Easter 2011

 Easter 2011 brought rain to our dry land!  We had a wonderful day at Trace's parents. 

Hunting eggs with no pants is always more fun!

He would find one egg, open it, eat a piece of candy, then look for another one.

His first egg find.



Grandparents and most of the grandchildren.

 

Baby's first Easter.

Our first Easter as a family of four.  The boys' faces crack me up here.



Hot Tubbin'

We do a nightly bath with Nathan, but Wade only every other night, so Nathan gets pretty excited when it is "bathe with brother" night.  Wade uses his little tub in the big tub and lately Nathan has decided the more the merrier in that tub.  It is a pretty tight fit, but he squeezes himself in there with Wade, it is so cute!



Cheap Entertainment

Happy April!! 

While temperatures have been steadily warming up around here, the wind has been killer. Our household is all suffering from allergies, so despite my strong desire to get outside, we still need to have some indoor activites to provide relief from the wind and the sneezing, itchy, watery eyes. We installed some new equipment at the clinic and the boys were on the receiving end of a new (cheap) toy. 

In he goes...

Out he comes...

The best part is that it folds flat when they are tired of it and has no top! 



I think Nathan was trying to pull him inside. 

Yeah for boxes!

Food, Glorious Food

Wow, I haven't posted in a month...

Wade is Mr. Foodie now, he loves almost everything he has tried, thankfully.  We did start with cereals - brown rice and oatmeal at 4 months and he took to those just great. 

As far as "real food" goes, he has tried:  apples, bananas, apricots, mango, kiwi, cantaloupe, butternut and acorn squashes, peas, green beans, sweet potatoes, avocado, and, of course, the infamous puffs (which Nathan calls "huffs").  The only thing he has not been a fan of is the avocado, which totally surprised me.  I have been making most of the food and have become a HUGE fan of the Magic Bullet - makes whipping up some food a breeze.

Cleaning Schedule

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With two young ones and working part-time, I feel as though I am always one to many steps behind on the home front.  Often times I feel like my house looks like similar to an episode of Hoarders.  Before Wade arrived, I set in motion a "schedule" to follow on certain days to really clean certain areas.  That schedule fell by the wayside quickly after he arrived, I would try but many times the room of the day did not get touched.

The last two weeks the kids have been sick, causing me to be majorly sleep deprived, so the house most definitely suffered.  Something had to be done...I revised my schedule to include daily room tending to the kitchen and daily laundry.  Friday and Saturday became catch-up days, and I shuffled some of the other days around to what I will hopefully stick to.

Today, I found a Real Simple article on addressing the kitchen I found to be really good info and wanted to share. 

Enjoy!

Brotherly Love

Snow, snow, snow