyway.