Changing of the Beds

We switched Carter into Olivia's room last weekend. (Now known as Carter AND Olivia's room.) I didn't know how he would handle the change, but he's done quite well. He still asks to sleep in all different places besides his own bed, but in the end, he USUALLY falls asleep in his bottom bunk. I do still have to use a stupid baby monitor for him though. Since he can wake up as early as 5am, I have to hear him before Olivia does or I'll have two kids up at 5am...it's happened already and it's not good.

Maybe someday I'll get to make coordinating quilts for their beds. Until then, this will do.
I need to enjoy this picture because I won't see Olivia's bed made that good very often. I am one of those that makes the beds every morning, but making that top bunk bed and my large abdominal area don't work very well together.

A few nights ago, Carter was having a hard time falling asleep in his own bed. He wanted to either sleep on the top bunk with Olivia or in the baby's crib. I told him it was either the floor or his bed. When I checked on my kiddo's before going to bed, this is what I saw...Olivia zonked on her top bunk and Carter was gone.

Oh wait, he was just under his bed.
If I remember right, when I was younger and shared a bed with my little sister, she also slept under the bed once. Only my mom didn't have such a easy time finding her with the bed skirt.
Maybe it's in the genes.

Also, yesterday, I went to get Carter up from his nap and he was climbing down from Olivia's top bunk. After inspecting the pillows (it's either sweat or drool...who knows?), it was obvious that he napped on the top. Olivia wasn't too excited about that ;)

I wasn't anticipating all the work that went into switching rooms, but I think we are done!
(That doesn't mean I'm ready to have this baby yet though.)

Easter 2009

Our Easter celebrations started on the 4th with the city's egg hunt. What a great way to get lots of candy.

Since nobody wanted to do anything but look at the Easter Bunny from afar, we killed some time on the swing at the park before the big egg hunt began.

Carter was a pro at filling his basket.

After calling it good, we let the kids sit down and dig in. What joy!

We had another egg hunt on Saturday the 11th, but since it was at our quarterly Primary activity (and I tend to keep kind of busy at those types of activities ;) I didn't get any pictures. Olivia had a great time at it though. We made a bunny bags (idea drawn from this) to put all the eggs in, watched a short movie, had a good egg hunt & then played Octopus tag. I found it fun to see how creative the kids were with their bunny bags.

Here are our Easter Sunday pics. Even though our church services don't begin until 2pm, I still didn't manage to get pictures before church. So these are slightly sloppy 6pm pictures. I didn't get time to find anything real nice for Carter to wear before Easter Sunday either (but I scored some great clearance buys (plus coupon savings) at Gymboree this week to make up for it:)

Olivia in her Belle dress.

I down played the Easter egg coloring this year. We only colored six eggs on Sunday night (time was short and we never eat them before they go bad). But after seeing how much they really loved doing it and wanting so badly to do a few more, I'll have to go back to my old ways and be better next year.

Jason Lunt Family Visit

Aaron's brother, Jason, and his family (Diana, Bella, Savannah, Braden & Lincoln) came to visit us last week since they were on Spring Break. It was a fun, busy & crazy weather week (from shorts to snow to sunshine).
Our visitors got here last Sunday and since the weather was nice, we played outside a lot. I'm so grateful for our swing set that came just in time.
On Monday we took the kids to see the movie, Bolt. That was Carter's first time at the movie theater. He exhausted his portion of the snacks quickly and was then ready to leave half-way through it, but ended up falling asleep after deciding to share a seat with his cousin, Savannah.

Aaron took Tuesday and Wednesday off of work so that he could hang out with us. On Tuesday, we drove through a blizzard to get to Dayton and tour the Air Force Museum.

On Wednesday the snow was gone and we had some sunshine. It was a little chilly, but we headed to downtown Cincinnati anyway and played at Sawyer Pointe park.

The adults got a good workout trying to fly the kids kites for them.




We also considered walking over to Kentucky, but only got half-way before we decided to head back and eat dinner.

Wednesday was a great day.

Thursday was again, beautiful weather and so we stopped by Parky's Farm to check out the animals and play. The chickens must have seen us snacking at the picnic tables because they nearly attacked us.

Savannah was one of the only girls on the playgroup and so the boys tried to attack her.

Thanks for coming to visit Jason & Diana.
(L to R: Lincoln, Braden, Bella, Olivia, Savannah, Carter)

kites & bacon

Olivia was so excited to get her own real kite this week. She was in the backyard for quite awhile waiting for the gusts of wind to blow it up.

It was so exciting for her when her kite would fly "so high." (Actually, I had to tape the string off so it would only go about six feet high since we have power lines overhead.)

The reason this was so exciting for her: Olivia has been making her own kites for the last few months (from paper, popsicle sticks and curling ribbon) and always wondered why they never worked.

As far as I can remember, this is Carter's first time falling asleep during dinner. This "no nap" transition is a hard thing most days for him. Especially since he is still usually awake for the day by 5:30am.

Just a goofy boy that wanted to wear his swim trunks in the bath tub.

A quick Carter story:

Carter was asking me this week why Daddy had to go to work. I told him it was so Daddy could bring home the bacon. He looks at me surprised and asks, "turkey bacon?" Carter loves his turkey bacon!