Easter 2013

Easter was an eventful holiday this year!  We had both sides of the family come in to celebrate with us. Greer was extremely excited about all the festivities and loved being surrounded by family!  The fun was non stop the entire weekend....to the point we didn't realize Greer was running a fever until we

Daddy and Greer mixing up some yummies!

ingredients for goodies to share with our neighbors

The ending product...thank you Pinterest for the "Bunny Mix" idea

Easter goodies from Ji Ji and Paw Paw

Katelyn and Greer racing through the house...

Greer LOVES his plasma car from Katelyn and Allen

Silly Hope being a bunny

The sweet treats Greer made for Mi Mi and Ji Ji at Artsy Me.

Thank you Ji Ji!  I love my new train!

His favorite furry friend he loves to sneak and pick up

Family time in the backyard

Always kids at heart

Paw Paw and his little buddy

Breakfast is served!

Jeremy and Mi Mi

Greer is still rockin' the boots

The whole crew

Greer's new scooter from Mi Mi and Gramps

He loves it!

Our pinterest Bunny cake masterpiece....this is when I realized Greer was sick...when he wouldn't smile for the camera and was not at all interested in eating the cake.  Turns out he was running a fever.

Easter Lunch

Egg Dying tradition....note to self:  do not use organic eggs for this project.  

Notice the brown eggs in the bowl.  

Egg hunt in the back yard

and the bunny came to see Greer

He loved his new "Cars" bath time toys.  

Mater and Mcqueen are very dear to his heart right now!  

All of us before church

The grandparents

The only picture we took of us three...life is a little chaotic right now being pregnant and still feeling a little yucky.  

Sweet boys!!

Potty Time

It all started a few weeks ago when a neighbor of ours gave us a potty from her garage sale.  I have been recently trying to get Greer to go on the big potty, but he has yet to do anything but sit there for a while and claim he is "done".  Well, his business usually ends with a dirty diaper if that tells you how productive our potty training has been going.....until the day we brought home Emily's potty.  You would have thought this thing was magical....well I think it kind of is!  Before I could wipe the seat off Greer plopped his little hiney down and went to town.  He tee teed a few times throughout the weekend and then left a BIG surprise in there a few days later.  I was ecstatic about him going number two.  I've heard that is the tricky part.  Greer is currently still wearing diapers and using the potty some too.  The excitement has worn off a little, but he still goes from time to time.  My plan is to attempt to do away from diapers when we get back from our week long trip to Birmingham.  I just feel like our routine will be off and I don't want to take a chance at ruining our trip by worrying about him having an accident the whole time.  We will see how it goes.  Right now he gets one peanut m&m for going number one and three peanut m&ms for going number two.  I should probably make it just one and two, but I get so proud of him when he does it all.  Here are some pretty entertaining pictures from recent bathroom experiences.    

He was taking a while this day, so I gave him my phone to keep him from getting up.  It worked.

This will not become a habit though!  I worry about how much children rely on technology to entertain themselves these days.  That's a whole different soap box though.  

It looks as if Buzz is taking credit for Greer's business.  I will give Buzz some credit, because he was the moral support Greer requested this day.  It certainly helped to have Buzz right there.  Excuse the graphic picture of what's in the pot.  The title of this post was a warning.  

Easter Bunny

We went to visit the Easter Bunny at the mall this past weekend.  I was a perfect rainy day to be inside. The bunny was a girl this year and she was precious.  Greer was so excited!  He wanted to run to the front of the line.  It was such a good teachable moment...to show him we have to wait our turn.  Once we got to the front of the line, he walked up to see the bunny and then walked over and hid behind Jeremy's leg.  Jeremy sat him next to her and he was fine.  It took a little bit of tickling and making him laugh at the duck stuffed animal they had, but we finally got a true Greer smile!

Spring Pictures

Greer had spring pictures this week.  I, of course, had to do my own photo shoot at home before we headed off to school.  He wasn't smiling as much this day, but I still got some sweet shots.