Things are going pretty well for us at the Welch household. I finally found a nanny job for a sweet little 2 month old. I start that position this week. Wish us all luck! For our friend Brent's birthday we all went bowling! Annie, Brenty, Rory, me and the girls. It was Esme's first time bowling and she had a blast! She really got into it and before each roll she would scream at the top of her lungs in a deep husky voice, "READY???!!!! ONE!!!!!! TWO!!!!!!! THREE!!!!!!!!!!" She then let it roll. The Dude would have been proud. Scarlett has recently started to love saying the letter 'B'. She says bubba bubba, what sounds like Baby and Baa. Our favorite word that she says is 'Bob.' It is the cutest thing in the world. She'll look at you and just say 'Bob.' Rory and I told her that if she wants to call her Dad Bob for the time being that would be fine with us. Scarlett has been a busy little baby learning all sorts of things this month. She will be 8 months old tomorrow and she signs "more" for more food when eating and can do the "milk" sign for nurse. She can grab your nose when you ask her where it is and she crawled forward for the first time this past Sunday! I missed it though because I was at the store, but her father and sister swear it happened. She really can move all around the house now, what with rolling, crawling backward, and kind of throwing herself forward. Her biggest motivation is Esme and Esme's toys. Especially the barbies. The girls and I will be heading to St. Paul this weekend to spend Easter with my brother Brad and his family and we are super excited about it. Rory has to stay home because he can't ask off for the whole weekend. We will miss him bunches but at least he has some friends coming into town for a concert, so that will take his mind of missing his family a little bit. That's all I have to report for now. Will post again after the weekend in Minnesota.
We had a lot of fun this Easter! Me and the girls went to St. Paul to stay with Brad and Cristen and Rory stayed home. He was supposed to work on Easter then at the last minute he didn't have to. He could have come with but he already had friends coming to visit for the weekend and had plans to go to a concert. Even though we were apart we both had a very fun weekend. Anne and Esme had a blast coloring eggs and even more fun finding them Easter morning. I thought that it might be crazy chaos when the hunt started with shrieking and screaming and grabbing and pushing...but in reality the girls were so good about it all. They worked together finding eggs. They were overjoyed with every egg they found and just had a blast! Claire really was just all about eating the eggs. She loves hard boiled eggs so much that during the coloring she took a big CHOMP out of an egg; shell and all. Anne and Esme spent the majority of the weekend playing Princess and the Pauper. They each have the Barbie version of the story and happily pretended they were Annaliese and Erika all weekend. We were also able to spend a bit of time outside. We played in the backyard and walked to the park to play there.
