Easter Festivities

We had a lot of fun with Easter this year.  Mainly because Auntie Sarah was visiting.  On Saturday night we were all super tired from the beach, so we mainly just cleaned up a little bit and then dyed eggs.  Which Evan loved doing with Daddy.  Logan was asleep already at that time, so he missed out.  Oh well.  Maybe next year he'll be more aware of what's going on. 

Rick figuring out the colors

Evan was hanging around, knowing something was about to go down.

Rick showing Evan what he was doing. 

Evan is really good at supervising.

He picked out the colors and tried taking them out sooner than Daddy wanted...

Playing with the Cars stickers

Daddy finishing off the eggs.

Evan proud of his accomplishment.  (He's good at taking credit for things he didn't do!)

The boys waking up Auntie Sarah

Logan not really sure what was going on.

Evan checking out his basket

Logan trying to push around the Mater candy container.

He wanted Evan's instead.

Logan walking along the couch.

Bubbles

Logan was so happy.

Heading downstairs after church.

Finding Easter eggs

Evan had to stop and check to make sure there was stuff in them (he learned his lesson from last year at Fort Meade during the Housing Easter Egg hunt)

Logan liked the grass in his basket

Logan opening up the egg.

Evan starting to enjoy some candy.

Both boys looking at their spoils.

Logan enjoying some chocolate.

Evan decorating sugar cookies. 

Sarah and Logan watching brother.

On Easter morning the boys got their baskets before church and I let them have one piece of candy.  Then we went to church, and then came home.  We all changed out of our church clothes and the boys did their Easter Egg hunt inside. 

We had a yummy Easter dinner with roast chicken and some veggies.  And, let me say, it was a GOOD roast chicken.  First time I've had the chicken come out that moist.  

At the Beach

We went to Gulf Shores, Alabama for the beaches on the Saturday before Easter when my sister Sarah was visiting.  We had a wonderful time.  The boys LOVED the water and sand.  It was Logan's first time going to a beach, so he really had a blast.  The water wasn't too cold either, so it was a pretty nice day.  (And when I say too cold, it wasn't any colder than the Pacific is! Ha Ha!)

My boys love this wagon of theirs. 

Evan looking all innocent.  Yeah right.

Auntie Sarah and Logan. 

Logan is so fair.  Both of these boys already had pink cheeks even when we put sunblock on them.

Trying to put sunblock on Evan.

He just wanted to play in the sand.

Logan and I.

Love how big his hat is.

They had a little moat that was for the kids in between the sand and the actual ocean.  It was really nice.

Daddy taking Evan to the real ocean.

Logan loved shoveling.

Evan face planted in the moat.

"What's up?"

This kid is so photogenic.

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Trying to get Logan to walk.

New family picture?  Yeah right...

Logan LOVED the waves in the ocean.  I would say, "1,2,3" and then on three fling him in the air.  He loved it.

Taking a rest to snack on some yummy food.

Evan wanted to go back to the water.

Trying to dry off before leaving!  Such a sweet little guy. 

We stopped at Sonic on the way home, because we all love Sonic.  The boys slept super well that night.  We had a lot of fun and now I just have to convince Rick to let us go back again or maybe try a different beach.  Maybe Dauphin Island or Pensacola next time.  We'll have to see. 

A few things...

I need to update this, but I really just don't seem to be finding the time right now.  There has been a lot going on around here.  Including all of us (except Rick) getting sick during the month of March.  It hasn't been a great month...

1)  Logan's 1 year Dr. Appointment--Apparently Logan isn't even on the growth chart for weight because he's so tiny.  And he's in the 3% for height.  HA HA!  Shorty.  Still no walking for him yet, even though he is getting braver about taking a few steps at a time.  He's not as fearless as Evan, so he's like a little kid is usually.  And the poor little guy had to get antibiotics for an ear infection during that same appointment.  Thankfully he was feeling a lot better after that. 

2) Speaking of Evan, we have had several doctor's appointments for him.  The first was a psychiatric evaluation testing for Autism Spectrum Disorder.  Although Evan is speaking and communicating a lot more, he is still very behind his peers in terms of language development.  The psychiatrist was reluctant to diagnose him with Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He qualifies because of his speech delay and he is "aloof" toward a lot of people, including the doctor we saw.  BUT, both Rick and I feel like this doctor did an excellent evaluation, and at the moment, we agree with his assessment.  As soon as Evan takes off with talking though, we'll probably get him reevaluated (another thing that the doctor told us to do).

