Paul's Birthday, Easter Part 1 and April fun

We celebrated Paul's 33rd birthday with birthday cake on Sunday evening, a dinner at Friendly's on Monday evening (VERY exciting if you ask Paul III and Kaitlyn), cinnamon rolls at breakfast on Tuesday (his actual birthday) and some well-autographed birthday cards from the kids. The best part of the day may have been when Paul came back into the house from getting the newspaper yesterday morning and both kids yelled out "Happy Birthday Daddy!" from the landing!

We had Easter- Part 1 last weekend at Gram and BB's along with an early birthday celebration for Paul. At one point Paul III tried to make off with daddy's Captain Morgan birthday gift... I believe this happened before...
We had to do our Easter egg hunt inside since the weather was so nice all weekend... (we won't talk about what happened to our downstairs family room thanks to the rain...)






Gram and her buddy Kaitlyn:
Some cute pictures of the kids reading in bed the other night- Kaitlyn loves to snuggle under her covers when she's reading her stories... most of the time she lets you read them to her, too!
During one of the few sunny days, we did get to play oustide and had a blast...

Easter 2010

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. We had a great weekend- and couldn't believe how sunny and warm it was!

We hadn't even gotten all the way into Gram and BB's driveway on Friday afternoon when Paul spotted the first egg- and he's off:
His shorts are almost falling down since he was running so quickly to get this egg:
The Kaitlyn dance- it involves flapping your arms up and down as if you were trying to fly:
Why hunt for eggs when I can play with mulch?
Oh- wow- there's something in the eggs!
Why hunt for eggs when I can play with a hose? About 10 minutes later Kaitlyn was drenched, Gram got squirted across her legs and we were all laughing quite a bit.
Checking out the Cheerios from the eggs:
Paul III intensely preparing for easter egg decorating- with his favorite tools... scissors and tape:
Decorating easter eggs with Elizabeth Smith on Saturday morning (note in the 2nd picture that their hands have also been "decorated"):
Reading daddy's favorite childhood book with Nana on Saturday:
Making some phone calls with Pop Pop on Saturday:
Buidling the 'boat' the easter bunny gave him (7:15am on Sunday!):
Daddy and Kaitlyn enjoying their lamb chops together Sunday evening at our house:
Trouble.... need I say more?
"No mom, I wasn't trying to reach the plate of food on my own, just like my older brother."
Kaitlyn and Aunt Char checking out another egg:
Paul relaxing after a busy, busy weekend (with his cool Cars slippers!):

April/May Video

It has been a busy few months in PA with the Redfern family. Here is a group of video clips from our times at home and in NJ for Easter. Enjoy!

Easter in NJ

We had a great trip to see Nana, PopPop, Uncle Chris and Uncle Ryan this weekend in NJ. Everyone was a good traveler (whew!) and we got home safely Sunday afternoon to finish watching the Masters.Paul enjoyed many Easter egg hunts, both inside and out. There was a trail of eggs from his room to his easter basket on Sunday morning, although he picked up whatever eggs he saw first!
There was also a fair amount of "uncle torture"- Uncle Ryan was rolled across the front yard at one point.We even got to spend a special Easter dinner with Aunt Mary Ellen, Uncle Bill, Katherine and Megan.

Easter - take one

We headed to Gram and BB's on Saturday night for an early Easter celebration. With an easter egg hunt, of course...Wait- there's something in these eggs! Cheerios!

Paul shows the proper way to eat what was inside the easter eggs...And here's what happens when we tried (unsuccessfully) to take a family picture... Daddy's eyes were closed, Kaitlyn was looking in the wrong direction (but at least awake!), Paul wanted desperately to go look for more easter eggs in the front yard, and mommy was doing all she could to keep Paul in her arms.

Happy Easter

We had a great easter night and morning. Here are some pictures from our time at home and with Gram and BB. In the top two, Paul decided (on his own) to tickle Grandpa BB while we were taking a family picture- it was quite humorous and mommy and BB decided to get him back :) . Paul has also started really enjoying building with blocks and had some good helpers today- he was especially proud of the tower of 5 or so blocks he stacked in the third picture.