chicks, bunnies and snow

Hope you had a wonderful Easter holiday! We knew it was going to be a great day when we woke up to find these giant chicks from Grandma Lipsey. Thank you Grandma! They're the perfect size for cuddling. We held them in our arms almost all day, except during our Easter egg hunt of course. We needed full use of all eight of our limbs for that.


We joined Sam, Audrey, Aunt Marjorie and Uncle Stephan for church, then headed to their place for a delicious brunch and some quality playtime. Somehow we three ended up on the TV table and got away with it.


Here I am giving Audrey a kiss goodbye. Mwah!


And here we are giving Uncle Stephan a goodbye hug attack. Sam joined in the fun.


Later in the day we went for a walk to enjoy the SNOW. On EASTER. SNOW.


Stick!


Running with a stick!


I think the Easter bunny left this ice chunk for me to find.


We especially enjoyed making worms with our eggs. By the way, there's a special guest in this picture. Can you find her? Look hard. It's Grandma Lipsey, on the phone!

fine photography by zak

fine photography by wynston

regaining our marbles

And...we're back after our epic, week-and-a-half-long, family-wide battle with the flu. Yuck. No worries though, Wyn and I managed to keep ourselves entertained while stuck at home. In fact, we invented a new toy that we'll be marketing worldwide under the trademark "Yellow Marble Track." Also known as a tape measure pilfered from Dad's tool bucket.


Another diversion we discovered is playing "shadow puppets" with our flashlights. Daddy's hand makes an awesome dog, doesn't it?



Best of all, we received our final birthday presents: digital cameras from Grandma Lipsey! Apparently Mom and Dad were waiting for us to be in good enough moods to handle learning new technology. Anyway, they are absolutely awesome, and Wyn and I have already snapped over 300 pictures between the two of us. Notice how I like to use the digital display on the back of the camera to frame my shots, while Wynston prefers the old-fashioned viewfinder approach. Please check back soon for some of our best photos; we've given Mom and Dad plenty to choose from!

101.1 (as in degrees)

Something's going around big time here. Out of 16 kids in our preschool class, we heard that only six were there today. As for me, perhaps I'm already feeling a little better than I did this morning. Or perhaps I'm just remembering something Zak yelled to me across the classroom last week when Mommy came to pick us up:

"Wynston! Your mom's here!"

Hope you and yours are feeling okay...

the 411 on turning 4

Zak and I have finally recovered from all the excitement that was our 4th birthday celebration. The cake is gone, the balloons are deflated, the presents are being thoroughly enjoyed. All that's left is writing the blog. So....here goes!


One moment if you please, my mouth is full. OK. First and foremost, we had a very special visitor in town to par-tay with: Aunt Moosaw! As you can see, she was excited about it too. Here we are on Saturday morning having lunch at Egg Harbor. Yum. This was right after we had our picture taken with the Easter Bunny, but you'll have to wait a couple of weeks to see that photo. I know, I'm such a tease.


Seven of our favorite friends came over for our official party on Sunday. It was a blast!


Lunch consisted of HomeMade Pizza. This was the first time Mom and Dad let us kids in on this culinary marvel, which just opened here in Oak Park. It was pretty good, but of course it did not compare at all to dessert.


Yeah, it tasted as good as it looked. Perhaps better.


We very much enjoyed the rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" sung in our honor.


We all wore fire hats in case something went amiss during the big candle-blowing-out moment. Fortunately, though, it went off without a hitch.



Why does birthday cake taste so much better than regular cake? We must investigate both sides of this dilemma more often.




After we got all sugared up, we headed back downstairs for our traditional book exchange. Everyone was quite pleased by their fun new reading materials, even sitting still for a few moments to take a good gander.


Alright, enough of that. We all went back to jumping around like maniacs when Sam and Audrey gave us this amazing bubble machine. Thanks guys!




Even more presents suddenly appeared before us a little later. Thank you everyone! We love presents. More presents. More. More. More.


A special shout-out to Aunt Katherine, who sent us this marble contraption. Too much fun! Thank you so much to all our friends and family who shared in our big day. Love, Wyn and Zak