The second doctor appointment was going to see an optometrist.  The psychiatrist we saw mentioned that Evan seemed to have a lazy eye.  Whoops.  We don't know how we missed it, but we made an appointment as soon as we could.  We found out that the cute little guy needed some glasses to correct his lazy eye.  We should be getting those soon.  The last appointment is an evaluation done by the Biloxi Public School District to see if he qualifies for Early Childhood Preschool through the district.  We'll be doing that on Friday. 

3)  I had an appointment earlier in March to get a referral to get my IUD taken out.  After I weaned Logan, I noticed that I was crankier than usual, retaining water like crazy, having a bit of pain, and my hair was falling out like crazy (thankfully I have A LOT of hair).  The doctor agreed with me when she said that I was still in that small percentage of women who have the sensitivity to as low of hormone dosage that's found in the Mirena. 

The second appointment happened when I was eating pudding and then I felt a tooth pop out.  Now, it wasn't painful, so I knew that it was my crown from my root canal a few years ago.  I was so mad.  I only had that sucker for 3 years!  And the crown took part of my tooth with it, so I had to get a brand new crown made.  The dentist did the temporary crown for me, and now I am just waiting to go back for my permanent crown in a couple of weeks.

4)  Auntie Sarah came to visit us (finally, happy news!)  She spent Easter weekend with us and the boys were completely smitten with her, like usual.  We had a lot of fun.  (I'll have separate posts for her visit). 

5)  Church--Because we were going on and off to church during the month of March due to illness, Evan has been having a rougher time in Sunbeams (meaning there were a couple of Sundays that he just took off out of the primary room).  We have to get him used to going again, so we're trying a couple of things out.

6)  Working out, studying, trying to save money--I'm in a bind right now in how I am supposed to save money, while feeding my family good, healthy food and losing weight.  Now, I just don't have 10 lbs to lose still.  I have more like 40.  Of course, I'm not going to die if I don't lose them all in the next year.  I figure as long as I am changing my eating and exercise habits around, it will stick better than any crash dieting I may be tempted to participate in.  There's a fine line between eating well and frugally, and we're still working on trying to figure that one out, especially since I have two little boys who love eating and a husband who loves meat.

And that's about it.  It's been a while, but hopefully I can get back to updating this blog a little bit more often, but I really can't make any guarantees. 

Logan's 1st Birthday Post #3--Logan's Real Birthday

Logan's 1st birthday was today and we had so much fun.  It was a really low key day.  We went to church, came home, ate a little bit of food, went to Break the Fast, came home, got the presents out and skyped with my parents.  We skyped while Logan opened up gifts and then sang and gave him cake.
We bought a ball pit for Logan.  And we thought that 20 balls would be plenty (because on the box the kids look like they're having fun with a large amount of balls!)  Well, it turns out that 20 was definitely not enough.  Logan and Evan both enjoyed playing in it still.  We set up Saturday night and he saw it Sunday morning first thing when he woke up and was really excited.

He also got a little talking puppy and a Mickey Mouse wagon.  He got his first Little People toy from Nana and Poppa (a cute tractor).  He got a couple of books from Auntie Sarah and a ton of Circus Animal cookies to eat. 

Crawling to the ball pit.

He was so curious to see what was inside.

Playing with the balls.

Happy little guy. 

Evan in the pit with Logan.

Trying to get a picture of Logan with the hat on. 

A picture of the onesie that I made for Logan.

The hat and onesie. 

Rick playing with a blowout.

Evan and Rick playing together.

Logan and I together. 

Smash cake.

I took away half of it because he was eating EVERYTHING!

Evan took Logan's tractor...

Taking off his hat.

Another pic of Logan and I. 

We are so thankful for Logan.  Our family feels way more complete now than it did when we just had Evan.  I love this kid so much.  He and his big brother have so much sibling rivalry going on it is insane.  But, I am really looking forward to watching them grow up together and get bigger.  He doesn't walk yet... He's way more into crawling and standing at the moment, but I have a feeling that he'll take off in the next month or so.  What a wonderful family we have.