Easter Egg Hunt

A good friend of ours puts on an Easter Egg hunt every year in her back yard. Everyone brings a brunch item and her and a friend provide all the eggs. And then we visit and have a great time. 

Jack kept staring out the back window at the yard and saying "there's a hundred of them!" He had a very hard time concentrating on eating the food.

Here is the moment where they released the children. Jack was second onto the playing field. 

And then Jack surprised me. 

He only wanted yellow eggs. He would not pick up an egg unless it was yellow. He would just walk past them like they weren't even there. I have absolutely no idea why. 

He loved the egg hunt and loved sitting with his buddies to eat his findings. 

I'm 3!

Not many pictures from his birthday. It was an interesting day. Certainly, not everything went as planned. 

One thing that did go as planned however was his haircut.

Isn't he so handsome?

He requested pink cupcakes, so that is what he got. That right there is what pure joy looks like. Glad he is so easy to please. 

Jack has loved being able to tell people he is three. 

During the day, the thing under our sink that sends the water upstairs (because we are in a basement), stopped working, so the landlord sent someone to fix it. It smelled awful! 

So I decided to take Jack to McDonalds play place, which is about a twenty minute drive without traffic. We made it there just to find out the play place was closed for another 2 hours for cleaning. 

Poor little Jacko was devastated. He could see all the wonderful climbing potential, but couldn't get past the locked door. We had to turn around and come back home. 

I felt horrible and thought his birthday was ruined. But we opened presents when Tony got home and as Jack said his prayers that night, he said "thank you for my happy birthday." So I guess we did something right in the end.

I was able to take him back to Mcdonalds the next day with a good friend of his and they had a blast. Jack was sweaty by the end of the 2 1/2 hour playdate. 

Bounce House Fun

This is actually from back in February, I just kept forgetting to post it. 

While we were visiting Colette in the Baltimore area, she took us to this amazing bounce place. 

It had obstacle courses, Giant slides, bounce castles, the works!

My favorite was the Kraken eating the pirate ship. It was an insanely tall slide. Good thing Jack is brave. Colette and I took our turns on this slide as well. Pretty intense. 

And Jack loved staring up at the giant T-rex that guarded the beginning of one of the obstacle courses. 

Big News

Well, we have several big ticket, big news items to discuss today:

First of the lot: 

I got braces in January. We have an awesome orthodontist in our ward. I took this picture the same day. That's why I look sore. I was sore. But they feel great now, and I can already see my teeth straightening. 

Second item:

I am pregnant with twins! They were squirmy, so we couldn't get a good angle on both of them in the same picture. So this is what we have. I have been pretty sick growing two babies, so I have actually quit nearly everything I do. I spend a lot of time in bed or laying on the couch or the floor with my special 2 year old caretaker. 

They are due the first week of October, but expected in September.

(break for a cute story): Tony was out of town last week attending a funeral. I told Jack he had to go to bed without songs because it was past his bedtime. I told him I would go to bed without songs too. That prospect made him sad, so he tucked ME into bed, sang "I am a Child of God" and then turned off all the lights and shut all the doors and put himself to bed. He is growing up so fast. He will be a great big brother. 

Speaking of growing up so fast. Some of you know Jack has been halfway potty trained for months and months. He peed in the potty, but whenever he needed to poop he would ask for the diaper. He was too scared to poop in the potty. But this last month, he was brave and started pooping in the potty. So he is officially potty trained. He loves it so much he often poops in the potty 3 times a day. His reward of choice? A mint.

I was so sick on Monday, that I accidentally put him to bed without a diaper. In the morning, he woke me up and said he needed to go potty. I reminded him that he was in a diaper at night and he reminded me that I forgot. So he actually stayed dry the whole night and then got up to go potty in the morning. Quite the responsible kid. 

Also, my little boy turns 3 on Tuesday! I asked him what he wanted on his birthday cake, and he said "vegetables"

...not exactly sure where to go with that. 

Fortunately, with the pregnancy, my doctors have put me on a new medication that was made specifically for pregnancy nausea. On days I keep it down, I do pretty well.