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The birds are waking us up in the morning.  My favorite kind of alarm clock. Me and the boys stay in bed a bit longer to listen to the birds together. On our way to school we can still hear them sing.  The blossoms in the trees are coming out..we see more and more leaves!  Spring!

 (K asked me to take this pic..during our walk to school..he loves this tree)

We had an eventful week. On Tuesday K told me that he was going to teach himself how to cycle. He asked me how he had to get on the saddle.  ..and of he went...no problem with balance...no problem with the breaks...no problem at all!  ..very surprising.  His balance is good...due to the bike without pedals :-)  He has been cycling in our street and to school. He picked out his basket & the flag.

K & O had fun with the water table again this week. We set it up with : water balls. First time for O. He really enjoyed the feeling of the water balls. ..kept running his hands through it. He loved the scooping and pouring. K has played with them many times...and still loves it. It is an easy activity to set up ...great for the witching hour  (cooking dinner!).

We started our little milk carton garden this week too (told you it was an eventful week!).  K added the soil and seeds. He waters them regularly and checks each one to see if something is growing yet ...every morning. So far ...not much.

On Saturday we went to Fort aan de klop with friends. The make a wish foundation offered several workshops....circus...decorating cup cakes etc. K became spiderman! ...had fun at the cup cake table..jumped really high on the air mattress...and painted together with O. The weather was good...it was a great day.

 The end result :-)

 And they wanted to make another painting :-)

 :-)

Easter Egg painting party

Friday we enjoyed a fun visit with Alex and his parents. Alex and K had a great time playing all afternoon. Sebastiaan also joined them but he was recovering from the flue so was a bit overwhelmed by these 2 enthusiastic 4 year olds. O did his own thing and a good time.

Saturday we had a blast with our Easter Egg painting party. We had bought 40 free range eggs. K carried them home all the way from the supermarket earlier this week. He wanted to make sure nothing happened to them :-).  He was very disappointed that he wait until Saturday before we could paint them.

Saturday morning we boiled the eggs and we made our dye. We checked out several egg painting ideas from hands on as we grow.

We used 2 recipes, vibrant egg colors which uses  180 ml water,  15ml vinegar and different amounts of food coloring (depending on the color). And we used a cool aid recipe, 1 sachet of cool aid and 1 cup of water.

The kids had a blast with the paint.  F&O came over and later on Nikita joined as well. A fun afternoon. Jamilla stopped by too but we had no eggs left  :-( but we did have a good time with her. O and she played with water for a long time.

Our Easter morning was fun...we took it easy..enjoyed a Easter breakfast at home...an Easter lunch at grandma's and dinner too! We had an Easter egg hunt at home and at grandma's the boys had enough chocolate for the rest of this year! We all played ' 4 pics 1 word' on a tablet.  ...we got pretty far 100+ pics guessed right..very entertaining.

K's favorite TV  program at the moment is Huisje Boompje Beestje. This week's topic was; eggs.  K watched it several times. He loves eggs.  They did an experiment with an egg:  fill a jar with vinegar and add 1 egg. After 3 days the egg shell is dissolved.  ..so yep...we have got an egg in a jar .

Another experiment this week was ...what happens if I put a glass jar filled with rubber bands and water in the freezer...and what happens if I put a plastic jar with paint in the freezer.