Messy weekend

I will post pictures and blog about Cooper's birthday party in another post.  I need to get all the pictures from my friend Caren (who was so great to snap them all for us while I was doing the behind the scenes for the party and Chris was videographer). Instead, here's the recap for rest of the weekend:

Friday

Chris had to take Scout to the vet to get her a couple of shots she needs updated on, and to check her itchy feet.  She's been scratching and chewing on her feet like crazy and benedryl wasn't helping.  The vet said she just allergies and to gave us some medicine for it.  So far her feet are looking better and she isn't itching as much.  A few hours later Chris went to his guitar lesson and I took the kids shopping by myself.

It is always so much work to go out alone, so I don't do it much.  I took them to Children's Place because there was a great sale going on and I had a 15% off coupon for Cooper's birthday.  We got a lot of cute clothes!  I tried going to Target after that to get some miscellaneous items, but Charlotte had a melt down so we just left.  I decided to just head home and see if she needed a second nap.  She cried most of the way, then suddenly stopped and started laughing and playing.

I decided we could make our last stop and buy Cooper's birthday cake.  Then we went home and I put the  kids down for a short nap anyhow since they were both so cranky (teething is killing us all).  After the kids went to bed for the night we wrapped all the presents and got their Easter baskets ready.

Saturday

Post coming soon...Cooper's birthday party.

Sunday

Easter!  We gave them their baskets after about an hour after getting up this morning.  This is how it started, Cooper and his basket on the left and Charlotte and her basket on the right.

And these are the baskets they really wanted:

 

Cooper liked his sword (it's nerf):

Charlotte loved her necklace:

Neither of them liked the feather boa, so we tried it on Scout and she kept trying to eat it so Chris had to hold her head up:

After I went to the store to buy stuff for dinner (totally last minute...sooo busy!) we dyed eggs, er, babies.

Just starting...notice how clean they look.

Charlotte double fisting.

Mmmm, tasty eggs.  So glad I left out the vinegar in the dye.

Cooper listening to mommy.

Charlotte listening to mommy.

Cooper banging the hard boiled eggs together.

Mmm, eggs.  Look at Charlotte balancing the dye. 

That didn't last long.

Drinking the dye.

Or chew on the cup.

The aftermath in the tub.

Love their faces: 

And the works of art.  Notice the smushed egg.  They sat on it.

Charlotte took a nap.  We are never able to take a picture of her sleeping because she is such a light sleeper and wakes at the sound of a pin dropping.  She stayed sound asleep even with Cooper peeking in on her and laughing:

We had a great dinner.  The kids know how to get through the baby gate/proofing and made big mess:

And now we're going to try to scrub some of the egg dye off and put them to bed.  Now to start another week...we have Chris' birthday this Thursday (and Cooper's is on Tuesday), plus we also have their well baby check ups and we're going to the zoo on Saturday.