December 2 = Family Picture Day

Oh my goodness- so the church we go to- King Grant's Fellowship- has a program where they have a photographer and a Santa and they decorate and they have families with kids with special needs come in and give them a family picture.  It's amazing.  The lady that coordinates it has a son on the spectrum and so she understands how difficult it can be to get a good family picture.  So they have volunteers to get the kids' attention- they have stuff to keep the kids occupied before picture time so they're not "over it" by the time the camera's ready.  And this is now one of my most prized possessions:

April 5 = Easter!

Warning- lots of pictures to follow.  Full disclaimer: I've posted a fraction of the pictures I took.  The one thing I don't have a picture of is the before shot of the Easter baskets.  Malia got some age appropriate snacks and a little doll and Liam got some kinetic sand and a music set.  Here's Malia with her mummum.

And then we did a photo shoot:

Zachary even caught one of me and Malia sharing a book called "I Love You Little One."

We really, really meant to make it to church today.  My friend, Amy, invited us to join them for a Easter Egg hunt at the Naval Academy that started at 12:30- we go to the 11:15 service at BACC and there was no way we would have made it in time so we planned on going to the 9:30 service.  That didn't happen.  But I did find a book about Easter and read it to the kids- not quite as good as going to church but it worked.

We headed over to the Naval Academy- it was quite cold! Liam met the Easter bunny:

And Amy got some pictures of the four of us:
 

And then the Easter egg hunt began.  There were a few sections of a field roped off and on the count of three the ropes were down and kids of all ages trampled each other to get to the hundreds of eggs laying on the ground.  Some of the eggs were picked up and thrown back down and those were the ones Liam got.  It didn't bother him a bit.