Happy Easter!

We had a very nice Easter this year visiting with family and just relaxing. And I think both boys did really good for being gone pretty much all day and having very irregular naps.

They got their Easter baskets in the morning and Holden had a little scavenger/egg hunt to find his new basketball hidden in the oven :) Then we went to church and they both sat good all the way through the service. Lunch and visiting at Grandma and Grandpa's was afterward and then we were off to Mimi and Pap Pap's for dinner and another egg hunt for Holden - with little cars and tractors hidden inside!

It was just too bad the weather was so gloomy and we didn't get a chance to play outside at all. But other than that, we really did have a very nice day full of wonderful food and family time. Hope you all had a happy Easter, as well!

Going through their Easter baskets in the morning... aka Easter grass everywhere.

Chocolate for breakfast? It's a special day :)

Got his little bunny

Sneaking around with his egg full of jelly beans
(And in his Christmas theme pj's. We're a little behind in the seasons over here, I guess....)

Holden and Mommy at Grandma and Grandpa's house after church

The boys taking their turn to get their picture in the special chair :)

So by the time I finally was able to get them alone and together in their Easter clothes, they were both pretty much done with sitting for pictures :/

And just like that, he's happy as soon as you let him "walk."

Handsome little stinker

And the Easter bump shot.
(Which I just realized is almost exactly as far along as my "Bridger Bump" was last Easter!)

Happy Easter!

Bump.

Baby Bump #3
21 Weeks
♥

Big Boy Bed

(This was actually about month ago now, but I have been waiting to make this post until after we made the baby announcement.... didn't want to give anything away with the bunk beds :) )

So yes, Holden is officially in a big boy bed now. And not just any big boy bed.... Bunk Beds! He got to pick out his own sheets - Disney Cars - and "helped" Daddy put them together and everything. He also has 2 special stuffed animals he sleeps with and he likes to tuck them in, too. It always makes Mommy smile. And he does sleep on the bottom, but he just loves to play on the top whenever we're upstairs. I think climbing the ladder is the best part.

It took a couple weeks, but I am very happy to say that he is now sleeping in his new bed very well! I no longer find him downstairs in the middle of the night and very rarely even have to go in there to help him fall back asleep anymore. (When it's storming out, though, all bets are off.) So I think we're headed in the right direction.

Here's some photos from when we first got the new Big Boy Bunk Beds! (Say that 5 times fast.... ha!)

Helping Daddy get all the parts out

And gotta get the hardware sorted.....

Mommy and Bridger were "supervising."
I think he was excited :)

All done!

Playing on the top bunk. Silly.

And Bridger got to sit up there, too!

Pretty proud of his Car sheets and his new bed :)

Our boys and their bunk beds!

Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy!

Holden and Bridger have some news they'd like to share.....




That's right! Very soon we will have ☆3 Boys☆ in this house!

Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy!

And even sooner than I originally thought, too. All along I had been kind of guessing sometime in the first half of September, but at my last doctor's appointment I was measuring right on track for the end of August! And then the ultrasound had baby measuring even a few days earlier still. So I guess there's a good chance we may be welcoming this little guy very shortly after Bridger Dean's first birthday :)

And we're feeling really excited and happy. Happy that they'll be so close and will always have each other. I think it will be so great for them to get to go through so many stages of life together, at the same time. I'm really just feeling very blessed right now.

So get ready, World. 'Cuz pretty soon, Jared and Ashley come with three little boys. :)

Our hands are full... and so are our hearts.♥

Eight Months Old!

We are quickly closing in on a year! Bridger Dean is already 8 months old today. And growing like a weed. (Already wearing 12 month pants!)

"Playing Toys" this morning

Here's some of the latest "Bridger News":

- He has learned to chew. He still doesn't get anything very solid to eat, but he now loves Puffs. He's also starting to be able to pick them up and put them in his own mouth. (I'd say 1 out of 10 makes it in. So, he's getting there!)

- He has 3 teeth in now and I kind of feel like, from here on out for awhile, he's always just going to be working on another one....

- .....which very well may have something to do with the fact that he no longer really likes his bottles. He'll still take one, for a little bit, but then he just shoves it away. (Making Mommy pretty frustrated sometimes....) So yes. Perhaps learning to chew and teething are both contributing to his new aversion to bottles. Or maybe it's just a phase. Whatever it is, I hope it passes soon.

- He still hates being on his tummy. We're actually starting to wonder if he's even going to try to crawl. I know he's strong enough - he can get up on all fours - he just really doesn't seem interested. He would MUCH rather be standing and "practice walking" while holding onto someone's fingers. This is his new favorite thing to do and he's getting pretty good at moving his feet correctly. We're wondering if he might not just go straight to cruising and then walking and skip crawling for now. Time will tell... Here's a shot of our little Cruiser.




- He is, generally, a fantastic sleeper. He still usually wakes up once a night for a bottle, but putting him down for a nap or for bed is just so wonderfully easy. He has a bottle (or part of one, nowadays), he gets his binky, and he lays down. He's almost never asleep when he goes down. And he almost never cries at all when I walk away. Every night it still just baffles me. Holden was so very different - needing held and rocked and fed until he was completely out, and then having to sneak out of the room, etc. We are definitely blessed with Bridger's current sleep routine.

- Oh, and I weighed him this morning in his jammies after his diaper change. About 21 1/2 pounds. We have a very solid little boy :)


Here are a few more photos from this morning when he was playing. Happy 8-Month Birthday, little one!