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We tried to be tricky hiding the eggs, but Shelly outsmarted us...  :-)  (usually with help)

She's also potty training, and it's easier for her to use the potty if she's not wearing pants, so she's in her undies.  (We've started putting pants on her in just the last day or two - but it was not so on Easter)
She was so excited that there was nothing in the egg, she had to show the camera!  (we'd already taken all the goodies out of the eggs)

Pictures have been retrieitved

Here's some fun Easter pics.  

She made a mess with all her newly found and emptied eggs.  She sure had a blast 'cleaning up' though! :-)

Here she is pulling Doug on her bike.  She actually pulled him all the way across the bricks (it's not all that far, but it sounds good :-)

I almost forgot the best news!!

I found my wedding ring!!  It was in one of the storage thingys (wanna be glove boxes...) in my car!  I was going for a piece of candy, since that's mostly what's in that glove box, and found a surprise!  I didn't end up eating any candy, which was probably a good thing.  Anyways - good news!!

Jason keeps getting bigger!

Shelly wanted to go swimming today, and Jason managed to get filthy in the water and dirt (strange - I know) so I stripped him down and let him get in the pool. As I was watching them I saw him do an entirely new thing! He stood up! From sitting with nothing to hold onto! That boy seems to be doing everything backwards! He's supposed to be walking first, and then learn how to do that!!! He also earlier today was standing up (oh, he's been standing up all on his own for a while now) and I was trying to get him to take a step and he moved himself over about an inch! Both feet went up and then came back down. It sounds more impressing than it was to watch, but it was still fun!

Here's some random pictures that I thought were fun.

We went to the Getty with Becca while she was down the other day - there was a kids area where they could make their own masks. Shelly actually drew hers (not that you can tell in this picture)


The kids both like to think they can play the piano... It's more fun to watch than to listen too. :-)

Easter Hunting!

I need to steal some pictures from my mom. We hid all the eggs and bags that Mom Schofield sent over and we told everyone that they had 5 eggs and 1 bag to go find, but pretty much it was all Shelly. I'm pretty sure it turned out more like 1 egg for everyone else and 36 for Shelly (apparently the bags were harder to find and most people got their own). She finally caught on how to look for and find eggs. We had gone to a ward party earlier that week, and she was a little slow on the up-take, but by Sunday she had caught on rather well, and it was quite entertaining to watch. Jason was taking a nap, so he missed out on the fun.

Then on Monday we opened the balls that came with the eggs (there are usually small treats that go with Easter in the Schofield family - they put numbers in the eggs, and then whoever finds a number gets to pick a prize from the pile) and Shelly had fun letting Katie and me throw balls at her (not 'to her' - 'at her') She would retrieve the balls and then run a few steps away and turn and wait for us to pelt her. She found it quite entertaining. So did we, as long as we're being honest.

Shelly Sings

So, I'm sitting here listening to Shelly sing 'here is daddy, run away, run away, run away...' (the finger game with your thumbs - she struggles with the number of times to repeat) and it reminded me of the cutest story!

We had gone over to a friends house who lives in the ward (she happens to work in the nursery, but that's not part of the story) and on the way home Shelly was singing something that sounded like 'I am tired a lot' and we were thinking she was super tired to be making up a song about how tired she was, but when she didn't respond when we asked her if that's what she was singing, we got suspicious. So I listened more closely and realized she was singing 'I a child of God' (her words kind of slur together). After we got home Mom was looking at some pictures on her computer and Shelly would say 'that's a child of God, and that's a child of God' every time the picture changed.

Well, that's about it for that one

Bubbles

I tried to get one of Shelly reading a book to Katie, but apparently it was too big... So, instead here's one of Shelly, Jason and Mark chasing bubbles.