Snoopy And Prickly Pete

Short sleeves are making a comeback, and we're pretty excited about it. I'm sure we'll still have some days that dip back down into the 50's (don't hate me, Rachel), but springish weather is becoming the norm. That being the case, playing inside is just wrong. Especially when we've got a fun park only minutes away.

My Precious is turning into quite the slide master. If only his rubber-soled shoes didn't grip the slide, boy howdy, he could fly. He's also learned the pure bliss of sliding down on the tummy (feet first, thank goodness).

I finally convinced him to ride the big dinosaur, but only for a moment. He asked to dismount as soon as I'd snapped the picture.

And he discovered that water fountains are good for more than just splashing.

Sunday was big fun - an Easter egg hunt with some of his best friends! Trying to get all the kids to line up for a picture was like trying to wrangle oiled hamsters, but you can see most of them here . Andrew decided to ham it up and kept walking backwards (a fun new skill) away from the group, grinning from ear to ear and delighting in having the adults watch him and call him back.

He caught on to the idea of egg hunting pretty well. Spy a colorful egg ...

... squat next to it, ask it's name and political affiliations, then pick it up gingerly if it seems friendly ...

... lay it in the basket with your other conquests.

One of the mommies more exciting than I filled her eggs with jelly beans. Andrew quickly learned to shake each new egg he came across to see if it contained treasures. He never realized the candies were something to eat so he just carried them around, occasionally pausing to study them and plan experiments.

As if the hunt and jelly bean holding weren't enough, the party ended with cup cakes for everybody! Andrew ate every crumb of his, making this cup cake event far more successful than that of his first birthday party where my suggestion that he taste a cup cake brought forth tears.

We let him come down from the sugar at Crescent Moon, one of our favorite restaurants. It was all giggles and smiles 'til he bonked his chin on the table in a sucrose-induced head-slinging frenzy.

Daddy helped make it all better...