Hooray for Spring! And for flowers and
blossoms and birds and sunny days!
We did our Easter Bunny activities on
Saturday. We hid a small
sand bucket with some toys in it for Ethan to find, and we hid a dozen eggs around our apartment for an egg hunt. He
understands the concept of looking for eggs, but we have to point him in the
right direction for him to actually find them. :) We also took him outside to
do bubbles. This was only his second time, and the first time was 8 months ago.
He thought the bubbles were pretty neat, and so did three neighbor kids that
were playing outside. They came over to investigate and ended up having a blast
trying to catch the bubbles. :)
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You'll notice it didn't take us
long to remember to put newspaper under the egg dye. :)
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| Ethan loved plopping the eggs in
the dyes and then digging them out with the metal dipper. His eggs were all
brown and gray and purple by the end and putting them in all the colors
several times. :) |
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| Ethan didn't help with these at
all, but they were really fun to make. :) |
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| Ethan holding one of his plastic
eggs from the hunt we made in our house. |
Saturday and Sunday we watched General
Conference from our computer. I love General Conference! To me, it feels like a
healing and rejuvenating spiritual balm to listen to so many inspiring talks
from the Lord's messengers. I think Elder Holland and President Uchtdorf were
my favorite speakers this time; although it's hard to judge since I like a lot
of them. I even get a little sad after it's over because I look forward to it
so much. Ethan did pretty well most of the time. It is tricky having conference
from 12-2 and 4-6 since it runs into meal times and nap time, but it all works
out.
We had Easter dinner with the Bishop's
daughter, Jenni. She's a young single adult that lives at home with two siblings right now. She loves to cook and made us a really nice meal. The
Bishop and his wife were on a trip to the Cayman Islands, a very well-deserved
break for the two of them!
Ethan turned 20 months on Saturday. He
just learned to climb up on the kitchen chairs by himself and so my
"Ethan-safe" areas keep shrinking. He also just figured out that he
can open the fridge by himself. This is nice that we don't have to get his milk
for him every time, but hopefully we won't have problems with it as well. We
have also been working with him on walking up and down the stairs. He can do
it while holding onto the side rail, so it's nice not to have to carry him up and
down the stairs. He could crawl up them, but the stairs outside our apartment
can be pretty dirty, so I usually carried him. Ethan is starting to say more
words, or at least I'm starting to recognize a few more. One word we're hearing
more is 'no.' But his default answer is still 'yes' to pretty much any question
we ask him. He loves nursery and goes willingly. He hates diaper changes and
tries to avoid it as long as he can. :) He is pretty expressive at home and
pretty non-expressive when we're out and about. He also likes to wave at
strangers and loves it when they smile and wave back to him.
Jason and I love to watch him dance to music! It is so cute! Ethan learned to
turn on the stereo and turn on his favorite CD. Sometimes he turns it on three
times a day. He loves music! He even dances to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. :)
We just love our little boy!
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| Ethan -- 19 months |
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| My two cuties |
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| Walking down the stairs |
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