Sweet kids, snow, easter and chicks

Today was a busy, fun day. The week has been busy as well.
I taught Nia on Monday, and found out they are cancelling the Monday class for now. The Friday class will go on, so Denise and I will alternate teaching that day. I taught as a substitute on Tuesday to my "home" class, a group of women who are super supportive, and it went very well. I was encouraged and motivated by teaching that class. Wednesday I taught an Art Start in kindergarten where we made hats from recycled materials. This will be our "All-School" Project, so every student in school will make one, we will have a parade on Earth Day, then display all the hats Thursday night at Author's Night, when each child's published book will be debuted. Thursday I helped out with hat-making in the other kindergarten class. Today the 3rd graders worked on their hats. What organized chaos there was!!!!!

Pictures from the week:

Snuggling on the couch before school today.....

The snow..... started this morning off and on, now coming down full force..... 5 to 20 inches predicted.....

Video from our easter egg hunt...

John's amazing egg.....

Picking up an old video here - the second day the chicks were at our house, the kids took a video:

And then we took a video of the chicks a few days ago:

More on the Constitution

Go ahead, enlarge and read.

Really, we don't put him up to these things. He comes up with them all on his own.........

Spring!!!!

We got a few packages to open........

Fun gifts.....

Opening....

Clothes!

Candy!

Peeps!

Coloring eggs.....

Decorating eggs....

Eggbert!


Dad decorating......

Searching for eggs...

High and low....

Look how many!

Big basket full!

We went to Great Grandma's house, too.

Princess.....

Pink mums for grandma:

I took this fun series of pictures of the kids - they were looking in the mirror, not at me, so it is more interesting. They are quite the posers....

Just playing around.... (right before Owen dumped his sister in the ground - aren't they cute?)

Elise and Grandma

3 generations

The kids and grandma

Of course, here is our weekly chicken update........ The weather was so nice today, we took the girls outside to play in the garden a bit. They all loved it!

Chipmunk digging and pecking:

Fluff!

Both chicks interested in a piece of chive offered by Owen:

Fluff in a strange pose:

DO you know how hard it is to get a good picture of two brown chicks against a brown dirt background?

Pecky and Brownie enjoying the day:

Pecky:

Speaking of spring, here is an update on my garden:

The peas are here!

I've got lettuce seedlings:

And spinach seedlings:

Those onions seeds I put out a LONG time ago? They survived - and here they are:

Indoors, my next batch of basil - for the garden - is germinated:

Eggplants are up:

Tomatoes are getting bigger!

Peppers are about ready for transplant:

Did I mention the "giant" cabbage Owen brought home from school? I have no idea where we will put it:

And I splurged for myself, and bought this sweet little jasmine plant at King Soopers: