Easter Sunday

It was so nice to have Tristan here to celebrate Easter with us this year! Since church doesn't start until 1:00 for us we had the whole morning to relax and enjoy each other. Tristan set up another egg hunt with empty eggs to pass some of the time.

Ethan checking out Carter's basket

Finally digging into his own basket. He wanted those donuts right away!
What's inside?
Carter checking out his toys
Happy baby!
After church we headed over to my parents' house for dinner with my mom and dad, brother, aunt and cousin. My dad had another egg hunt for Ethan, but we didn't get any pictures of it. Needless to say, his piggy bank is now full of pennies (and nickles and dimes and quarters) and we had enough candy after 4 egg hunts to last us until next Easter!

We tried to get a good picture but it just wasn't in the cards. I also wanted to get a picture of the boys in their matching suits, but that didn't happen either...oh well!
The best part of the day was spent at church remembering the good new of our Savior's resurrection. What joy it brings to our hearts to know He lives!

Getting Ready for Easter

Well, let's start this post with a picture of this little guy! I feel bad because we haven't taken nearly as many pics of him as we did of Ethan, but I heard that was the way it would be! As you can see, he desparately needs a haircut, which will happen the next time Tristan is home.

We didn't get around to dying our Easter eggs until the day before Easter this year...I still feel like we aren't unpacked and settled so we got busy with a lot of other projects and it kept getting put off. But the important thing is that we did it! Here they are all ready to dye eggs (don't they look thrilled?).
Carter's all ready to pitch in and help!
Doing an egg dying tutorial
Ethan trying it out
Then we headed over to Grandma Bernard's to have an early Easter dinner with her, Aunt Tennille and Aunt Desiree. Grandma even had an egg hunt ready for Ethan. He really got into egg hunts this year so it was fun to watch.
That was a tricky one!
Running to get one
Ethan's stash!
After that we headed over to LBA park for our ward Easter egg hunt that evening. We had a great time and it was fun to get to know some people in our new ward.
He found two at once!
And, of course, you can't go to LBA for an egg hunt and not go on the toys! Even at night!
It was fun to watch Ethan enjoy some of the activities that we do to celebrate Easter. It's fun now that he's getting older and actually gets excited about them.

Potty Training

The week before Easter we decided to take the plunge into potty training Ethan. We got him a potty when we moved here in June and were very casual about it. We basically just encouraged him to sit on it, and most of the time he only used it right before getting into the bath. Tristan had been wanting to do it for a while and I was dragging my feet because I was dreading it. Our friend, Jill, sent us the 3-Day method after using it with her son who is about Ethan's age and we decided to try it. We figured the worst that could happen is that we spent 3 days on it and still had to keep working on it.

The first day we started out with a "ceremony" where he received his undies that he helped pick out. He was excited about finding some Thomas undies.

Look at that cute little bum!
The 3 boys, ready to hunker down for 3 days of potty training.
The next part of the ceremony was to "throw away" all the diapers in the house. We didn't really throw them out. We just packed them up later!

Since you have to devote 100% to potty training, you can't really go anywhere for the 3 days. Tristan really took over, spending a lot of time coming up with things to keep us busy. One day I had to run out and grocery shop, so Tristan and Ethan planted our broccoli and cauliflower starters.
Ethan did a great job. We did have some accidents, but never at night and never at nap time! By the end of the 3 days, he was pretty much trained--even going #2 on the potty! We still constantly remind him, but he usually does great! I can't believe he's such a big boy already!