Cheep Cheep!

The baby chicks have arrived ,and the boys couldn't be happier.

This big boy put his boots on all by himself - and even on the right feet (better than mom does sometimes)!

Sheepish

We visited the neighbor's farm on our walk to the Post Office yesterday. She had several baby lambs, most which were black. Since she bottle-feeds them, they were very friendly and happy to visit with us.

Let's Go Fly a Kite

The Easter Bunny brought kites for the boys, and luckily Easter was a blustery day.

Easter morning

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny and YMCA Easter Egg Hunt

The boys and I went to the Penobscot YMCA in Rockport yesterday for Breakfast with the Easter Bunny followed by the egg hunt. They were so good - very patient as we waited to enter, on empty tummies after being dragged out of bed and the house by 7am.

Logan was way more fascinated by the forks than he was the food.

Brody was my good eater - pancakes are his favorite.

A kinder, gentler Easter Bunny, with floppy ears and a fun painted face vs. the Mall Bunny O' Horror...yes, we attempted the Mall scene,but the bunny was "too cawey, Mommy (muffled sobs)." So these pics are it for this year.

Here we are at the beginning of the egg hunt. You can't tell from the picture, but it actually snowed that morning! A first for me, hunting for eggs in the snow.

Brody went right to work, and especially enjoyed climbing up the playsets to find eggs.

Logan thought at first the eggs were some kind of moroccas..but soon found the yummy joys inside.

Couldn't get these crazy kids to look at me for this pic.

More house pics III

Please pardon my overwhelming house picture posting...can't help myself, I'm just so eager to move in!

This is our breakfast bar - just love those corbels under the bar.


And here is the back part of the island, more kitchen counter/prep area...

the obvious...

As though Brody hasn't had enough Easter candy, he is trying to dig into Duane's mint stash at our kitchen island.

We happened upon our painter-friends...Jim mistook Brody for a wall, I guess...somehow his partner Tina has evaded the lens....watch out, Tina. We'll catch you, too!

Brody adores playing hide and seek in the closets of the house. This one happens to be in his room. Every time he and Logan are here, they immediately find a closet to hide in.

This is the floor of our master bath - Duane created a beautiful tile rug, but it's kind of hard to see in the picture.

And here is our vanity in the master bath.

Elmo love

Apparently dogs love Elmo, too...

Logan is bouncing between one and two naps a day lately...guess I pushed it too late this day. Please pardon the night-night song montage...

Colors of the rainbow

Our friends have returned from their globe-trotting, and have been working tirelessly to bring some color into our home - so far, this is what we've got (after a few "what were we thinking" do-overs)...

This is our masterbedroom, a sage-khahi color...there is a sliding glass door to the right and a small gas woodstove will be installed between the 2 windows.

And this is our masterbathroom - a lighter version of that bedroom color...

This is Logan's bedroom - one of those do-overs that was a little mix of lime/mint green, now re-painted to a kinder shade of sage...

And this is Brody's room - a snappy blue!

This is the sitting room outside of our bedrooms...and Jim, one of our painter-friends...another do-over room....ballet-slipper pink was not what I envisioned on that first color chip...much nicer in "berber white"

This is part of our foyer.

And our dining room.

Our library...

And lastly, our fireplace nook near the kitchen.

Guilty

So you turn your head for a minute, and the dog gets dumped on...here Brody is explaining how.

Innocent? I think not.

The scene of the crime.

Fugitive spaghetti.

Maine Maple Sunday

Maple Sunday is an annual event in Maine in which local maple farms open theirs doors (and sugar shacks) to celebrate this delectable treat. This time of year the days are warming, but the nights are still rather cold, a perfect recipe to get the sap moving in maple trees. The little guys and I headed to a few local farms to sample their syrup, and to witness the massive process of boiling vats of sap. The smell in this sugar shack was so sweet, just made you want to dive into piles of pancakes dripping with syrup. This is the Golden Nugget Sugar Shack in nearby Appleton, Maine.

Brody was thrilled when his summer friend, Sarah, stopped by the same farm. They romped about in the grass, grateful to run in anything but snow or mud! They were far more interested in playing than in syrup...

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Logan wistfully examining our bottleof syrup.

Brody enjoyed the traditional offering of icecream with maple syrup...needless to say, after our second farm stop and second helping of ice cream and syrup, his sugar quota was met for the day.

This ATV thing is used to collect the sap buckets from the maples.

Twinkle my little Star

Logan has begun humming the first bars of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and it is so incredibly sweet.