Aikin Playground & Other Randomness

My kids are growing and changing so fast and I have found myself wanting to capture every moment I can on camera. I'm not great at taking pics as you have seen in the past and if you never want to look at my blog again after some of my random posts about nothing, don't feel bad. My plans are to print these posts eventually and put them in a notebook for their scrapbooks to have when they are grown. So....anyway....nuff said bout that....the other night Kaitlyn and Aubrie were tackling their daddy and at first Emma thought it was pretty funny! Then she started fussing because she thought they were getting too rough!

Can't get enough of the pigtails!

The girls love going to Aikin's playground up the street! Here are action shots I caught!

Aubrie wanted a turn with the camera! Lovely, I know!

This was ALMOST evidence that "crack kills".....thanks for being modest for the camera, honey!

I've been playing around with a digital photo online program
called Picnik.com.....its really good and its FREE! So here are some that I've cropped and added text too.

My beautiful coworker and one of my best friends, Penny! This was at the "I Love Paris" fundraiser for Paris Education Foundation.

Kiddie Kollege Parties & Easter Hunt #2

Not sure why blogger insisted that my pics be arranged this way, but oh well. Last Thursday was the girls' Easter parties and egg hunts at Kiddie Kollege. Here is "Miss Priss" as I like to call her enjoying the treats at her party. This is her last year at KK...she is going to go to PreK next year, so it was kind of sad knowing this was her last party at KK!

Right: With her friend Tinslee...they have been together at KK for 3 yrs.

Below: Miss Becky's class with the Easter bunny.

Right: With her friend Maicey.....

Below: On the hunt for some goodies....

Listening to Miss Becky read a story waiting for the par-tay to begin!
Meanwhile, Emma's class was enjoying their party in Miss Karie's class....

With her buddies Ella and Mason...isn't Mason the cutest with all that curly hair?!Emma didn't care for the Easter bunny AT ALL....

Watching her hunt Easter eggs was so much fun! She knew exactly what to do.
My little baby isn't much of a baby anymore!

Easter Hunting #1

Well, spring has sprung and boy have the McCarter's been busy! Kaitlyn is playing softball and Aubrie is playing tball so we have been at the ball fields a lot. We have also been doing lots of Easter activities the last week. With all of this going on, I have a lot of blogging to catch up on! This first post is about the Easter egg hunt that the Poore's had for our little ones at church.

Emma has become quite the daddy's girl (always has been really, but even more so lately)....

Not sure what to think about all the egg hunting hoopla!

But having fun nonetheless!
Emma's name should have been Michael Jr.!!!
Aubrie always has lots of fun with her friend Kate!

Bring on the hunt!
Cannon and Daniel with the Easter Bunny!
"Look, mom!"

Emma with guess who!
I even got to meet the Easter bunny personally and she let me take her picture and help her get dressed! No autograph though!I was trying to take advantage of Melissa's beautiful flowers for a quick photo op....but Emma was not interested!Emma with our friend Paul....
She looks like such a big girl here! My friend Misty sent these pics of Aubrie and her son Grayson who have been friends since birth. They were having so much fun! Thanks Misty!
Picking her nose....lovely!Grayson must've not done what Aubrie told him to or something b/c she looks pretty upset! Or maybe he called her a name like "nose picker" or something....not sure! But he seems to be trying to apologize! heheheToo much drama for Grayson!"No more pics please!"
I'm really not sure what was going on with that whole series of pics....I just made up my own interpretation. Preschoolers are hilarious! Maybe not so much when they wake up at 4:00 a.m. throwing up like Aubrie did this morning. She was in my bed too! Eeewww! By 5:30 a.m. I had already had a bath AND a shower! Probably more of those to come!

I have to tell a quick story: Thursday night after Aubrie had been to her school Easter party and egg hunt (pics of that to come), I was asking her about her day, etc. and realized that she may not have a clue what Easter is all about....with the eggs, bunnies, etc. we seem to lose focus on the reason that this holiday is observed by so many! I said, "Aubrie, do you know the real reason we have Easter?" I figured she would make some reference to all the secular events that had been playing out around her all week. But she reassured me through this brief but but profound (for her age I think) conversation!

Aubrie: "Yep! We have Easter to Celebrate!"

Me: "Celebrate! Celebrate what?" (again expecting something about the Easter bunny)

Aubrie: "We celebrate Jesus dying on the cross for our sins, mom! And he rolled the stone away and he isn't dead anymore!"

Guess I was wrong! Happy Easter everyone!