Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter everyone!! Grant had a great time this Easter, actually being old enough to realize there was something going on and he was getting new toys. He got to taste Peeps this year for the first time and loved them, but then he loves marshmallows anyway. He wasn't lucky enough to get candy from the Easter Bunny, just toys - he got matchbox cars in his eggs and presents from both sets of grandparents. We tried having Grant help us dye Easter eggs. Hmmm, maybe next year he'll be old enough. I'm afraid it wasn't much fun for him since we wouldn't let him do any of the things he really wanted to (throwing the eggs, drinking the dye, or just flipping his fingers in each of the dye colors). So I finally distracted him with the stickers that come with the egg dye kit by putting them on his belly and he stuck and unstuck them over and over until the sticky stuff was gone and they were just paper.Grant got a new Easter outfit and an Easter bunny sippy cup (which he calls his Wabbit) and a package of Bubbles with all kinds of neat bubble blower wands (one's shaped like a duck face and one's shaped like a frog face, very cool!) which he always has to have dumped all over the floor now. I can't tell you how many times I've almost injured myself stepping on those things. If the weather ever gets warm again, we'll take them outside and try them out. I'm excited to see what the duck or frog-shaped bubble wands do! Grant also got a couple of matchbox cars and a toy Thomas the Train.
Here we are opening the Thomas Train package. Grant loves his train and carries it all over the house. But he always has to make the sound for the train whenever he says the word train (choo choo!).
Here's me and Grant after church on Easter Sunday. Grant didn't get to wear the short-sleeved shirt that came with his sweater vest because it was so cold that day. (So much for spring weather, it snowed a couple days before Easter and killed all our pretty flowers) Luckily, he has a plethora of long-sleeved white shirts to choose from. He looks like such a little man in this outfit. That's his bucket of bubble wands there behind us on the bookshelf. Notice that they've been put up high so they can't be scattered (hee hee).
Here's our little guy eating his favorite food - a banana. He thinks he has to have one for every meal. At least he likes fruit. He learned a new rhyme this week - the monkeys jumping on the bed. We play it over and over and over and over. His new plea all day - 'Mama, do monkeys on a bed!'