Gracyn's first Easter at Home!

I've been a bad blogger. Reading other bloggers' posts, and failing to do my own. Gracyn is finally doing better - back to her "almost normal" sleep pattern. We've found that doing "joint compression" and "deep pressure" daily help her with her sensory issues and seem to really relax her as I lay her down in her crib. She falls asleep in her crib, but needs mommy next to her until she drifts off. Usually once I night she'll wake and if I hold her hand she'll go back to sleep. Around 5AM, if she wakes again, I let her climb into bed with me, where she gets super happy and sleeps until it's time to wake up!

I've been more concerned about this pregnancy than I was with Peyton, and have had to make several trips to the doctor. We've tried twice now to determine the gender, but no such luck. Baby is always active with legs crossed. Hopefully at my 20-week scan we'll be able to find out if it's a "brudder" or a moy-moy!

Highlights from Easter. . .

To make sure Gracyn knew what an Easter Egg Hunt was all about, we did a dry run on Friday.

 

Peyton got an ear infection on Friday morning, and I thought we'd almost have to cancel the festivities, but luckily he made a quick recovery, so I knew what I had to do. . .I had to get the picture. Well, I GOT THE PICTURES! I even got a shot of Peyton and the baby-to-be.

 

To ensure that we had 4 kiddos willing and ready to take a nap before the big hunt, we put up our jump house and had our bunnies Hoppin' like crazy!

 

After a nap in her car seat, (with pee-soaked pants), and a smooth transition from nap to awake state (a rare occurence) Gracyn experienced her first Egg Hunt at Home!

 

After the egg hunt, Auntie D found a butterfly and brought it into the house for the kids to play with. It was too injured to fly away. But butterflies have a huge significance for our family. The day we visited my mom's grave site as an entire family, there was the most beautiful monarch butterfly hovering. Looks like we got Butterfly Kisses from Heaven!

 

Auntie D lead the kids in a game of Duck, Duck, Goose, and THEN, Peyton and N had the best pillow fight I've ever seen. They were using my couch pillows, and after they agreed to trade for regular bed-time pillows, Peyton ran down the hall, yelling, "fight" - It was a like a live wrestling match in our family room. Shame on us, I know, but N and Peyton both have sisters, so a little BOY fun was needed! We have "bath-time photos" of Peyton with N&M over the past 4 years, but this is the first time we had 4 kiddos in a tub!

 

To top off the weekend, the kiddos enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt at Church. I think Gracyn found more eggs than Peyton - she's very quiet, and just carefully picks each and every single one up. Peyton likes to go crazy running around and bouncing from one location to the next. Notice Peyton's HM basket?? Thanks to Auntie D, Gracyn was gifted the Hannah Montana basket, but she was very generous and traded her brother for his Elmo one from last year. She loves Elmo! He loves HM. It was a perfect deal.

 

We hope everyone had a blessed Easter with family and friends.