Ellie's First Easter and Spring Time Fun

We all celebrated Ellie's first Easter with a full weekend of family, candy, and beautiful weather. Below are the details of Easter weekend and some fun in the sun from the past week.

Our little (or not so little) Easter Egg.

A family photo on our deck. It was so warm on Easter weekend. It felt like July ! A full description as to why Isabelle is naked is below :)

Ellie and Aunt Jen playing with Ellie's new bunny.

What better way to celebrate Easter then by dying eggs. Since it can be a messy job and it was 80 degrees Isabelle decided to dye eggs in her undies. Since she spilled most of the dye, that was a good idea. Thank you Grammy and Grampy for bringing the eggs and dye. We all had fun.

Grampy and Ellie napping.

Grammy and the girls enjoying the sun.

Isabelle opening the HUGE Easter baskets from Grammy and Grampy. She also got to open Ellie's baskets. So she was in heaven. Thank you for all of the great gifts. As Isabelle would say, "I appreciate it."

The girls trying out their new beach towels from the Easter Bunny.

Ellie in her Easter dress.


Isabelle is her Easter dress. A special thank to Nana and Papa for the dress! It is quite a talent to make a helmet, a bike and beautiful dress look so elegant!

Isabelle and Ellie relaxing with Nana and Papa after a fun filled day which included an easter egg hunt, delicious ham dinner, running around crazy with all of the cousins, and various kinds of candy.

The girls in their Easter dresses playing.

Two happy girls. Enough said :)

My littlest cougar.

Can you tell that I just can't get enough of Ellie's smile ?!

Ellie celebrated Opening Day at school by wearing head to foot Red Sox gear. Go Sox !!

The girls and their sun bonnets. We have been patiently waiting for spring. And we are so happy that it is finally here.

Glimpse into our week....

"Hi, I am Isabelle." I go one million miles an hour 24/7 :-)

Ellie is turning into a "big kid" right before our eyes! She is starting to sit up on her on, roll all over the place, laugh (sometimes even the belly ones) and continues to be a very mellow baby! We even think she might be getting some teeth!!

Isabelle continues to enjoy dance class! She had her fourth dance class this week and we practice her dances all the time at home. She has met a few new friends at dance class and loves eating donuts after dance class :-) It is amazing to see how Ellie and Isabelle are starting to interact with each other. Isabelle loves holding Ellie and Ellie lights up with huge smiles when Isabelle is around her. They are best buds!

Grampy "tinkering" with Isabelle.....actually they are putting batteries in a flashlight!

Congrats to Ricki and Ezra with the birth of their son Jonah. We stopped by on Sunday to meet Jonah! As Isabelle said 'He is such a cutie pie.....' - congrats guys!

The Big City

We took Isabelle into The Big City to the Children's Museum for the special Curious George exhibit. Isabelle has been excited for this big trip for about a month as it was going to be her first time of the "Big Train". Little did we know that it would also be 70 degrees and an absolute perfect day for everyone. Here are a few glimpses into the day! A special thanks to Nana and Papa for watching Ellie while we got some long overdue quality time with Isabelle!

Isabelle and Mommy on the train!

Isabelle loved playing in the Curious George special exhibit (along with hundreds of her other little friends). She spent about 3/4 of the time opening and shutting the elavator door :-)

What would a trip to Boston be without a picture with Big Papi?

Isabelle doing a bit of rock climbing!

Exploring the abundance of H2O in the Little Peep exhibit!

Touring the Boston waterfront on an gorgeous Saturday afternoon!

Need I say more.....it was a good day!

Riding the train home with our "special stamps".....Isabelle doesn't want to wash her right hand :-)

Happy St. Paddy's Day

From Isabelle and Ellie!!

Favorite pictures of the last few weeks

So needless to say we have been really slacking on the blogging. So to make up for that I have created 3 posts tonight. So enjoy !!

This first post is of my favorite pictures of the last few weeks.

Daddy and the girls relaxing before bed.

Ellie having a blast in the exersaucer.

Ellie relaxing with Grammy. She likes to be part of the fun. But sometimes she just can't hang and she falls asleep sitting up. A special thank you to Grammy for all of the baby-sitting she has been doing recently.

Big Sister and Little Sister. (Thank you Miss Laura for the cute shirts).

Nana and her girls.

Ellie just being Ellie :)

Isabelle at the playground. We had a few nice spring days and were able to get outside. We love spring !

An attempted family picture using a mirror.

My happy little girl. This picture pretty much sums up Ellie (including the squash on her face.)

A Very Special Day

Today we had the pleasure of spending the day with Marc and Jill and their team at the Special Olympics. We met some of the most amazing and warm people today. We are so lucky to have such great friends that volunteer their time to work with these extraordinary people. Thank you Marc and Jill for introducing us to your friends and to this event. We will never forget today. We are looking forward to the Summer Olympics !!

Team Mustang !!

The Forchielli men and the Spencer ladies.

Marc and the girls after the final game. Ellie really loves her Godfather :)


George and Marc with Miss Teen Massachusetts.
And yup, that is a picture of Marc, Jill, and Mickey on George's shirt.

Isabelle and her new BFF. She and Jill were inseparable all day.

A few weeks of "Firsts" for the girls

We have been very busy for the last few weeks. As you can see from the title of this entry,we have had 4 big events. Read below and I will explain......

Ellie has decided that she wants to try to keep up with her sister. So she rolled over at 4 months old. With a figure like that it is hard to believe :)

Isabelle had her first haircut. She was scared at first, but was very brave and she looks super cute with her new haircut.

Isabelle started taking dance classes. She is slowly warming up to idea of being a dancer. What she learns now in class, will come in handy when she hits the ice with Daddy. I think she is more of a hockey player than a ballerina :)

Ellie started eating solid foods a few weeks ago and is doing a great job. She loves sweet potatoes and squash. And as you can see, she is a very messy eater !