Easter

Last week Isabella and I colored Easter eggs, and baked and frosted a huge batch of Easter cut out cookies.

The "Easter Bunny" brought the movie, Tangled and a Tangled book. Plus Jelly Belly scented and colored bubbles with a neat whistle bubble blower
(don't know why I didn't have her put those in the picture). She loves to smell everything, so that should be right up her alley!

Dressed up in their Easter attire before church.


My little love bug.




We met my whole family at my sister's for Easter, we also stayed overnight. Isabella was disappointed that we only stayed one night!

The outdoor egg hunt.

The three four year old cousins, they have an absolute blast together!

All 8 cousins. Soon to be 9 in August, when my sister's next one joins the crowd.

Best buds.

Alleluia

A couple weeks ago Isabella came to me one day and said,


"Mommy, I've noticed we don't sing 'Alleluia' anymore in church, how come?"


I explained once Easter comes, we will start again. Just goes to show kids pick up on way more than we think!

Got it . . . Love it!

I ended up finding a really good deal on a new one on ebay. It came today, and I spent the whole afternoon outside with him in it. It's great, although I think I'll be watching the instructional DVD a few more times before I attempt to try him on my back!

Ergo Question

I have taken the advice that many of you have given me, and am pretty sure that I'm going to get an Ergo. I convinced Monte to get me one for my birthday, which is coming up. But I'm still being a bit hesitant, which is why I haven't ordered it yet. Just when I think I'm ready to order it, I think I can get by with the Baby Bjorn. I used the Bjorn almost constantly for the first three months, but haven't really used it since then until last week. We had a very short lived wave of nice weather (now it's back to cold and snow) and I decided to put Jaymes in the Bjorn (his first time outside EVER without being covered up with a blanket, can you believe it?!) so I would be free to hang out with Isabella, push her on the swingset, etc. And now I'm thinking if we had an Ergo it would get used a lot with summer coming up, and would make things so easy when we're out and about! So my question is, for those of you that have an Ergo, I'm trying to decide between the Ergo and the Ergo Sport. They are the same price, but the sport version is made of a lighter weight fabric, has vents for keeping parent and baby cool, but doesn't have as big of zippered pocket. So, do you or your kids get really hot in the regular Ergo? And how big is the zippered pocket in the regular Ergo, I would think that would be really handy to have. Also, is it hard to get your child in and out of it by yourself? I've read some reviews that said it is. That's one thing I like about the Bjorn, it's very easy to get him in and out (not so easy on the shoulders, though!).

Ready to go outside, he loved it!

Curls

It's a little hard to see in pictures, but Jaymes is getting really curly hair. Monte and I both have naturally curly hair (I usually straighten mine) so it's not a huge surprise that Jaymes is getting curls. It's more of a surprise that Isabella doesn't even have a single wave in her hair! Of course my boy would be the one to get the curls! :)

Glad to be home

We just got back a couple of days ago from a little vacation. Well, vacation for the kids and I, but the reason we went was because Monte had four days of meetings/classes to attend. So the kids and I decided to tag along. We hardly saw Monte at all, maybe an hour a day. By the end of our stay Isabella was crying because she missed Daddy so much. Luckily, Monte's dad works for the same company, so I had my mother-in-law there to help out most of the time. Isabella had a blast with Grandma, they spent a lot of time in the pool, and I went swimming with her on the last day. We had a suite overlooking the pool, which Isabella was THRILLED about! We also spent one day shopping, which was exhausting. Jaymes really doesn't sleep unless he's in his crib, then he sleeps great, but you can pretty much forget about him sleeping anywhere else. So the day of shopping about did him in! I finally took him in the mother's lounge at the mall, where it was quiet and free of distractions for him, and he finally went to sleep, then slept in his carseat in the stroller for a while (I'm thinking I would love an Ergo, just seems like a lot of money, though). He also got his first tooth while we were gone! That made for an off and on fussy baby! So we didn't really see Daddy, had an over tired, off schedule, teething baby, but . . . Isabella had a blast, and I admit, it was fun to get away, plus spend time with my mother-in-law. I will also add, though, if we go on vacation this summer, we are considering leaving Jaymes with Grandma and Grandpa, then he can feel free to sleep in his bed until his little heart is content.

Jaymes even got his feet wet, and loved it! Hanging out with Grandma.

Jaymes is very happy to be home.

A new shirt, her and Daddy's favorite! The kids needed spring/summer clothes. It's crazy, I don't even hardly look at clothes for myself anymore, just head straight to the kids stores/departments. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only mom that does this!