Easter Fun

Well, our Easter weekend wasn't exactly what we pictured. We started the Easter festivities on Saturday by going to an Easter egg hunt put on by a local church. It was sort of random that we decided to go since we were planning to go to an Easter egg hunt at the golf club on Sunday, but we were glad we went. Kaitlin came into our room around 3am Sunday morning and started throwing up so all of our plans were thwarted! Kaitlin wasn't even very excited about her Easter basket. The Easter Bunny didn't hide any eggs, but he did leave a bag full of eggs for us to hide when Kaitlin was feeling better. Monday night, when it was clear that Kaitlin was over the stomach bug, we hid the eggs in the backyard. We were really surprised at how much Kaitlin got into it. She would spot an egg and run right to it. We just had a ball watching her. It was definitely more fun than the egg hunt on Saturday when they just threw the eggs on the ground. I was able to get a picture of Ethan in his Easter outfit with his basket. I could barely snap his little onesie! Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Easter Fun

We also saw the Easter Bunny at Walgreens on Saturday, but we haven't picked up those pictures yet (also not something we planned on doing since the Easter Bunny was supposed to be at the golf club on Sunday).

Sweet

Kaitlin is a sweet big sister...

Spring Break Fun

We thought about taking a short trip somewhere over Keven's spring break, but we never pulled anything together. Since we didn't pull together a trip, we were planning to picnic and play at various parks each day and go to the Montgomery Zoo one day. Kaitlin and Keven both ended up getting sick at the beginning of the week and by the middle of the week, we were having crappy weather. So, we finally had OK picnic weather on Thursday and went to the zoo on Friday. Saturday, we went for another picnic and took Harley with us. He has really been neglected since Ethan was born and appreciated the trip. Here are some pictures from Friday and Saturday. We forgot to take the camera with us to the zoo, but we got a few pictures with Keven's phone. Kaitlin was really excited about the train ride and we thought it would be fun to sit up front, but the train whistle was really loud and scared both Kaitlin and Ethan. I ended up watching the conductor the whole time so that I could cover Kaitlin's ears and warn her before the whistle blew.




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Holy Cow!

I took Ethan for his 2-month checkup this morning and he is doing great! He weighed 11 lbs. 3 oz. which is just crazy since he was only 10 lbs. last Thursday! He is now 22 inches long and is in the 50th percentile for both weight and height. I don't think we're going to have the weight issues we had with Kaitlin! Poor little man had to have four shots and an oral vaccine today, but he took it like a champ (and so did Mommy)!

Stuffed Animals

After we finally got Ethan's room painted and the crib made up, I decided that it was pretty boring and we really needed some more animal stuff to jazz the place up a bit. When I saw these stuffed animals at Target, I knew they were perfect for Ethan's room! I couldn't resist taking his picture with them and posting them for comparison.






















































I forgot to mention that I've actually seen these stuffed animals in two different TV shows since I bought them. We're clearly trendsetters ;)

Ethan's Room

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures of Ethan's room. Actually, that's because it just got finished recently - a result of what we call the "Second Child Syndrome." I have to thank my friends Courtney and Nicole for introducing me to vinyl lettering from Etsy. Ethan's name turned out great and was much easier to put on the wall than the wood letters that we had in Kaitlin's nursery. And due to a shipping mishap, the lady I ordered it from sent us the monkey over the changing table for free! It looks really cute; I just wish I had told her to make it in brown (she automatically makes everything from black if you don't specify a color).

See Ethan Grow

Ethan is two months old today! We decided to continue the tradition of taking pictures with Harley, so this is the first of the series of Ethan and Harley. In the first picture, he is 2 weeks old and in the second, he is 2 months old. We think that he is growing so much faster than Kaitlin did, but I compared their weights at this age the other day and Ethan actually weighs several ounces less than Kaitlin did at 2 months. There was a macro enabled on the camera today when we took pictures, so they are a little blurry, especially the one with Kaitlin :(

Poor Harley

Kaitlin's new favorite activities include tormenting Harley and Simba. She loves to wake Simba up from his naps, chase him around the house, make him sit, and has picked him up a few times. Simba is NOT a fan. She also enjoys dragging Harley around by his collar. Harley is a good sport and is desparate for attention, so he often complies. I was able to catch a few pictures. This particular day, he was protesting pretty strongly.









































Success!

Big Sister

Kaitlin is a great big sister! She likes to talk to Ethan, shake toys for him, and cover him up with his blanket. She even got to help give Ethan a bottle one night (he rarely gets one)! Kaitlin doesn't seem real interested in holding Ethan lately, probably because he usually cries when she holds him. Not because he doesn't like her, she just usually wants to hold him when he's already grumpy. It's been really fun to watch Kaitlin with her dolls since Ethan was born. The other day, we went to the grocery store and I had the baby in a carrier. Kaitlin wanted to put her baby in a carrier too. So off we went "wearing" our babies! She talks to her babies just like we talk to Ethan. She'll stand her baby up and say "Look at you standing up" or "You're getting so big." It's very cute!

Caught Smiling!

Our "little man" Ethan is becoming less grumpy everyday (thank goodness) and if you're lucky you might even catch him smiling.


















Things are so much different with this second child. Someone asked me when Ethan was five weeks old if he had started smiling yet and my honest answer was "I don't know." It really made me realize that I had been so busy with Kaitlin and trying to get a little something done that I forgot to look at Ethan and talk to him. So now, when a rare moment comes along that he is awake and not grumpy, I talk to him and play with him. He seems to be less grumpy now that he's getting some more positive attention :)