The Full Easter Day

A great day full of our norms, stratta, shakes, and way too much of everything!

What kids are going to find these?




Jackson NOT taking a nap!


Peep cupcakes and adorable Susan decorating!

Happy Easter!

We're home (and tired!) from our Easter Eggstravagansa. I have plenty of pics to upload and plenty to write up, but this pic pretty much sums up Jackson's day! A little excited, a little tired & cranky, a little confused!

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Easter's Tomorrow!

And for some reason I got really excited! Maybe it's because I didn't buy anything for Jackson this past Christmas. Really, he was 2 months and barely even knew who I was, let alone what a present was. Now that he's 5 months, at least he's grabbing for things and will grab for something that looks exciting!

Donnie and I bought a basket at Costco filled with candy, took our the candy and ate it ourselves, and filled it with fun things for Jackson! I'm a little sad my Amazon order with a few more things for it didn't come on time (teethers, mesh feeders, and bath toys) but it's still filled with fun stuff for the summer.

Jumper again!

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Crunchy

The Privett Household's become a little crunchy. We cloth diaper, starting our own vegetable garden, Janet & I signed up for composting classes, and now we're baby food making!

Yes, I thought I would try it, and it's so easy! Today we went to the store because Jackson needed a nap(the car is a sure-fire bet), and I noticed green beans were on sale. So, I bought a pound for $1.29.

Cooked them,

Pureed them,


And froze them! The 2 containers in the back are little "baby cubes" so you can take the baby food to-go just like the kind they sell. I only filled 2 of 8 of those kinds to freeze, since I'm going to be making more food before we actually start giving him this food at 6 months.

Done!

How easy was that?! And at $1.29 for around a weeks worth of food, compared to around that same amount for a jar of food. I'm allowed to be pretty proud of myself for that!

Pretty Soon!

He's on the move! No, not "crawling" yet, but Jackson can definitely scoot/drag himself around. All of my friends say the nicest period is when they can sit up and play by themselves but can't move around yet. I hope we don't miss that phase!

BTW, Jackson loves to smile, AFTER I take a photo!

Thankful Thursday

1. Easter! Lot's of good candy and fun making up Jackson's Easter basket. Although as a family we may have become "Chreasters". Which apparently is what priests call people who only go to church on Christmas and Easter. We used to be annoyed with those people when we went regularly, whoops not anymore! And, we may not even make it to church on Easter, because we also used to be annoyed with screaming babies!

2. A plan for our vegetable garden. Since I didn't win the HGTV Dream House (sigh), Donnie is making it up to me by building a copy of their vegetable boxes in our yard. 3 of the boxes will be for vegetables and one will be for a sandbox, which we won't fill until next year. So exciting!

3. Donnie being off probation on Tuesday! No, not the bad probation, but the probation period every new employee goes through before becoming permanent permanent. At least one of us is set in their jobs!!

Do you know how hard it is to take pictures of a little one? I can take around 100 pics, and come up with 2 I actually like!

Trying not to be the crazy man on the bus.

I like to think I'll be a pretty good parent. (still weird saying that) But, I do get to practice on 20 other people's kids every day. And my class is pretty well managed. They've started to give me the "problem kids" because they know I can handle them. Sad to say, we kind of refer to them like horses, like, "Yeah, Mrs. Privett can break him and whip him into shape."

The only thing is when you're child is little like Jackson, and you're trying to be a good parent, you want to talk to them all the time. So they hear the language. Rambling here and there about everything you're doing, and everything that's going on. "I'm putting on your sleeper, we need to change your diaper, let's walk to the kitchen."

But, once your kid gets to school, you have to remember to get them to stop. Please! Otherwise you have a class of 20 kids telling you everything they're doing and thinking. "I need to tie my shoe, I'm walking to the drinking fountain, my pencil broke, I wrote my name funny." AHHH! My head hurts by the end of the day.

So, I'm pulling my parenting and breaking them of this. I asked them all if they've ever seen someone walking down the street or riding the bus talking to themselves. And they all laughed. Then I asked if they've ever talked to themselves, and they said no! Paha! This may take longer than I thought.

Thankful Thursday

1. Spring Break. It was just what I needed to get back to work refreshed. Donnie took the week off too, so we got tons of things done!

2. Jackson sleeping through the night. 2 times now! Although getting him to bed is a nightmare, at least once he's asleep, he's asleep.

3. Spring Weather. So nice to not be in pants today. And the weather has even made it nice enough to buy plants and get outside more.