Peer Pressure

Now that a lot of our family friends are "blogging" away on a daily basis, I've felt the urge to step up my game and post a little more often. We'll see how long that lasts! This should come as welcome news to those of you who check the blog regularly for new posts only to discover that there's nothing new to see. Hopefully I can keep up with this and give those of you who live far away a better idea of the ins and outs of life in the Balzuweit household.

I also discovered the new Picaso web album slideshow and have incorporated this to spice things up a bit. Many thanks to my good friends Cynthia, Susana, Liz and Crystal who have all inspired me to do this through their own creative masterpiece blogs!

To start things off, we had a wonderful visit with Eric's Dad the weekend before Easter. He is know as "Opa" to the kids. Sophie enjoyed playing chutes and ladders with him and he was persistent in teaching her the real rules. He even babysat Jack while the rest of us went to a birthday party for one of our neighborhood friends.

Easter weekend was very busy with a lot of fun activities. Jack's one year photo session with my good friend Crystal took place on Friday evening. To see a glimpse of the shoot, check out ccjamesphotography.blogspot.com and look for a recent post called 'blog stalker". We had a lot of fun reinacting Jack's 1st birthday with some messy cupcakes with blue frosting. Eric didn't think it was so "fun" when he saw how quickly the frosting went from cupcake to fingers to floor and all over the kids and floor. We had to act fast to contain the kids and ultimately stripped them down on the front lawn followed by a long bath.

Sunday was jam packed. It all began with Sophie searching high and low for her easter basket, eventually to be found in one of her favorite spots...the dryer. Sounds strange, but lately she really likes to help fold laundry (I'm certainly not complaining) so it was an obvious choice for the Easter Bunny. Later that morning, Eric and I had nursery duty with Sophie's class. Jack decided that his new class was not a whole lot of fun and screamed enough to get his teacher to walk him across the hall to us to join the rest of the family in the 3 year old room.

That afternoon we enjoyed a wonderful meal with our good friends The Kings, who also have a Sophie, aka "Baby Sophie". Later that day we all participated in a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt at The Seymours' and had a great time. We are so thankful to have so many wonderful friends in Atlanta since our family is all so far away!