Spring days!

We have had some gorgeous weather in the last few weeks, though this week you would never know it. We jumped from snow to two weeks of 75-80 degree weather. It felt like we skipped spring and jumped right in to summer! We have been enjoying our time outside quite a bit.

I have NO IDEA what he was doing, but he looked cute while he was doing it. :)

I have been catching some of the most amusing expressions on Esther's face lately. She likes to wrinkle her nose at us, and her latest interesting (to her) noise is a really raspy sounding coughing noise. It makes everyone else wonder what's wrong with her, but she seems fascinated with the noise. Maybe it sounds interesting, or maybe it feels interesting to make the noise. Regardless, it is amusing trying to explain that it is just her latest sound. :)

Justin says this is a "blackmail" photo. I thin it is just amusing to look at Esther's face.

This one I think is just sweet.

And, Esther's face is highly amusing here.

 In keeping with what seems to be becoming a tradition, Esther seems determined to make her first solid food grass and clovers. She managed to nearly swallow a clover. It got stuck on its way down so I ended up having to swipe her throat to get it out, but she's very determined her first food will be green. She's even tried grabbing broccoli, kale, avocado, kiwi, and brussels sprouts off my plate!

Elias and Rebecca love to get the dandelion puffs and blow the seeds. Elias calls them his "wishes". I got told off for allowing Elias to blow the seeds. I don't know what child goes through life without blowing those little puffs though! And hey, he's saving the bees by planting their earliest blooming spring flower for them!

My sweet (though very dirty!) little boy. :)

It Looks Like Candy

We had a very unexpected, and obviously, unanticipated event here a few weeks back. I don't remember what we were doing, but I heard "Mummy, Elias ate the dishwasher soap" and that made us jump into action! While Justin worked on rinsing out Elias' mouth and getting him to drink a good big cup of water, I got on the phone with the poison center to find out what to do in the case your child decides to try out a diswasher tablet's red center. It turns out we were exactly right, and you rinse, clean their face/hands of any remaining soap, and get a big cup of water into them. It might upset their tummy and cause vomiting or diarrhea, but generally it is not going to do anything major to a kid. It's just soap, after all, lol. 

Elias informed us that "That was NOT DOOD [good]" and he doesn't want to eat another one. He thought it was a red candy in the middle of the tablet. I don't know how he got his hands on one of the tablets without tipping the rest of the container (and thus alerting us to the fact that he was getting into something). For that matter, I'm not sure how Rebecca would have either. That probably means it got left out in his reach. We keep the container even more out of reach than we used to, and are more careful than previously. But... looking at the picture below, it is completely understandable that a two year old would think the red center might be a candy!

On the left is a candy called a Spree. On the right is a Finish dishwasher tablet

Easter Eggs

We got a package of the eggs that are soy free for Rebecca and Elias again this year. They are great, because they are the size of the plastic eggs (hollow, not solid chocolate) and foil wrapped, so you can use them for an egg hunt! :)