Thursday, April 1, 2010

Easter Egg Hunt

We had an Easter Egg Hunt last night at church for all the children, and we had such a great time! Here are some pictures of all the excitement!

Daddy and James were listening to the instructions and waiting to get some eggs!



We walked outside and James just took in all the other children until....

He spotted his first egg! After that he had no trouble running around picking up eggs.


Sometimes James would run away from all the eggs on accident, but Daddy would point out some eggs and James would boogey over there! It was too cute to watch them find eggs!


He is delicately placing his eggs in his little basket.


Here James and his little friend, Judd are picking up eggs together and trying to give each other their eggs! It was really cute to see them sharing. The older kids at church walked around and strategically placed eggs for the little ones and this was one spot where they left about ten eggs!


I love how he is excited and running back to his basket here!


Mommy is trying to keep James away from some one's forgotten eggs. James saw this as the perfect opportunity to pick up some more eggs!


Mommy was telling James to look at the camera, but little did she know he was and she wasn't! Silly Mama!


Here James is telling the older boy who just gave him an egg "Thank you" in sign language. How sweet!

Look at that throw!


We sat down to admire our eggs and every time he would smile at his eggs they would be over his face! So, he had a great time we just couldn't capture the smile!

His favorite egg is a yellow egg with blue butterflies. He found this egg without any candy in it, and he loved to try to open and close it all night!


My sweet boys ready to go back inside!


We decided to walk back over to see what Judd was doing.


The two boys carrying their own Easter baskets. They did NOT want anyone else carrying them. I think they were really proud of all their hard work.


Daddy put James in the bounce around thing, and I think he would have enjoyed it, but there were too many big kids. He kept getting smooshed.


Here he is trying to get up, but it failed!

Just standing around holding his Easter eggs.


Oh! The cookie after dinner...he was chewing it like a fish and I thought this picture captured that! He ate about 1/4 of the cookie and decided he didn't want that anymore. I think it was too sweet!


Then he wanted to look at his eggs...and try to eat those too!


Daddy held James on a big inflatable thing and bounced him around - James had a blast!
Well, that was our fun-filled evening last night. I think we are going to hide some Easter eggs outside Sunday just to see him do it again! It was too cute, and I know he really enjoyed it. Hopefully we will get a family picture on Easter and we can post then. Enjoy your weekend!

Baby Update

I am feeling, overall, very well. I have decided I think I am ready for Baby Brother to be here...TODAY (or asap). I love being pregnant, but there is just something so much more special about having your baby here. I went to the doctor yesterday and found out I am 3 cm dilated and 60% effaced! :) I will not disclose how much weight I have gained, but I will say it is less than what I gained with James....so far. My blood pressure was great at 120/60, and the baby's heartrate was 137 bpm. My uterus is still measuring big by two weeks, so it looks like a 39 week belly as you can see below! YIKES!!! Since we have such a long drive to make it to the hospital, and we think I won't make it much longer, we decided to set a day to be induced. We should definitely have Baby Brother here on OR before April 14, 2010! We are still struggling with this choice of breaking my water because we want to let nature take its course unless there is a medical reason to induce. However, having to drive an hour and a half just to get to the hospital makes us think this is the wise decision and everything will be okay. I guess we can still decide later, but for now that is where we stand. We will keep you posted as best as we can!

39 Weeks!