Easter

The boys were really into the Easter egg hunt this year.

Grandma Ogilvie helping Seth find his eggs.

Fruit snacks- could this holiday get any better??

What we've been up to.

We bought a wagon, but unfortunately had a big Spring snow storm the next day.  The boys couldn't wait for better weather before they took a ride.

I don't know why Brad felt so relaxed at breakfast the other morning.  We'll have to work on keeping elbows and feet off the table.

Pushing each other in their dump truck.

You may have to zoom in to be fully impressed, but if you tell the boys which letter to get they can each spell their name.

No little kid slides for Seth, he insists on the biggest one in the park.

Brad

Seth

Too Cute

Brad, or aka "Mr. Rogers" according to Dan.

I bought the boys crayons and a big roll of paper, but they spend the majority of the time putting the crayons in and out of the box instead of coloring.

The other night they had trouble falling asleep.  We went in to check on them and Seth had crawled into Brad's bed and Brad tucked him in with all six blankets in their room.

Story time

The boys thought they were so silly sitting on the windowsill

Brad goes right to sleep, but Seth usually likes to read in bed and he insists on having all the books in their room at the foot of his bed or he has a meltdown.

It's serious business for Brad to get the Cheerios in all the right openings.

Talk about a teaching moment.  Learn to go pee in the potty and how to spell your name all at the same time.  Way to go Dan.

New Interests

The boys like to color.  We're still working on keeping it on the paper as is currently demonstrated on my kitchen floor.

Brad likes organizing his crayons almost as much as he does color.  He's very thorough.  In nursery class he almost completely covers the page with crayon.

Both the boys love the Disney movie Cars, especially Seth.  He points at the TV and says  "car, car, car".  We had a movie night for the boys while I cleaned out the freezer (you can totally tell I'm a suburbian housewife- I cleaned out the freezer on a Friday night while my husband was on an overnight scout campout).  On second thought, I totally should've watched the movie!

Hooray for Warmer Weather

We've gone to the park three times this week after a winter hiatus and the boys love it!!!  
It's more fun to take them now that they can climb up the equipment by themselves and Seth even goes down the big slide.
Sometimes I forget how spectacular the mountains are until I'm looking at them on a photograph.  The boys wanted to sit in the big boys swings even though they couldn't swing in them. 

Out With the Baby Gear

So, I'm on a kick to be done with baby gear and fully embrace toddlerhood.  I officially reached my limit on number of times I can clean a highchair tray and packed them up.  We now have family dinner with the boys in booster seats.  I feel like we could be in a Walmart commercial now when we eat.

I also put away the cribs and got toddler beds.  So far Brad hasn't needed to be rocked to sleep the last few nights, but I do have to stay in there to make sure they stay in their beds.  I'm starting to wonder if he's afraid of heights because he hated the crib but goes to bed no problem in his new bed. They like their race car sheets as well; they've watched Disney's Cars everyday for the past week.

I wanted to be done with diapers as well, but as was probably expected it was a bit too soon.  I also got the stomach flu this weekend and monopolized all facilities, but Seth did come get us to go when we got home from church today, so there may still be something to work with.