Bejeweled

Luke has decided that he loves jewelery. Slight problem, I don't (bet you thought I was going to say he's a boy... come on he's not even 2) So he has to do a lot of improvising. Luckily I do have a lot of hair ties for pony tails (or toty tails as we call them) and if those aren't handy we can always make a lovely bracelet, necklace, or ring out of play dough. These products coming soon to an etsy shop near you :)

This weekend we were all set to refinish our cabinets, but the paint store closed before we could get there, so we figured, hey why waste a perfectly good three day weekend and headed to Arches.




Apparently we have solidified the tradition of going to McDonalds for breakfast on vacations. Because when we were trying to explain to Luke what was going on all Bryan had to do was tell him we were going to the Mountains, with the birds and the big Fry and he was on board and seemed to know what was going on.



Last month when we went to Zion Luke was really into birds at Arches he was on the lookout for rabbits?????? None to be found. But we did see quite a few lizards and had a good time with some lizard hunting.




These two pictures where at the Sand Dune Arch, kid heaven. Just a huge sand box ending in an arch. Next time we will bring shovels.



This was a spectacular view with a fun little climb to Double Arch. Luke has become quite the little climber. He also learned how fun it was to ride on daddy's shoulder's. When we got home and Bryan was mowing the lawn Luke went out and rode on his shoulders.

Following in his father's footsteps

Easter

Easter week brought a new word to our vocabulary CANDY. Luke pretty much wakes up asking for candy. We participated in 4 Easter Egg hunts. The first on he got three eggs. He was just enjoying the outdoors etc and then once he realized that there were eggs filled with candy he would take the egg dump the candy in his basket and re hide the egg. It can't help that I got him the worst basket, it has two handles, so every time he reached to put something in, he would dump everything he already found. (rookie mom mistake) But by the time actual Easter came around he was making some pretty serious maneuvers to get the eggs, jumping up and down each time he found one and getting his grandmas to open each egg for his and tell of his spoils. What a difference a week ( and a whole lot of practice makes)






We also dyed eggs a couple of times, on for FHE, and once with Bry's fam. I learned the best tip from some magazine I get. Use wisks...sorry I realize this is a little late to be helpful for anyone, but store it in your brains for next year, it was really easy for Luke to be able to dip by himself. It didn't eliminate the mess mind you, but that's what makes it fun, right.