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The hallway can be a lot of fun, particularly when the hall closet has mirrored doors.

May 13th was National Apple Pie Day. So, what better way to celebrate than to have a playdate to honor the day. We began with a reading of Dr. Seuss's Ten Apples Up on Top.

We then made adorable yarn apples.

And topped off our celebrating by eating mini apple pies.

Leah was actually awake to play with the other younger siblings. This picture had to be captured very quickly since they didn't stay put very long!

Chad took Molly with him to buy a Mother's Day gift for me. I was shocked at how well she did at not spoiling the surprise. Chad had to keep reminding her, "Sssh, it's a surprise," when she said things like, "Daddy hided your present in his car." I eventually learned that he took her to the "computer store" and she played a Dora game on the kid computers, which made me even more impressed that she didn't spoil the surprise of where they went!

Molly painted cards for her grandmothers. She was so excited to give one to Grams and was again reminded, "Sssh, it's a surprise."

I made mint chocolate soufflés for our Mother's Day lunch. I was surprised at how well they turn out for my first attempt, and they were even on the healthier side since it was a Cooking Light recipe!

I hosted a playdate to make felt flower hair clips so that we were all ready to show our pretty May flowers! Each of the kids made two and then were off to play. I saw that Molly was still at the table and realized that she was glueing the rest of the flowers together all by herself!

This is what happens when you ask three year olds to hug to pose for a picture!

The big kids were sweet to make hair clips for their little sisters too.

Leah was taking a nap during most of the playdate, so I had the girls model their new hair clips together.

Molly has proudly worn her flower hair clips for days now. We've even found them in bed with her!

Edit: This project is super easy! Cut two different size flowers out of contrasting felt. Stack the flowers and sew a button on top. I had the kids glue the pieces together so they had more to do than just pick out colors. Then hot glue on to your choice of clip. Happy crafting!

Leah continues to become more mobile by the day. She's started scooting around (as this video shows), and has become very good at it. She also shows sign of crawling soon, but it hasn't happened yet.

Easter morning was again lots of fun. Before heading off to church, Molly had fun with Easter baskets. Warning, this video's kind of long so it may take a minute to download if you're Internet connection is slow.

Leah's started eating solid foods. This video is of her first meal (which was admittedly a month ago). She now eats lots of different mashed up things, most of which sound very gross, but she seems to like them.

Leah scoots around pretty well now. One of her favorite places to scoot to is under the coffee table. I don't know what it is about our coffee table; Molly liked to play under it too!

She's getting closer and closer to crawling. She started to army crawl (as seen in this video), and she's started getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth. We already can't count on her to be where you put her down and soon she's going to be following us around!

And now that she's sitting up, playing has become a lot more fun!

I took the girls to have Easter pictures taken in the dresses that Grams made them. Leah's dress has been worn by Molly, Emmie and now Leah, all for their first Easters!

I also had some individual pictures done to mark milestones: 3 years for Molly and 6 months for Leah.

Last week, the weather was perfect for some late afternoon bubble fun!

We were outside at least 3 times last week, and Molly even convinced Pop to blow bubbles with her when he came over one evening.

While blowing bubbles is fun, popping them is even better! Molly runs around jumping, yelling "pop, pop, pop", and poking at the bubbles. It is so funny to watch! Here she is mid-air.