Happy Easter!

Eli doing the pre-crawl fish flop...

We had a non-stop action kind of weekend... Guess with 2 boys this is what my future holds every weekend, huh?

Here are some Easter egg hunt videos from this AM... (requested by grandma)

Ben searching for one of those "Come find me" eggs that daddy hid in the bottom of the toy bucket.

And Ben sweetly stopping to feed Eli some puffs from his eggs.

Ben racing around finding eggs.

Drinking from a cup.

Think he's excited???

Other big boy news for Eli...

We put away the baby swing, bouncey chair, bumbo and thinking about putting the play mat away, too. Still have the Jumperoo out. We (hopefully) will be installing the big boy convertable car seat this week. Started finger foods - "puffs" - still a bit early, but he's doing pretty well. He loves giving his big brother hugs and kisses (term used loosely). This past week (last Friday) we started the sleep plan, and things have progressed to Eli sleeping from 8PM-6AM with no crying - just a bit of very quiet whimpering for two nights in a row. Of course, we'll have some setbacks (like last night - up crying twice), but we are on the right track for sure!

Ben: I am a baseball player.

Me: What position do you play?

Ben: Tuba.

Last weekend we were out and about - Children's Museum with friends Saturday and Andy's mom's place to celebrate Andy's birthday on Sunday. This weekend was laid back - taxes, laundry, Target and a trip to the skate park in the wagon (Ben pulled Eli the whole way there).

Cousin, wagon and tired trains

Here is one of Grant and Eli. Eli at 7 months and Grant at 4 months...

And video of Ben pulling his little brother in the wagon.

And another Ben-ism from the past week:

While driving past a large industrial train yard:

Ben: Are the trains going?

Mommy: No, they are parked.

Ben: Why?

Mommy: They need to rest - they are tired.

Ben: They can't be tired, mommy, they don't have eyes.

The sun came out...

For a few hours this afternoon. There's a 100% chance of rain tonight and 80% tomorrow. Glad we got out while the sun made its very brief appearance.

Here's Ben signing the University of Minnesota fight song (while eating nutella off his hand with a fork...)

Minnesota, hat's off to thee

To thy colors true we will ever be

Firm and strong united are we

Rah rah rah for sky-u-mah

Rah, rah rah rah

Hat's off to U of M

M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A, Minnesota, Minnesota,

Yeah, Gophers! (He usually loves the last few lines, but was a bit distracted by... well, everything)