Hunting Easter Eggs

Sweet Lil Adrianna finding eggs.

PaPaw took these photos, she's flashing that pretty smile at him - she LOVES her PaPaw!

Tristan is FAST!  He ran everywhere finding egg after egg.

You need an egg?

I am not a monster

We're staying in the basement at my parents' house, Mikal and Amy too. I needed to go down to get my clothes this morning and the grandkids wanted to go too. Since Aunt Amy was still asleep I didn't turn on a light but, was relying on the light coming in the door from above. The kids paused halfway into the semidarkness and I plunged ahead. I found my phone in the dark, turned it on and pulled up the flashlight app, all while walking back towards where they stood.

As I turned the light on Addy said with relief, "Ohhhhh, I thought you was a monster." giggles "I thought you was a monster"






Here she I trying to hatch her eggs.

Precious Addy

I sure do miss my sweet grandchildren. Can't wait to see them next month when we go to visit. :0)  I took this photo of Adrianna on their last day playing with me (when they lived here they came over ever Wednesday to play).

Grandkids

My handsome grandson.

As different as different can be these two are, lol.

My dainty granddaughter. ;0)

Tristan's fourth birthday

So Tristan had a party with kids and everything. He then had a second party with us, lol.



Adrianna peeking over a present.



Woo-hoo!



She looks impressed too! :0)



He just looks so kissable! He was posing for his mama, I just snapped too. Every time I see it I want to kiss his cheeks. He's growing up way too fast!



I love how he's "reading" the back.





There was fun with balloons.







And fun with jellybean pooping chickens. I started to clean up Addy's dress in photoshop, then I thought, nah, let it be. She's two, she should be messy, lol.







Tristan still loves his baby sister. He calls her, "My Anna" or "My Baby Anna".

The Grandkids

Have you ever tried to get a couple of toddlers, with sucker rings, together with a toy raccoon for some photos?



Addy says "Cheese". The raccoon has a sucker too. . .well, until Twister swiped it, lol.



If Adrianna were the older one I would swear this is a photo of my oldest two, Britney and Mikal.  Well, Mikal with brown eyes, lol.

First of the Month

Playing with the grandkids

Typically when I play with the grandkids I leave the camera alone, but yesterday morning as we played with the bubbles from the dishwater, I couldn't resist grabbing the camera for a bubble on the end of Tristan's finger shot. Not quite what I was looking for but I gave up, lol.

Turns out Tristan has found his love for pictures once again. Here, he is flinging bubbles up into the air and letting them rain down on his sister.

Adrianna loved it! Much laughter and bubble popping ensued.

They are both babbling up a storm now. Tristan talks in long sentences and his take on life often makes me smile. Adrianna holds her own, when I take her binky out of her mouth and hide it I can understand most of what she says. She calls me gamma (grandma) but Tristan constantly corrects her that I'm MeMaw - it'll be interesting to see where this ends up.

When Addy sees a camera she puts up one hand and says "cheese" lol. Immediately, after I snap she wants to see herself on the back of the camera. Then she's ready for more pictures.

I tried to get a macro of her eye, but she kept popping around my lens and saying "Boo!" so that didn't work out, lol.

This is Addy's I-can't-believe-you-just-did-that-to-me look. I was trying to get her to back away from the camera so I could get more than half her head in the shot.

Holy crap! They both got still for a moment! You could hold your breath for the length of the quiet and still have enough air to blow up a balloon. Energy!

This is Tristan's get-off-the-stepladder-memaw look. He even pointed down for me too, lol.

He has such a good heart! He is a kissing the bandaid Addy and I placed on the baby doll's head last week, on her owie. The baby is wearing the duckie jammies Tristan wore as a baby. Memories. He will be four years old in February, I can't believe how fast time flies!

The only successful eye macro of the day, the baby doll.

siblings

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. ~ author unknown

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Adrianna turned 2

I think she's unhappy that there's always Christmas decorations at her birthday party. :0) Actually, she was a very happy girl. . .most of her party. We all gathered around to sing Happy Birthday and she was beaming, looking around at us and beaming, then suddenly she clouded over and before the song was over she howled. lol We SO wish we had been running a video! Dang!

More HTC Heros than anything else, lol.

Sookie aka Patches

Sookie found a home. I know several of you fell in love with her too, but distance and such made it difficult. I'm really happy with the people who are taking her because she is only moving next door. I feel so lucky that I will be able to continue watching her grow up.

The funny thing is, she is going to the people we thought of first, when she came into our world by surprise. Our neighbors lost a dear friend, a 13 year old yellow Lab named Blue back in August, and when Surprise Puppy popped out we immediately thought of them. But we didn't know if it would be too soon, etc. I introduced Sookie to them a week ago and they fell in love. One day last week they took her home for about 3 hours to see how she fit in with everyone (they have 3 sons) and a cat. When they brought her back, they let me know they wanted her and we set up a date for her to go. The youngest boy has renamed her Patches and I think they will all be fine, but if not, she'll only be right next door. :0)

A couple of weeks ago, Sookie went to the vet and got her first shots, I snapped this with the cell phone while she hid under the bench, lol.  Couldn't remember if I had shared it, if I had, oops!

She discovered the grandkids' nerf soccer ball - she loves it! Flips it and rolls it and bites it.

Adrianna watching her. Addy and the puppy get along pretty well. These were all snapped with the cell phone Sunday - yeah we still have nice weather - shocking!

Sookie kept zipping between Addy's legs and biting the bottom of her dress, lol.

She's so feisty and fun!

Playing with daddy.

She will be missed by us all, especially her mommy.