196 + 92 Weeks

This past Sunday was Easter Sunday, and the kids woke up to an Easter egg hunt.  Carmie was very excited, but waited patiently for me to go get Arley out of bed before she started collecting eggs.  Below there is a rather long video of the egg collecting, I advise only those who are Carmie & Arley love-starved to watch it.  After our hunt and some breakfast, we went over to the farm for a family morning tea, and Carmie's cousins treated her to a treasure hunt.  The weather was perfect, and it was a lovely morning.

We have also had some really cold days this week, just like winter.  However, we still managed to get out to the park, and the kids had races on the double slide.  Arley has figured out how to climb the ladder by himself, but of course I am always hovering like a worried mum.  Arley has been quite cranky, especially when he wakes up from a nap.  He put his first two words together this evening.  He said "apple juice".  Carmie has had a couple of episodes herself this week, mostly from being overtired, I think, but they were doozies.  The latest one was tonight.  She followed me up to her room to shower and get ready for bed, but she crawled along the floor pretending to cry.  I told her it was her choice, she could stand up and have a shower and get a book before bed, or she could go straight to bed without a shower and book.  She chose shower, but then refused to get up off the bathroom floor because she apparently was too tired.  I walked out of the bathroom in frustration, and that's when all hell broke loose.  Oh, the crying, the screaming!  What to do?  I picked her up and put her to bed, which just made it worse.  And poor Arley was suffering, because all he wanted to do was shower and get a book read to him, and he got upset and started hitting Carmen.  Finally Carmie calmed down enough to ask for some "Mummy love", and I was able to put her to bed, albeit stinky, in the clothes she wore to school.  So not fun.  In fact, the exact opposite of fun.  And now I have spent the night analysing what I could have done better.  And I'm still at a loss!

Below are two videos.  The first is an awesome video of the kids on the slide, and the second is the very long egg hunt video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GMnisngOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-KsbvkDTfU