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Easter 2012

EASTER· PERSONAL

Dear Mothers of Mine, I’ve been meaning to post these photos of Will’s second Easter…sorry they’re late.  Sincerely, The Baby-Incubator

Celebrating Easter was tricky this year.  The fact that Will’s birthday ended up directly on Easter Sunday didn’t help.  Basically I planned Easter with Jer’s mom, a birthday party with my fam and Jer’s dad & stepmom, Easter with my family and cram in a barbeque into the mix.  Why yes, I do love a heaping helping of crazy on my plate, thankyou.

We hosted Jer’s mom and grandma over the weekend before the holiday weekend just to spread things out.  Breathing room is always good.  Especially with the aroma of boiled eggs and vinegar in the air 🙂

Oh yeah…dying the eggs this year was WAY more involved than last year.  Will immediately got the hang of it…and wanted to ‘check’ the color constantly.  Note to self – next year use a whisk instead of spoons for the little guy.

We all ohhhed and awwed over his colors.  With the look of excitement on his face, you would have thought he had laid the eggs.

Jer’s grandma (who we call GG) really got into it too.  No spoon needed with this hot mama!

Something about the subject contrast here is moving to me.  Such a youthful activity…such a well-worn hand…I hope I’m still dying eggs when I’m her age.  Simple joys people…that’s what it’s about for me…simple joys.

Next year, I’ll have to remember to put a towel down under all the cups too.  It must be my OCD or something but literally I was frantic with the paper towels because I didn’t want Will to spill everything everywhere.  I had visions.  They weren’t pretty.

Our beautiful creations…that we are still eating…two weeks later.  Time to chunk em.

The following weekend we had the barbeque on Friday night, the birthday party on Saturday and on Sunday, I made sure the boys walked downstairs to find what the Easter bunny had brought them.

Then it was off to church, squeezed in a little after-church activity with our friends there, and then off to my parents house for another egg hunt.  I mean really….can you have too many egg hunts?  The correct answer is no.  I would still do one if someone arranged it.  Just putting it out there.

Cole loved it too.  Let’s be honest – the eggs were empty – so it really was all about the hunt.  I think I might plan one of these this summer…because both boys enjoyed the heck outta the game.

Will has started giving hugs….he calls them squeezes…which comes out sheezzies…followed by some gutteral noises.  He always gave kisses…but the hugs thing is newer.  I am totally a fan of the sheezzies.

His hair still has a touch of red to it.  That makes me laugh.  I have no idea why…maybe it has something to do with redhead jokes…but it’s not important…what’s important is that it’s funny.  trust me.  it is.

The boys posing manly-like.  Tim is often so quiet and serious…so to see him like this is so fun to me.  I can’t help but laugh when he laughs.

This is his newest toy.  I call it the Bat Mobike.  If I am perfectly honest – it sortof makes me want to have a surgically altered body so that I could take photos on this bad boy.  THE BIKE.  not my brother…GROSS.  YUCKY yucky gross gross.

Here’s something pretty for you to look at if you aren’t single.  See how thoughtful I am?

Later that evening, Will broke out his basket treats and discovered that sometimes eggs have candy in them.  During his birthday party, they only had slips of paper, and my mom’s were empty (it was just for a fun activity since the entire house was heavy laden with sweets).  You can imagine Will’s reaction.

It went something like this….WHOA!  MOMMY!!! CANDY!!!

Most of it was wrapped so it went into Mommy’s stash 🙂

But there were some with jellybeans…which he shared with us.  Little did he know that we were planning on taking most of it away anyway.

The best thing in the basket was this package of rocket balloons.  Basically you pump em up and let em fly.  Since the living room is two stories, it was really fun to see them swirl all over the top of the ceiling.

This is Will’s version of putting on bunny ears.  and then thrashing them off.  It was like throwing except without hands.

 

His basket was really easy – a coloring book, a new dr. seuess book, forks (??), some snack cups, flipflops, some chalk, bubbles, a new Veggie Tales video, candy and a couple bathing suits.  I figure the kid needed some shorts and bathing suits work amazingly well for us because they dry faster, are light for the Georgia heat, and are appropriate enough to wear to the playground or the creek (Walmart had these cute ones and let me tell ya, Walmart rarely gets it right…but they did this year!).

