It was a good Easter, but in this family it's like a mini christmas. I'm glad I told my SIL let's not exchange between our kids because between Grandma and the other Aunt, we came home with quite a bit.

We hid plastic eggs this morning and Jessica loved looking for them. She thought the reeses pieces egg chocolates inside was the greatest and was sharing it with me and Jeff, so that became our breakfast, hahaha. But what she really enjoyed was the coin filled eggs. She loved running to her crayon bank with the money. She even shared with Jon and ran to his bank and filled it. She was getting sick of eating the chocolates so she would just shake it and could tell which ones had coins and just opened them, hahaha.

We kept telling her after Jon's second nap we could go bye bye and so she kept telling Jon to go night night. And I assumed he would take his 2nd nap with no problem, but he refused and Jessica's the one that fell asleep, so we were waiting on her to wake up. He didn't sleep at all until the car ride home about 730pm, and luckily he took a bottle and went to bed when we got home. It's just Jess now, that's a bit wound up, made another trip to the potty. I think she's constipated, I'll have to give her some juice in the morning. And she does a lot of crying and whining, I think her ears are hurting her still.

Jessica was sitting down eating her dinner just fine, but her cousin wouldn't sit and eat, so of course Jessica followed suit. But when the chocolate eggs came out, they were eating like they were going out of style. I have a feeling this will be how all parties go. My SIL never makes her kids sit and eat, even the 10 year old didn't eat. And she wonder why her kids don't sleep well at night. Because they didn't have a meal, or they ate too late. And this isn't just for parties, this is all the time I hear. Oh well, nothing you can do about other people's kids. Isn't a lot you can do when your kid doesn't want to eat because other kids aren't eating. At least she eats good other days. I don't put up too much of a fight at parties, maybe when she gets older I will.

We are probably 5% better, but there's still a long road ahead. We are all pretty congested. And I'm worried Jess has a bladder infection. She goes quite frequently even without a lot of liquid and one time she commented on how it hurts down there, plus all the whining and crying. I would hate to have her tested and it's nothing because she's had it done once when she was about a year old, and they use a catheder, ouch..... obviously she wouldn't know how to pee in a cup. So I might wait a few days and just monitor her and make the call maybe Wednesday. Their antibiotics will be all done with tomorrow. So we shall see. Tuesday is her dentist appointment, and I'll be dragging Jon along, during prime nap time, ugh.... I hope she cooperates, she did last time, they were shocked that a 2 year old let them clean her teeth, but she wasn't sick last time, and it was just me and her.

This parenting is not for the faint at heart....... It can sure be tough at times, but so rewarding.... Holidays are so much fun with little ones......

Garfield drove me nuts this morning...... starting at 6am..... he saw Dad was home for the 3rd day in a row, and it must be wet food day. Because he only gets wet food on Sundays. And typically Jeff only gets Sundays off. So when he gets Saturday off too, and this week he got Friday off too, Garfield was sooo confused. Anyhow, the kids didn't get out of bed until 8am, but the damn cat kept bothering us starting at 6am, so if it isn't one kid, it's another, hahaha. But I love him, he is the cutest cat... and so loveable..... so I don't really care if every now and then he's a pain in the ass.