An Easter Gathering

This year, we were graciously invited to Bo's Grandparent's house to join in on the Vowels Easter celebration. We almost didn't go due to a crazy-busy week, but I'm so glad we decided to go even for just a few hours. The house was over-filled with people (literally - a huge group had to sit outside as there was no room inside) and there were a bunch of kids for Abby to play with, including her favorite cousins Haylee and Chase. After a yummy BBQ lunch the kids were sent to a back bedroom while a group of adults went to hide the candy filled eggs. At close to 80 eggs there were more than enough eggs for all the kids to find. Abby had an absolute ball running around and finding all her eggs. I was very thankful for the family celebration and will definitely be stepping up my own Easter egg hunting plans!

Scott and Stephanie came for a visit and we had a wonderful time catching up. Dying Easter eggs was one of our weekend activities. 

Easter baskets for everyone!

A view of one side of the yard that was filled with eggs. Front, back, and one side looked like this. So many eggs!

A view of the kids and adults while Abby grabs another egg.

Abby and her loot. Chase was more into eating his chocolate than getting his picture taken.

Easter Performance at School

This post is all for the out of town Grandparents as it contains videos of Abby's preschool Easter performance. I went all out and downloaded them all for your viewing pleasure. :-)

After her performance we went outside for an Easter Egg hunt. This year she choose the method of grabbing the first 12 eggs (the limit allowed) she could find as opposed to last year's only selecting those deemed worthy of her. Oddly enough, half of her eggs were googly-eye toys! I thought she'd be a little disappointed in the lack of variety but she took it in stride, and I'll admit I was just fine with less candy being in her basket. :-)

Racing to gather her eggs (I could barely keep up with her!)

A happy egg gatherer. :-)

Beth and Jake's Two Month Stats

They're two months into the world and doing fantastic! They are still in their roughly three hour cycle of eat, play, sleep around the clock (with dropping the play hour during the night hours), but since we aren't counting their first month out of the womb as a real "month" they are right on track for growing great!

Let's see...they're both still in newborn sized clothes and newborn diapers (the change from Premie diapers to Newborn wasn't that big of a diaper size change, but going from Newborn to Size 1 seems HUGE!). They're both smiling and cooing but Jake tends to do this whenever you're looking at him whereas you have to work both out of Beth. She still falls and stays asleep great where he still needs lots of repeated snuggles to get and keep him down. Sadly, they're starting to lose their newborn smell. :-( The things I want to also remember are how she attacks like a bad sci-fi shark when she's heading to a feeding. She spots her prey and shakes her head side to side until her tongue recognizes what's going on and then just clomps on and doesn't let go. Jake bangs his head like that will magically make his target appear whether he's near it or not. Jake's smile is a big puppy-dog grin whereas Beth's is a coy smile of joy.

One Month Old

Two Months Old - They're faces have filled out and they're chunkier now. They're hair has taken on a life of it's own (Beth's still looks like she was electrocuted!). And they actually interact with us now!

Jake's smile. I just want to eat him up!!

Beth making you work for hers. :-) She's my gentle snuggle-bunny.

Here are Elizabeth's stats:

                 Height          Weight               Head CM
Birth           17.5 in.         5 lbs. 8 oz.
2 Weeks      18.0 in.         5 lbs. 7 oz.          33 cm
1 Month      19.2 in.         7 lbs. 9 oz.          36.8 cm
2 Months     21.0 in.         9 lbs. 7 oz.          38.7 cm

Beth remained 5% for height and 20% for weight. But my goodness she feels like a little peanut.

Here are Jacob's stats:

                 Height          Weight               Head CM
Birth           17.5 in.        5 lbs. 10 oz.
2 Weeks      180 in.         5 lbs. 7 oz.          33.5 cm
1 Month      19.0 in.        8 lbs. 2 oz.          36.8 cm
2 Months     21.1 in.       10 lbs. 2 oz.         38.3 cm

Jacob dropped to 4% for height but considering how close the lines look on the graph it could be that he was technically in the 4th percentile last month and remained the same. I'm not concerned. Doctor's not concerned. His weight stayed at 20%. He feels heavy. We're good.