Jeremy’s Man-ster basket was really fun to create too.  I figured he could use a little pick-me-up and who doesn’t love baskets full of goodies?!

So that’s it – our Easter in a nutshell – or an eggshell 🙂

How was yours?

p.s.  I had my first neo-natal appointment today…turns out that the Little Baby is measuring a little big…so even though I am 12 weeks 1 day – the baby was on average 13 weeks 1 day (some measurements even put me at 13w6d!)…so that’s pretty big.  Of course, nothing is set in stone because it’s hard to predict accurately at 12 weeks…but it’s nice to know that the kid is growing!

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  1. These pictures are awesome! I am confused…one second Will looks just like you…then Will looks just like Jeremy in the picture after the one when he is sitting on the toy truck! I always thought he was a clone of you! That is one cute toddler you have 🙂

  4. Awww….sheezzies. Will is cute anyway, but he’s a handsome lil guy with a tie on.

    Glad to hear that you’re first appointment went well.

  5. Looks like a wonderful whirlwind weekend 🙂 beautiful pictures – I love the one of Jeremy’s grandmother. Just Beautiful

  6. Looks like a great Easter! Looks like both the kids and the grown-ups had lots of fun. As we got older, my Mom switched from Easter egg hunts to treasure hunts (always inside – April in Chicago usually means cold rain or possibly snow…). She used Bible verses as clues, and planted them around the house – e.g., a clue about the sick might lead to the medicine cabinet, “clothing her family” to the sewing machine, etc. The clues became diabolically difficult as we got older. Though we wouldn’t have admitted it openly, it was still ridiculously fun as teenagers.

  10. Adorable pictures!
    Also I have an egg hunt idea: my friends put on an egg hunt with eggs filled with confetti…it was great fun! This way when the eggs are opened they explode with little pieces of fun AND the older kids had fun “getting” each other (and adults) by running up to them and opening the eggs over them!

  11. I have to agree with Jessica. Your mom is GORGEOUS Katie B! You can just SEE how much she loves your whole family. It makes me thankful that I have a mom like that too 🙂

  12. instead of paper towels while coloring eggs, I put a canvas painters drop cloth over the table. It worked really great. of course I haven’t washed the thing yet (b/c I need to go to the coin-op) so I am not sure if food coloring comes out of fabric when i sits for so long. But I kind of like th tye-dye look for the next time I need I need it for a painting project.

  13. I don’t know why I never thought to make an Easter basket for my “boyfriend.” Thanks for the idea! 🙂

    As usual, super cute pictures!

  16. “You’d of thought he laid them himself” = coffee all over my keyboard but totally worth it.

    Great post Katie! Love the “easter man” basket!

  17. Will is looking like such a big boy these days! We used to call my grandma GG. She just passed this year so it’s nice to see you enjoying easter with your GG – soak it up! xo

  18. I thought the same thing on the same picture. Thougt to myself wow, he isnt looking competely like katie anymore. He looks like a little Jeremy. Love the baskets! Crazy-family-crammed easter weekends are tiring but so fun, right!

  19. I’m 25 and I still dyed Easter eggs at my mom’s house with my husband this year! It’s one of my favorite holiday traditions and I hope I do it foreverrr.

    My mom puts down a plastic tablecloth so she doesn’t worry about spills. It works better than towels under the cups.

  20. Easter looked like a lot of fun! That is so sweet you do a basket for your hubby. That must have been exciting for you to see your little one! Measuring big or do they have you further along than you thought? Would that put your due date a week early?

  22. can’t go wrong with a post about coloring eggs the old fashioned way and a little snippet of your bro! 🙂 and if I was closer I would die for some sheezies too!

  24. Being busy keeps me sane! Haha! Really though, when I have something to do or to get done, I feel like I function better as a human. I have 3 kids (13 yo girl, 11 yo boy and 2 yo boy) and this year my oldest boy took off from playing baseball and I always feel like we are forgetting to do something…make sense? Anyways, Will is so super cute! He looks ornery like my 2 year old. They are just a couple months apart. And I am SO happy to see that your brother is wearing a helmet!!! That is one sweet ride!

