Buchanan Babies: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Last weekend Elzi and Lillian participated in their first easter egg hunt at Aunt Amy's house. Lately, they have been putting things in containers and then carrying the container around, so I thought they were ready to hunt easter eggs. I think they did pretty well. Of course, they instantly picked up the eggs, like they do to everything they see.

Elzi found an egg!

Daddy's helping Lilly get started

Elzi was with me and Lilly was with Daddy. At first, Elzi wasn't quite sure what to do with the eggs after she picked them up. Then, her cousin, Parker, put a few eggs in Elzi's basket. She seemed to take the hint and started putting eggs in her basket. Of course, there was a lot of pulling the eggs out of the basket, shaking the basket, and dumping the basket, but I think that, overall, it was a successful first easter egg hunt.

Typical Elzi face

Elzi abandoned her basket and ran around

We all enjoyed Jello eggs together

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Flashback: First Christmas (kinda)

Since the girls spent their first Christmas in the hospital, we really consider Christmas 2009 to be their first. They had a great time playing with the toys Santa and their Grandparents got them, but of course, had just as much fun playing with the bows and wrapping paper!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Flashback: First Birthday Party

I must send my sincerest apologies for so sorely neglecting my blog. Now that I am feeling better about being caught up on things, like cleaning, I realizing all the other things I used to do. I am going to try to do a better job of updating the blog, but first I need to backtrack a bit to fill in the several month gap, starting with Elzi and Lillian's first birthday party.

On Saturday, December 19th, 2009, we celebrated Elzi and Lillian's first birthday with family and friends at our house. The night before, we got the first of many significant snow falls. It was enough snow to trap Nana and Papa Buchanan in Morganton, and the only reason Grandma and Grandpa Harris made it was that an ambulance got stuck in their neighborhood, so their road had to be plowed. All of the girls' aunts, uncles, and cousins were there, as well as their Great Grandma, Doris.

Mommy made a fly boat cake, just like the one on the "Wonder Pets," for all the guests. For their first taste of cake, Elzi had a Ming Ming (the duckling) cupcake and Lillian had a Linny (the guinea pig) cupcake. Lillian was unsure at first. She stuck her finger in the icing, slowly tasting it, and eventually breaking the cupcake apart and eating it. Elzi, on the other hand, after getting upset about her party hat, stuffed the entire cupcake into her mouth. In true, one-year-old form, the girls got cake and icing all over their faces, and had a blast!