Easter

The past few years we've gone to a community Lutheran church, the same church Emory went to for Bible School over the summer, for their Easter egg hunt. They always have blow up houses, food etc. The kids love it. This year Jeremy's friend from work, Josh, came with us which was fun.

Our ward also had an egg hunt. We were, however, a bit late getting there so the hunt was pretty much over. McKelle started crying when I told her I think we missed it. Fortunately, the ward kids were awesome and "dropped" some more hidden eggs for the two kids to find. They had a good time. The primary kids also sang a few songs afterwards and did great! McKelle was nice and loud and gave me a sweet thumbs up during the performance :)

I spoke in church for our Easter sacrament meeting and had a great response afterwards. It was a neat experience to see how the spirit directed me when preparing the talk the whole way. One night, after attending our adult stake conference session, basically my whole take just came to me! I've never had that happen before. It was pretty cool.

We've been taking a quick 15 minutes or so this week to do something small to remind us of Christ last days here on earth. We reenacted His triumphant entry, visited the temple, died Easter eggs, had a special passover dinner etc. I think the kids have really enjoyed it and it has helped make this season special.

Harrison is 9 months

Harrison had is 9 month check up yesterday (even though he's closer to 10 months now). He was 18 pds, 18% percentile, and 29in long, 66% percentile. I feel like he's not nursing anymore. He'll get one or two good feeds a day which are like 6 minutes total, that's it. I can't get him to stay on for more than 30 seconds! It was the same with Emory too. I always thought it was because I got pregnant that Emory stopped but going through it again with Harrison made me remember that he was just too busy to nurse and it was a wrestling match to keep him on long enough to get any milk! Same with Harrison. Ever since he got those fevers a while back, his nursing has gone way down! He'll take a 6oz bottle of formula before bed and he'll eat 3 good meals a day of baby food/finger food but as you can tell, his weight is pretty low for the average (which is exactly how Emory was too).

He is, however, finally sleeping through the night. We dropped his third nap so he'll take a morning nap from 9-10:30/10:45 and then an afternoon nap from 1/1:30-3/4. He'll go down for bed around 7pm and wake up usually after 6am.

He still has no teeth (the other kids got their first at 9 months I believe), but they'll come in soon. He loves clicking his tongue and is babbling all the time. The most noticeable syllable is "mama" of course. He has also figured out how to scream! We're constantly reminding him to talk instead. He likes shaking his head "no," playing the piano, swinging, bath time, his walker and oranges. He is eating all kinds of food and usually prefers finger foods to baby food. When sitting on the stairs one random day, he started to climb them! He can pull himself to a standing position. He's still practicing crawling on his hands and knees. He'll get up on all 4s and sometimes will move a leg or two while still on his knees. He actually does it best in the bath tub which is kind of funny. He has the cutest facial expressions and will often wrinkle his noes and squint his eyes, too cute!! The other thing he does that is so sweet is when he is on top of something soft or fluffy, he'll bury his face in it and shake his face and hips back in forth while screaming. Its too funny.

He's just the best and everyone loves him!

Emory's Music Class

I continue to be so impressed with Emory's music class. He is learning so much and doesn't even know it! The teacher will play three different cords on the piano and he's able to identify which ones they are which I can't do! He is also able to look at a piece of paper that I'm holding and play the coordinating color cord on the harpsichord while strumming too. He loves playing the harpsichord best and takes a lot of ownership in "his" bells. I love it! He's going to have such a strong musical foundation from this class.

It has also inspired Jeremy to start playing music again. He's really spent some time playing the piano lately. I love having music in our home!