  25. I like-y your brother’s bike-y! I married one of those motorcycle hotties. And the minute he straps on his helmet and hops on his bike, my heart goes pitter-patter like it did the first time I met him. Sidenote – I rode one too. So all these girls would oogle my man as he pulled up to a restaurant/bar/place of fun and then I would hop off my bike, take my helmet off, give my hair a shake like a Pantene Pro-V commercial, and then grab my man’s arm and walk in. The look on their faces? Priceless 🙂

  26. Such great pics! And Jeremy’s Easter basket looks identical to what my hubs would be – shaker bottles, jerky and muscle milk… YUM. Ha!

  30. So fun! Question: where did you get Jer’s shaker cup? I am looking for a good one at the cheapest price and I know you are thrifty like me!

    And congrats to a healthy growing gummy bear! You should post u/s photos 🙂

  31. If you want an adult easter egg hunt fill the eggs with money! My husbands family does this every year. The little kids look for their candy eggs in one area of the yard and then the adults take their turn in another area of the yard while the kids enjoy the eggs they just found. It’s fun because the eggs have anything from a quarter up to the coveted $20 bill that is out there in one egg only. The kids usually get a big kick out of watching their parents, aunts, and uncles run around like crazy.

    Also, since I don’t comment too often, Katie you are a fantastic person and don’t you forget it!

  32. Will looks so grown-up in his little shirt/tie/khakis outfit! (I can’t believe he left the tie on for that long — you must have some powerful Mommy Mojo to get him to wear a tie!)

    Glad to hear your doctor’s appointment went well.

  33. So cute! I especially love the man basket… what a great idea!!

    Funny story – I’m actually almost exactly as pregnant as you, and had the same results at my first ultrasound! I was due November 3 based on LMP, but when I went in for an ultrasound at “11 weeks”, I was really measuring 12! Must be something about those late January/early February babies…

  34. So cute! And yay on the growing baby! We’re preggo with #3 and I have my 20 week u/s in 3 weeks…..feels so far away! No early u/s for us because we’re crazy homebirthers (not unlike crazy homeschoolers lol!)

  35. That picture of will hugging your mom.
    Oh. My. Soul.
    Precious doesn’t even begin to describe it. I think that one’s a frame-er 🙂

  36. Great pictures of your Easter fun. So glad to hear that your appointment went well. I measured about two weeks ahead of where I should have been on my last pregnancy too. Turns out, I had two in there. 🙂

  37. Will is getting so big! he looks like a little man in his adorable, I mean manly, shirt and tie! Too cute!

  39. Will is the most handsome little boy!! I dont know how you stand the cuteness?!? Easter this year was bittersweet. My papa who was 90 went to be with his Lord on Easter Sunday. We couldnt think of a better day to enter Heaven, can you imagine the celebration?!?! The sweet part was we got to spend lots of family time together!!

  40. Okay, so since you mentioned you’d be down for an Easter egg hunt, I’ll share with you our little family tradition – an adult Easter egg hunt. No, not like THAT! 🙂
    We take those Reese’s eggs – the big ones – and my mom hides them in extremely hard to find places. And I mean, she hides them WELL. She uses duct tape. She buries them. She even put one in a plastic baggie & put rocks in the back and threw it into the pool once. It’s great fun!
    Whoever finds the most is the winner with the prize of bragging rights. 🙂
    Jennifer

  41. I heard of a fun Easter activity where you plant some jelly beans the night before, then overnight go stick some lollipops in so in the morning it looks like they sprouted overnight! Wish I had heard of that while I was still a kid. Apparently you tell the kids that “it only works on Easter” – otherwise they’d be sticking candy in the dirt all the time. 🙂

  43. So glad to hear about the checkup! I know it is a relief to know baby is growing well! I absolutely love the pictures too! I am still behind on editing our Easter pics as well, so I need to get on that. I just need a swift kick in the butt to get me started. Thanks for that!

  45. Such an adorable family! We usually put the easter egg coloring on sheet pans. That way when (not if) they spill…it’s all contained.

  46. I had a neo-natal appt. week and was also told my baby-boy-to-be was measuring big. I was 18w4d going in and they said possibly 20w. We then told them that my significant other was over 10 pounds and 23 inches long at birth. This was followed by a look of sympathy and the words, “Oohh, then you’ll probably just have a big baby.” Yikes!

  47. I always do an easter basket for my hubby too! Congrats on the new lil peanut! My lil man is 20 months so just a little younger than Will, and you and I have the same due date for baby #2! When I pray everynight I’ve gotten to where I always include your little one with mine haha!

