We finally started having some nice weather in April and we took advantage of it when we could! Even if it was simply a walk down to the mailboxes, we found a way to get some outside time. The boys love riding in their new wagon!
But there's always time for fun indoors as well. Ethan has always loved this tunnel, but he has started pulling it out so Carter will play in it with him. Carter LOVES it! He just gets so excited whenever he sees it and they love playing together inside.
In April Carter started holding his own bottle--yay!
But sometimes he doesn't quite understand the concept!
This was just Ethan being silly one day. I was actually impressed with how close he came to fitting in that bin.
Another way we spend time outside when we have good weather is by going out and enjoying our backyard. Seriously, I don't know how I've lived without one up to this point!
Run, Ethan, run!
Carter went through a short phase where he threatened to start sucking his thumb, but he's given up on it at this point. He loves sitting on a blanket and watching Ethan play--I'm sure he's dying to get in there and play with him. They are such good buddies!
This day I had just finished pressure washing our back patio and Ethan decided to celebrate my hard work by breaking out the sidewalk chalk...awww, the joys of parenthood. As soon as you finish something it's undone again!
Carter started really experimenting with holding himself up and Ethan was always more than willing to get down on the ground with him and help him learn!
He finally started pushing himself up onto his knees! Although, this was the best picture I could get.
Dinner time antics!
This was just a funny one because Ethan looks like he's missing a leg. He keeps trying to get into Carter's toys and gets stuck. It seems like he wants to do everything that Carter does these days!
April was filled with fun with our sweet boys! I'm glad they are turning into such good friends so we can all have fun together!
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!
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!
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.
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!
An all green lunch (sour cream and onion Pringles). There were also green spinach rotini noodles, but I didn't get there in time!
Carter James--6 months old
Then we colored leprechauns (I had to teach Ethan what they were!).
And we made shamrock prints using a bell pepper!
Ethan just started taking big bites out of it in the middle of our project! He loves them and apparently thought it was rather handy to have a snack right there waiting for him!
Carter was over hanging out on that blanket that you see in the background. After a few minutes of working with Ethan I looked up and found that he had moved all the way to the kitchen floor. I'm not exactly sure how, but I'm guessing barrel rolls. He's rolling like crazy right now! Oh and I guess he lost a sock in transit, too!
PBJ for dinner (that's how we roll)! He also had green peas and a rainbow fruit salad. We were going to make key lime cupcakes, but we just ran out of time!
For dessert he got to eat a few of the Skittles and one of the Rolos that the leprechauns left for him.
We had a lot of fun celebrating St. Patrick's Day together and celebrating 6 months of Carter in our family!
