Thursday, April 22, 2010

6 month checkup

William had his 6 month checkup a couple days ago!! Time has really flown by since he was born. It's hard to believe he is six months old, sitting up, eating solids, and getting so big. He is 17 pounds and 28 inches long which is the 75% for weight and well above the 100% for height. I think he will take after his Daddy in the height category. We will have to get him a new car seat very soon. No teeth yet, but he wants to chew on everything so we're thinking they should be here soon.

William continues to be a happy and sweet little guy. Clara easily amuses him and gets him giggling all the time. He is not sleeping through the night right now, but has a nice long stretch most nights. He falls asleep in the car so easily - so much different than Clara.

We are going to OKC this weekend for Tom to run in the marathon. It will be a lot of fun to catch up with some old friends and also see Tom's Grandma Trent. We are excited for her to meet William for the first time.









Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Easter!!

Easter was a lot of fun this year. We went to church and then came home for the Easter egg hunt and baskets. Clara really got into dyeing, hiding, and finding the eggs this year. She dyed Easter eggs 3 times! Once with my mom, once with Tom's mom, and once with me. She is a pro now!

I filled 12 plastic eggs last night with lots of jelly beans and a package of Hershey miniatures candy bars. Yum! I put in purple and green grass in Clara and William's Easter baskets. I arranged the little gifts etc. Everything was ready to go and looked cute for the morning. I left the baskets in Tom's closet so little eyes would not see them before I was ready. Well, I was pretty tired last night, I guess, because I did not even think to shut the closet door when I put Chelsea in our bathroom to go to sleep. Tom got up at 6:00 this morning and told me Chelsea had eaten the contents of every egg! The little chocolate bars - foil and all, completely devoured. Lots of little jelly beans - gone. (I'm glad I didn't splurge on the expensive Jelly Belly brand). Oh yes - and 2 cadbury cream eggs filled with caramel. Gone. I was pretty ticked off at myself and kinda mad at Chelsea, but what did I expect with two loaded baskets at her level? Thankfully, Chelsea is fine and somehow does not have any problems eating a ton of chocolate.

I had some jelly beans left over and a few little candy bars I had set aside for my stash that I ended up putting in the plastic eggs. Clara never knew the difference.




After church, I hid the eggs and Clara had a lot of fun hunting for them in the yard.



We tried to get a family picture. They are more funny than any good. Here are some decent ones. Tom and I didn't plan on matching, but somehow we did :)



We went to the park later on in the afternoon. I LOVE this picture of William!! The best one I have taken so far of him. He is such a doll right now. Just adorable.

Here are some other good ones.


It was soooo windy today!! Our hair was blowing everywhere. Clara had fun blowing bubbles and playing on the equipment.



The weather is finally warming up right now and it looks like Spring is here to stay. So happy to finally see some green and be done with the cold weather!