  50. Next year, use a large platter or tray under the cups. You can even line them with newspaper to help soak up the spills.

  52. Looks like a great Easter!! Is it just me or does Will get cuter by the day?!!
    So happy your appointment went well!! Still praying!!!

  53. Ha! I just bought that shaker cup on Amazon. I’ve been loving that it truly is leakproof. Happy late Easter! : )
    ryanres1

  55. I have a little boy, Jack that just turned 3 and I’d love a peek at the cute swim shorts you found at Wally World. I’d love a sneak peak! 🙂 I think you dress Will so cute and I love when you share the sources of your cute and fun boy clothes! It’s hard to dress boys but, oh so fun!

    Where did you buy that cute Easter tie Will wore!?! Loved it!

    You might be further along than you thought! So fun you got to see baby! 🙂

    ~ Ali

  58. I asked the doctor based on my ovulation and all the dates and everything…and he said that I might just grow big babies…and at 12 weeks the baby could measure big or small.
    xo – kb

  60. So many comments about this post! First off – girl, I just finally posted my CHRISTMAS morning post today – That’s how behind I got! So you’re totally in the clear for Easter 🙂 If you’re interested:
    http://www.barkingbaby.blogspot.com/2012/04/ridiculously-overdue-recap-christmas.html

    I love Will’s little Easter tie. I made my boys Easter ties this year, fo’ FREE! (Using fabric leftover from his nursery).Very exciting, and I did it in one night in just a few hours (while I made my husband watch the first two episodes of Downton Abbey). 🙂 http://www.barkingbaby.blogspot.com/2012/04/epic-easter-or-bursting-forth-in.html

    My mom is GG too! (She says it stands for Goddess Grandma). Swimsuits as shorts is brilliant – I live in AZ and that would work well here too. Sheezies is adorable. I love their little vernacular. Also brilliant? That commenter’s idea to plant Easter eggs that sprout lollipops!! So doing that next year! Your Easter baskets looked awesome. (I skipped Easter baskets this year). Fun post!

  61. reason I ask, I am due Oct. 26th and that would be awesome to know someone else with a similar due date :0) Glad to hear the little one is off to a good start! As for VBAC, there some great books out there that have positive stories about natural childbrith. Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth is a top recommended book…that is if you are not too tired or busy to read it!

  62. Random, but I felt compelled to share my fellow Easter-time birthday story. I was born on April 11; Easter happened to fall on both my 9th and 20th birthdays. I just assumed it would happen every decade or so until I looked it up once and learned they wouldn’t coincide until 2066… at the ripe old age of 82! Kinda crazy, right? Anyway, as tricky the scheduling may have been this year, you never know when the next chance is.

  63. Omigosh, so cute! You could even make it a Bible lesson, by burying the jellybeans on Friday, then checking every day until the lollipops sprout up on the third day… Easter Sunday!

  64. Dying Easter eggs looked like so much fun! I’m glad even with your OCD you were willing to do it. My son is a couple months younger than Will and I was looking forward to dying eggs this year. I bought 2 dye packs on clearance last year and had them out for a month, but the weeks got away from me. Then, I went into labor on Wed and had our daughter a week early. My MIL came to help and had NO interest in dying eggs. Too messy for her taste. I really wasn’t feeling up to it, so no eggs for my little man. We did manage an Easter Egg hunt though!

  67. Umm, nothing hotter than a guy on a sports bike!! I basically learned to ride a motorcycle just so I could ride behind hubby and stare at him. Not the best idea, since you need to really watch the road, but the alternative of driving the car behind him was just dumb 🙂

  68. OMG, I’m a lurker more then a commenter, but I had to come back and comment on this . . . You made an incest joke and it was hilarious!!! hahaha
    I seriously spit up I laughed so hard. You’re awesome! That was way too funny!
    Lots of love
    Ashli

  69. A little late on the comment, but–
    1. What beautifully clear blue eyes GG has, just gleaming right out of that photo!
    2. Gee, couldn’t you have written a little more for this post?
    3. Glad you seem to be feeling better.

    Donna

  71. Your little boy is absolutely adorable!

    I always have to point out around this time of year that “dyeing” and “dying” are not the same thing. It’s a seasonal problem.

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