Ty's New Trick!

He can wear pants!!

Ever since we started church at 9 for the new year Ty hated getting dressed for church. For about a month or 2 we fought and put church pants and a button up shirt on him. Then we decided to let him wear tan shorts- with no buttons of course- and this polo shirt. This week he started to wear shorts with buttons on his own. On Friday he had Father's and Sons and had to wear pants. This was the first time he wore pants on his own since 2011! So for church this morning Nathan asked if he wanted to wear pants to. Look- he even has a smile doing it! Now we just have to see if we can convince him to wear a new shirt. He is getting too big for the one he wears to church EVERY week. Baby steps.

Pictures of our Family

Here are a few pictures of our family from the last couple months.

Here is from Jen's birthday.

Kate's class has a ready bear called Huggie Bear that each student is signed to take home on the weekend and document their adventures together. Kate was able to take him home on the weekend that was Spring Break so she had him for over a week. She took a bunch of pictures with him to put in the Huggie Bear book.

Kate giving Nathan sass for taking her picture.

Huggie Bear likes cookies as much as we do. Who knew?

Graham likes his toes. If fact, he learned to roll from his back to his stomach by getting his toes and he gets so excited he just slides into it. Problem is he hasn't yet mastered rolling the other way yet, but he can stay on his tummy for a while.

Yes, those are toes in his mouth.

He has also seemed to gained a taste for these fingers. Same fingers, opposite hand as Kate.

Easter 2012

Easter was fun this year. Our kids our old enough to make it exciting. They had a blast coloring eggs. I think they put each egg in each color several times.

We did Easter at the Wilbur's on Saturday. Everyone was there, except for Jarrod. Sue had crafts set up for the kids to make Easter things.

We hid eggs for the kids. They had so much fun finding them all.

The kids were excited to find the eggs on Easter morning that the Easter bunny hid.

Kate gave us a little sass during the day for pictures.

After church, the Williams and the Goldthorpes came and we hid eggs for the kids. There were so many eggs that yes, Ethan had a trash sack to hold them all.

There was an egg in this bush that the girls could not find.

The kids had fun I think.

The hard part of Easter compared with Christmas is that kids understand being born but death is a little harder for them. We ask what Easter is for and Ty says for the bunny and candy. We ask what did Jesus do, and he says he died. We ask what happened then, and he says he cam alive again. Again, not sure he understands what death is so this is very abstract to him, but we read the scriptures the whole week before. Hopefully they really caught the true meaning of the holiday, although candy can be a big distraction, especially for Ty.

Funny story on candy, we told Ty that he can't eat so much candy. He was wanting it the moment he woke in the morning and about every minute until he went to bed. The other day we went to their great grandparents who offered candy to the kids. It was late morning, just before lunch, but allowed him to have some. He was shocked that he was allow to have it.