Easter Part 2

This is the egg hunt that the Easter bunny set up at our house.  He did a very good job of hiding them!

He hid the hard boiled eggs that we had dyed the day before, luckily Naomi found them all.

Here she is with her basket full of eggs!  We turned these into deviled eggs and egg salad.

We also had an egg hunt over at a friends house.  I'm not sure if she and Max are going for two different eggs or if they are fighting over one.

Coming for the backyard with a basket full.

She did pretty well for herself!

And a pretty pose with her eggs.  Thanks so much to the Kofchur family for having us over for Easter dinner!

Easter Part 1

Naomi and Michael dyed eggs before Easter.  I got in on the action too, but I had to take a couple of pictures first.  And yes, she's not wearing a shirt, we have found over the years that egg dye + clothing + Naomi = a big mess. 

Here are some of the eggs we dyed.  I think we did almost 3 dozen in the end (lots of egg salad and deviled eggs!). 

This year we also helped to organize a community Easter egg hunt for our area.  These are all the eggs that were returned to us after the event (hopefully it was all of them).  I put them straight into the tub for a bleach water bath!

Here are the ladies who helped out with the event, they worked hard!  We're all sitting on the bouncy house that we had at the event :-)

Legoland California

I never even imagined what could be done with Lego's!  I built small houses and maybe vehicles when I was a child, but never full (and detailed) cities!

Naomi is looking at a farm.  The buttons (she's pushing one, not sure which) make the animals move and make noises.

Michael is standing in front of one of the structures in the New York section.  My husband is not a short guy, so you can imagine how tall this building is!

This is in the medieval area.  Naomi is jousting! 

Captaining a Lego boat.  Within the canal of water, these boats could go any direction, even do a 180 and go back in the opposite direction.  That's a little disconcerting when they encourage young children to be the drivers.  We ran into one kid who had decided to go back to the beginning.

This is the driver's school for kids ages 3-5.  Naomi had a blast, and it gave me real hope for her future!  She didn't have a single accident, she stayed in the lines, and she never went the wrong way.

Naomi and Michael in front of the entrance.  This was taken at the end of the day because we were just too excited in the morning!

Oceanside Beach

One of the days of our vacation was spent at the beach.  It was a little overcast and breezy, but still plenty nice to put on swim suits and go play.  This was Naomi and Michael's first trip to the beach/ocean.

Naomi has been wanting to build a sand castle for ever!  We have plenty of sand at home, but it just doesn't seem to reach the correct consistency even by adding water, so we made sure to pack all her building tools.

She and Michael made a very nice Sandcastle while I stood up on a ledge guarding the rest of our belongings.

We also took a walk out onto the wooden pier.  We saw some people fishing from the pier and lots of birds including flocks of pelicans.  We ate a restaurant out at the end of the pier which was a really neat experience.  We will definitely return to Oceanside in the future!

Princess Lunch

If you've never had lunch with a princess, you definitely should!

We ate lunch at Ariel's Grotto as part of Naomi's Birthday Trip, of course we had to have a picture with each princess that came along.

Here she is with Ariel, in her human form of course.

Sleeping Beauty a.k.a. Princess Aurora

Belle

And don't let Michael blame this blurry one on me, he was in control of the camera!  I don't blame him though, the camera just had a melt down, I guess it must be a big Belle fan.

Cinderella

And Snow White

And after a delicious lunch with beautiful princesses, a little shopping was in order.  We didn't actually buy this, but I thought she was just too cute to pass up a picture.

5 Years Old!

Naomi had some picture's done by a very talented friend.  For some reason 5 year olds get that fake smile that looks like they are in pain, this is a collage of the best pictures.

So my little girl is no longer a preschooler, she will start kindergarten in August, we have kindergarten round up in about a week and a half. 

I took her to her five year check up and she is of course perfect ;-)

She is 43.5 inches tall and weighs 43.5 lbs.  The nurse joking said she was Sponge Bob Square Pants and Naomi gave her the death look.  Luckily the nurse didn't take it personally and just laughed it off.  While at the check up they also tested her vision.  She has great eyesight and was able to use the letters instead of the symbols, the nurse and doctor were duly impressed! 

The gave her the typical 60 month evaluation:

• Does she use sentences with at least 4 words - as I'm reading this questions Naomi says "I think I'm going to color this rabbit entirely red, because red is my favorite color today!"...yup, I think she used at least 4 words.
• Can she copy her name after you've written it below - well I read that one incorrectly and just asked her to write her name, preschool has taught her well.
• Can she count to at least 15 - she had just spent the 5 minute ride from preschool to the doctor's off counting to 100, all good.
• And so on and so forth - ending summary, we have a smart kiddo.

Other than that the 5 year check up is pretty boring, no vaccinations again until she's 11, much to Naomi's relief.  The doctor wanted to make sure we new all about the child seat rules.  She talked to Naomi a little bit about strangers, reminding her to never take food, candy, toys, etc from someone she doesn't know.

So all's well in the Wildman household.  We are all busy and we may be blown away by this New Mexico wind, but we are also all happy and for the most part healthy (I have a cold, but I'm sure I'll be over it soon).