Easter Weekend

This weekend we went to my hometown for Easter.  Both my brothers came to town as well.  We ran a 5k on Saturday morning, more on that later, and then celebrated Thomas' birthday that evening because his birthday fell on Easter this year.  Thomas had requested to grill out and play yard games on his birthday.  Carter had a blast playing in the backyard, chasing the dogs, drawing with chalk, and playing on the new slide his grammy and grampy got him.  We enjoyed watching him and playing corn hole.

Carter's new thing is hiking up his pants and walking around holding them up.  Hilarious!

Jeremy and Thomas playing corn hole.

Harper always remained near Carter.

My parents happened to have a pink child's camp chair.

Sunday morning Carter woke up at 5:20 but once I brought him to bed with me and Ty he fell back to sleep and slept until 7:20!!!  He and I got up and ate breakfast.  Soon after grammy and grampy got up and we all played together.  I gave Carter the basket Ty and I got him.  It was filled with things he needed: a couple cloth diapers, some plastic bibs with pockets, and just for fun a cute onesie with a tie on it.  He was supposed to have an Easter board book, but the Scholastic book order didn't arrive in time.  We went to church while the Easter bunny got to work hiding eggs and bringing Easter baskets filled with goodies.

Carter's basket from Ty and me.

Getting dressed and playing the kissy foot game with Grammy.

Handsome boy looking fancy for Easter!

 

When we got home Carter wandered around in the front yard while Grampy made sure the Easter Bunny was gone.  We called to facetime Grandma and Grandpa and then headed inside to search for eggs.  The first egg he got was filled jelly beans.  He went to town shoving them in his mouth.  I thought he was actually eating them until he started drooling brown saliva all over the place.  That's when we realized he was shoving the jelly beans in his mouth and just holding them in his cheeks.  Grammy, grampy, daddy, and Uncie Jeremy quickly switched out jelly beans for raisins in the remaining jelly beans.  The Easter Bunny had forgotten Carter was still a little guy!

With colorful slobber dripped all over his pants!

Before naptime we got around to dying the eggs we hadn't had time for the day before with Thomas' birthday celebration.  It was neat to see Carter actually participate.  Last year he laid in the middle of the table while the rest of us dyed the eggs.  This year he actually put eggs into the dye.  My mom had seen using a whisk with small children.  It seemed like it would be great for a child a bit older than Carter, but it just enabled Carter to make a bigger mess with the dye by pounding the bowl with the whisk.  A spilled bowl and a few cracked eggs later it was time for Carter to go down for a nap.

When Carter woke up from his nap we went outside to play for a while.  I wrote "Happy Easter" in sidewalk chalk and thought it would be so cute to get a picture of Carter sitting by it.  It was a cute idea, but just wasn't happening.  Carter had no interest in sitting down, standing, or even slowly walking past it for me to snap a picture.  Of course Harper was happy to sit and pose next to the words for me.  As we were walking out the door my mom handed me the egg Carter dyed to get some pictures of him with.  He had a blast carrying it around with him.  At one point he fell and cracked the egg.  He realized there was a shell and squeezed the egg.  Excited he could rip the egg apart, he did just that and then handed out parts of the egg to the dogs.  We had a great day!  Check out last year's Easter experience here.

The best picture I got of Carter with the sidewalk chalk.

Carrying his egg around the backyard.

Checking out what was inside the shell.