Easter morning

The kids were so excited when the Easter Bunny came to our house on Sunday morning.

They had a few goodies in a basket...mainly, the Frozen movie, Mags for a Rapunzel doll, and Colin got a Rescue Bot transformer.  There were just a few candies in there (you know, the ones that Brian likes to eat...) and some sidewalk chalk.

Both kids saw some eggs hidden in the house right away, to which Colin commented, "the Easter Bunny didn't do a very good job at hiding the eggs".

Anyway, here are some pics from Easter morning

We went to 8 am mass with all of the Teson family and we almost took up an entire row (Chris and Caitlin were in South KC with her family, but if they would've been there, we would've had the entire pew!)

Afterwards, we headed to Grammie and Grandad's for some brunch and playing outside.

It was a beautiful day, we spent it all outside

 Our family Easter picture

 Maggie kept insisting on "fwinging" all day - she loves that thing!

And Colin spent a lot of time practicing his baseball swing while the older boys played some weird version of kickball "pig", which was pretty intense - there were definitely some grass stains on their pants from diving for the ball.  

We had a wonderful time with family all weekend.

Pre-Easter celebrations

This is a very picture-heavy post, but we had such a lovely time today celebrating Easter with both sides of the family.  It was a beautiful 75 degrees outside with the sun shining.

The kids woke up super excited about Easter and they did really well with following our instructions (except for the 'not eating a ton of candy' one, that was a little sketchy!)

 Coloring Easter eggs - except I forgot to get dye, so we just used my liquid Crystal Light water flavors 

Oops!

Then we headed off to Memaw's house to spend some time with the Dudley side of the family

 So proud of his Easter egg he made

 Maggie's Easter egg

 Plus Memaw had a HUGE empty box to play in, which was a lot of fun

 A squinty picture of my loves right before we hunted for some Easter eggs in Memaw's yard

 Maggie LOVED her nail polish she got in some of her eggs

 The best picture I got of the 4 of them - don't mind Gordy - he was a little off schedule today and had this concerned look about him all day!

 Uncle Chad making Gordy smile - he was asleep even with all the commotion going on

Then we headed off to Grammie and Grandad's for more Easter fun with the rest of our cousins.

There's a bit more going on with 10 cousins on this side.

The kids did ANOTHER Easter egg hunt, they got lots of practice today!

The Teson grandchildren - all 10 in total

It was a wonderful day filled with lots of joy and celebration.

Crazy kids

Seriously, some times these kids just make me smile so big - mainly because they are CRAZY!

Oh to be care free and think everything is hilarious!

For instance, I cut off the top of a potato chip bag (so we wouldn't have to dig so far in to get the crumbs left in the bottom of the bag), when Colin realized it would make a wonderful hat...

Then, while getting ready for bed the other night, I heard some massive giggling fits coming from our spare bedroom.  I come in to find the kids doing gymnastics moves on the closet clothes hanger bar. 

 The kids are really pretty strong, they held it like this for quite a while

And of course, we had to do it again the next night...

Let's hope whoever put the bar up in there did a good job, 

cause it's definitely getting some weight hung from it

And a quick update on Colin...

We took him to an E&T specialist this weekend to find out that his tonsils are occluding his throat about 75% and that his adenoids are HUGE!  So, that means we will get both taken out in about 3 weeks. 

It's one week of doing nothing but laying on a couch, followed by one week of easy daily activities (like going to school, but no playing outside or running around). 

We are glad to get it done quickly because we want Colin to be able to play in the pools when they open on Memorial Day weekend, as well as enjoy our family vacation coming up the first part of June.

The surgery doesn't take long (about an hour total), but please say prayers for our little man's quick recovery and for the surgeon's steady hand! ;)

Cheesin' it up at the doctors office- what goofballs!

April happenings

This month is just flying by!

Good and bad, I guess.  Maggie's birthday is going to come up real quickly, but I have been working a lot of my school work (successfully), and the weather is starting to behave like spring, so we have been outside a lot soaking up the sun.

Meanwhile, we had a first here at the Teson house.

Colin ruptured his eardrum last week because of an ear infection.

Both kids have had ear tubes, and both kids have had these ear tubes fall out since then (they are only supposed to stay in for about 2-3 years).  Anyway, lately we have been having some issues with both of them getting ear infections again - oh JOY!

Colin, in particular, seems to have his symptoms show up very quickly.

He went to bed find on one night, then woke up around 10:30 screaming and crying in pain.  The medicine did not seem to help at all, and we finally got him to calm down enough to sleep at 3 am.

Yes, that's right, 4.5 hours of screaming before he settled down.  Then, he woke up at 6 am and reported to me, "mom, I just coughed, and then water started coming out of my ear!"
I took him to the doctor a few hours later (with the gunk still streaming out of his ear), and we left with a diagnosis of ruptured ear drum, and two antibiotics.

We see the ENT specialist on Wednesday for more evaluation of his snoring issues at night (and now for his ear infection stuff!)

Here's Colin right before the doctor appointment.  We got to the walk-in clinic a few minutes early (I wanted to make sure I got the first 1st available spot open), and he thought it was awesome he could stick his head out the sun roof on my car.

Notice the cotton ball in his right ear - that stuff was NASTY coming out.

It drained for 3 days and has now finally stopped. 

Brian and I got to go out to dinner on Friday with my colleagues.

Dr. Sabath took us all out in celebration of him finishing his book chapter (and for Dave and I helping him out  with that endeavor)  We went to Cooper's Hawk on the Plaza and had a lovely evening!

Thanks to Grammie for coming over to put the kids to bed so we could have a few hours to ourselves!

The Exercise Physiologists (and their spouses) at Children's Mercy

Oh, and we are in full swing for Easter here at our house.

Colin had his Spring Party last week at school and Maggie has hers on Wednesday.  I signed up to bring in "something sweet", so I made white popcorn Bunny Bait!

Maggie and Colin helped with the M&M's and sprinkles.

Such a pretty girl!

Can't believe she will be 3 in just a month.

We are going to celebrate Easter on Saturday with my side of the family, then do our own Easter egg hunt on Sunday morning, followed by Easter Mass and then brunch at Grammie and Grandad's with all of the cousins!  Looking forward to a nice holiday spent with family and friends!

Brian's birthday

We had a wonderful time celebrating Brian's birthday last weekend.

It started off with donuts in the morning for breakfast, opening his presents, and then going to a restaurant after work for dinner.

Brian got a new Royals shirt and a BluRay player for our bedroom (sometimes on the weekends when the kids wake up TOO early, we let them watch part of a movie - Netflix is AWESOME)

Brian chose 54th Street for dinner and we were there early enough that we got some Happy hour deals and all just shared two appetizers.  Yummy!

This past weekend, we did some more painting around the house.  We are trying to tackle one little area at a time, mainly using nap time and evenings as our dedicated time to paint.

Colin wanted to help me trim, and as you can expect, that didn't really work out very well (I let him attempt a corner and it got messy really quickly).

But, he was happy to paint a picture for me in the middle of the wall.

Apparently the top picture is Colin and the bottom one is Maggie (notice the pigtails!)

He is so cute - we obviously painted over it, but I had to document the mural.

Kindof reminds me of cavemen paintings -  :)

We hope Brian had a wonderful birthday.  Seriously couldn't ask for a more patient and loving Daddy.  Hope #33 is a great one!