Walking…root beer floats…and bunny faces

The kids were so sad to see Becca go…but we’ll see her again in a few months.In return for one nice picture from everyone we did one silly picture.  This is kind of scary…Jessie’s been working on anther pillow. It turned out so cute.  She was especially proud of her bug that she satin stitched to dot the “I.”Ken is singing a solo in our ward’s Easter program and asked his mom to help play through his part.  Then Mark and Abbie joined in singing the other parts of that song…and before we knew it they had sung through every number the choir is preforming.  Ken’s mom is so amazing! She just sight read all the music for them.  The kids loved it.After the singing, the rest of the family joined us (some by Skype) and we celebrated Brain’s birthday.  Mark lit most of the candles for us and Spencer declared that since Brian was his middle name he should be the one to blow them out…but all the kids joined in.  I’m glad we still celebrate Brian’s birthday even though he’s not here to join us.  That makes him a real and important person to my family.For FHE Mark did our lesson and we acted out Nephi going to get the plates.  Abbie was Nephi and had to cut off Laban’s head.  Do you love how she even held on to the hairs of his head….it’s a good thing I haven’t given him a haircut yet (even though he really needs one!).  Jessie (who was playing Laman’s part) really had the wiggles tonight and kept trying to make everything “funny” much to Abbie’s chagrin.  Here in the middle she’s pretending to be a plam tree while we hid outside the city walls waiting for Nephi to return.  Abbie returning with the plates and Zoram (Spencer).  It never says in the scriptures that Zoram had a sword, but Spencer was convinced that it was a necessary part of his costume – he is all boy!Spencer was SO excited to show me his prize from choir.  He even shared them with me for a bit…he tried to share them with Neil too, but Neil just wanted to eat them.Spencer pulled out the potato heads while I was sewing a baby blanket.  He wanted to make sure they all looked like boys.  I asked him about the one with yellow hair and he informed me that it was not hair but a party hat.  Lately he has loved spiking his own hair.I took a break from sewing and played with Neil.  He loved the walker toy and I helped him push it all around the basement.  I can’t believe he’s almost walking…where’d my baby go?Mark needed a two liter bottle for a school project and since we never drink soda we had to go buy some.  Jessie was really pulling for Sprite, but Root Beer is what we ended up with.  Mark and Rachel happily dished up ice cream after dinner for root beer floats… I think they both had two (but someone deleted my picture of Rachel and Mark…)  Spencer declared that he didn’t like root beer floats but we convinced him to try one anyway and he magically changed his mind.Neil has suddenly decided that he no longer eats food from baby spoons….Ahhhhh…..Ken scooped out his rice cereal and baby food and put it on his own plate and fed Neil with a metal spoon and he gobbled up all of it.   SO SILLY.  His mom doesn’t really humor him as much as his dad and he still has to eat from a baby spoon during the day.