Hoppy Easter Every Bunny

Today was a big day for Easter Egg Hunts. I was super excited to take Keegan out. This is his third Easter but this was the first year that he would be able to understand what was going on and really have fun hunting for eggs. Our original plan was to just get up and go to the Alpenrose Dairy as they have a big Egg Hunt every year and they also have a hunt for diamond earring for the moms. However, when I was in Albertson the other day I saw a sign that said they would have the Easter Bunny and an Egg Hunt this morning. So I told Matt that I wanted to take Keegan there just in case the weather was too bad and we couldn't take him to the other. I remember when I was a kid our big Hunt was down the aisles of Smith's grocery when it was over by our house. So I kinda laughed about the thought doing the same thing with Keegan. I said to Matt when we pulled up, I hope this isn't lame. (The reason that thought crossed my mind is because at Christmas time they said free pictures with Santa and when we got there, it was not well done and they had a cross eyed Santa) So we went inside and the store had the whole meat section blocked off and then had the kids gathered around. The floor was covered with plastic eggs and candy galoure and there weren't very many kids. Some of the eggs had paper in them that had a prize. So the whistle rang and we were off, well at least Matt and I. Keegan grabbed one egg and wanted to open it before he moved on. We kept hollering, get it Keegan get more, fill your basket. He didn't really care about that. He kept looking around and saying "Easter Bunny where are You?" and then he would go and look for the bunny. In the meantime we were trying not to take all the candy from the kids, and Albertson's had good candy. We were modest about it. Needless to say, it ended up being a lot of fun. There wasn't a crowd and Keegan got his fill of eggs and the prizes that he won were, 3 one pound bags of carrots, I guess that is so you can eat a piece of candy and then try to make yourself feel better by eating a carrot, he won a corn dog and a hot chocolate. I think we will be back for this hunt again next year. Super fun.

Next we were off to the Alpenrose Dairy for another easter hunt. The ride over there took us almost an hour with the amount of traffic that was headed that way. The crowd was huge and they threw chocolate eggs on the grass and then released the kids to gather as they could find. Keegan did pretty good. He wasn't really that interested and Matt got a little crazy by the crowds. Instead of seeing the Easter Bunny that was supposedly there we saw a Moose. I don't know what the Moose had to do with Easter, but ok. Keegan was scared of the Moose and he has been walking around saying, "Moose is scary" We decided not to stay for the mother's diamond hunt because the crowd was massive. There were thousands of people there today. By this time it was getting cold and Myles was hungry so we decided to take our chocolate eggs and go home. We probably won't do that one again, but we might visit the dairy again. There were lots of attractions to look at there and on a nicer day we will go back.

Keegan over all had a fun time. I think he has eaten so much candy that he is refusing to take a nap or eat any lunch. I wonder what the Easter Bunny has in store for him tomorrow.

Hoppy Easter Every Bunny.

So Proud of You

It is time to play a little catch up.  A little over a week ago we decided to move the queen mattress into Keegan room so that he could start trying to sleep in a Big Boy Bed.  We figured we would start off by trying to get him to take naps on there and then we were crossing our fingers that we could move to night time sleeping.  It started off really slow, and naps went ok.  There was a lot of getting up and opening the door and daddy standing outside saying " go lay back down"   We decided that we weren't going to push the issue really hard because Keegan has already been through a lot of change since bringing the baby home.  When we take him upstairs we ask him if he wants to sleep in the Big Boy Bed and at first for awhile he would say no, he wanted the baby bed.  Well about 3 days ago he told Matt that he wanted to sleep in the "Good Boy Bed" that is what Keegan calls it.  So Matt went up to rock a bye and Keegan wasn't too interested in it.  He just looked at daddy and said
"Good Boy Bed"  so Matt laid him down and sat in the chair for a few minutes and then left the room.  We were quite expecting him to be in and out of our room the whole night with this new freedom, but much to our surprise he didn't come in until morning.  He had slept in the Big boy bed the whole night.  I guess that first night he did cry a little so I went in to check on him and he said "mama lay down" so I did lay there for about an hour.  We were so proud of you Keegan.  That was a pretty big deal.  So we have tried it the last 2 nights as well and he has done GREAT!!!!  He is sleeing in the Big Boy Bed all by himself.  I absolutely love about 7:30 in the morning when he comes running in our room screaming " Hi Daddy"  then he crawls up on the bed and snuggles with us for a few minutes.  He is growing so much and as much as I miss the smallness of our little boy, I love to see how much he grows and changes.  I just want him to know that we are so so so proud of him, he is such a funny little boy and he is such a blessing to our lives and our family and I am looking forward to seeing his example as a big brother.  I love you Baby K.

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