Easter weekend

Griffin had fun on Saturday of Easter weekend playing with some water and food coloring in a squirt-bottle while Daddy cleared the snow off the driveway.







He also had lots of fun playing in the ball pit his Aunt Gretchen gave him. He even got Mama and Grandma Lynn to join in the fun!





Rohan got some good quality sleep time in Daddy's arms.



And Caden was showing off his grins and smiles to Grandma Lynn.



Here's Grandma Lynn proudly holding her two newest grandsons, who are all business.



We spent some time playing video games as a family.



On Sunday morning, Griffin got to hunt for Easter eggs and couldn't decide what to play with first from his Easter basket stash:



Later that day we all went over to my uncle Wayne's house and got to see Wayne & Melody and all their kids and grandkids. Griffin was a little shy at first, but he warmed up to all those people after a while. The babies mostly slept. :-)

All in all it was a good Easter weekend!

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Whirlwind weekend

The weekend went off as planned. Almost. Saturday morning I called my dad, who was going to show up around noon, and asked him if everything still looked good. His reply? "Yeah, I'm still coming up tomorrow!" Uh...what? It wasn't a big deal, we were able to shuffle things a bit so we could hang out with my dad on Sunday morning, which gave us Saturday morning to just chill around the house.

Saturday evening we took the family to Reuben's place and hung out with a bunch of friends and friends' kids. Seeing my kid(s) play with my friends' kids will probably never stop being weird. It's like looking into a hall of mirrors where you see images of yourself, but smaller, repeating forever into the distance. Anyway, Griffin had an awesome time playing with the kids, and Dina and I had a great time with our friends, too.

Sunday morning my dad came over and saw Caden and Rohan for the first time. They treated him like one of the family, spitting up on him almost immediately. That's a sign of true acceptance right there! That afternoon we went to an indoor Equinox egg hunt (no wait...EASTER egg hunt) that was put on by the local Mothers of Multiples group that Dina recently joined. Eggs, easter bunnies, dozens of families with twins and triplets...with all those signs of fertility a woman could probably get pregnant just breathing the air in there. We met a family that lives close to us that has kids whose ages line up pretty close to our kids' ages; we'll probably be spending more time with them in the future, so that's cool. It's bizarre seeing so many twins and triplets in the same room. I was comforted by the fact that all the other dads there looked just as tired as I did. I'm glad I'm not alone!

And then, of course, Sunday night was D&D night at Ben's. R.I.P., Gary Gygax. The session followed the typical pattern of very little role-playing and a whole lot of hanging out and chatting, which was awesome. I managed to trade a bag of Cheetos for a six pack of Ryan's homebrew Irish stout. That's a win in my book! I left sometime around 11:00 p.m., and had some mundane stuff to do at home before I could go to bed, so this morning is a tired one. Hooray for coffee!!

Where did the last month go?

Since I last posted, it's been a long month of changing diapers, staying up late, making time for Griffin, and staring at babies. I've been back at work, which means my time at home is much, much busier, leaving little time for blogging. But I plan to get back into regular postings!

Dina sent me some great pics today at work. You can see how much bigger these babies are getting! They're looking more and more like little people every day.


Here's Griffin grabbing on to the baby toy, Caden looking fascinated by it, and Rohan looking bored of the whole thing.


And here are Caden and Rohan being very expressive. This is great to see! They're starting to progress beyond the "eat/poop/sleep/repeat" phase. Woo hoo!


This weekend looks to be busy, but fun. Saturday around noon Grandpa Dice (my dad) and Great-grandma Fran (his mom) are coming up to visit for a couple hours. That evening, Dina and I are piling our family into the minivan to trek out to River Falls to Reuben and Carrie's for Halvard's birthday party. There will be a number of other kids and babies there, plus a bunch of the Jabberboard crew as well. Should be a good time! Then on Sunday night I'm heading over to Ben's place to play D&D with a bunch of other D&D nerds, in memoriam of Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons. I am far more excited for this than I have any right to be. I even bought a brand spankin' new set of dice for the event! And yes, the set includes a d12. I refuse to believe the D&D world has changed at all since I was a teenager.