Easter and Exciting News

Our son's Battle of the Book team had a competition between all of the kindergarten teams at his school and they won! The students had to read 5 books and try to learn the titles and authors. Leo was placed in a team in his class and they first had a competition with his class. His team won and moved on to the next round. Today they went into the cafeteria and in front of the entire kindergarten they had 15 questions. If they knew the book they buzzed in their answer. They got an additional point if they knew the author. Leo's team did a great job. Next week they will compete against all of the kindergarten teams in the district.

He is on a team with Bella and Alexa.

Here are the students watching the competition with Leo's teacher Mr. Jordan on the side. I have a great video of Leo answering a question, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to load it. Bummer.

On Easter morning we were at Mimi and Papa's house. Papa had to give Little Miss a lift to get the high ones.

It was so hard to get pictures of the kids because they were moving so fast

most of the pictures were blurry.

The cheering squad.

Little Miss counting her haul.

Baby Boy could have cared less about all of the commotion.

Once everything settled down we watched conference and had a mellow morning.

Papa made swedish pancakes.

Baby boy woke up, but still wasn't too impressed with everything.

There was a lot of reading books. Over and over again.

On Saturday afternoon we had Leo's soccer jamboree.

He played really well and scored a goal for his team.

Midge was so cute. She would run over to the sidelines and help Leo cheer on his team.

My favorite part is at the end when the parents make a bridge for them to run under. Ken is in the grey jacket, Midge is across from him, and Leo is running by in the shorts.

Saturday morning we were able to go and see the newborn chicks at the farm store.

The chicks were only 3 days old.

Right before the chicks we went to our favorite Easter Egg Hunt at Gray's Garden Center. Usually this is a great hunt. They hide eggs all over the landscaping plants and the kids have a great time finding them. This year they did it differently because it was raining. They hid the eggs under the covered area and had everyone go in to the building. Instead of bringing out all of the children and letting everyone start at the same time they opened to small doors and yelled go. Since we were at the back of the line by the time our kids got out the doors all of the kids from the front of the lines had already gotten the eggs. You have a small number of kids who had 20 eggs and a ton of kids walking around with none.

A sweet little girl came up and shared her eggs with Little Miss, Midge was able to find 3 eggs, and the kids shared with each other. I thought it was a sweet lesson is sharing and being grateful for what you have, but the kids were a little disappointed.