I usually take a lot more pictures for Easter. I was a slacker this year. The kids had fun dyeing eggs. They get more creative every year.
Mostly dead...still beautiful
Tommy ordered a praying mantis egg from our favorite insect website. It took a few weeks for it to hatch. There were at least 100 babies. They were surprisingly very cute. Tommy's original plan was to sell them for $1 each. I thought that was quite entrepreneurial of him. I had to let a few go in the backyard because someone forgot to close the habitat all the way and they were all over the top of it one day. Then, inexplicably, Tommy just let all but one of them go in the backyard one day. We wish he would have consulted us so we could tell him it was going to snow the next day. It was his project though so we tried not to second guess him too much. The sole mantis died a few days later. Tommy was pretty sad. Insectlore should really not sell anything to us anymore.
My sister and her family came to visit the weekend after Easter. The kids had a great time playing together. Mike and I had to work the weekend but that was part of the plan. My sister watched the kids for us while we worked. She did a great job of managing Tommy's diabetes. It's nice to expand the list of folks we can trust to watch him. She took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese's, Lowe's kids workshop, a Pokemon tournament, basically more than we do with them in a month. I was so happy to have time to talk to her. She is awesome and I wish I could see her more. She braided Katie's hair which is not easy. Katie keeps asking me why it is that my sister can braid hair but I can't. I just don't want to. When she went back to school after Kathy had gone home, Katie said, "I wish Aunt Kathy was here to braid my hair today".
Here they are. Those two little curly headed ones are trouble when they get together.
We were all very sad to see them go.
