"He is not here; he has risen!" -Luke 24:6a
On Monday, I got another picture of Joseph walking around in his daddy's shoes, this time with them on the wrong feet.
Tuesday afternoon, Joseph and I met our friend, Mrs. D, and her little ones K, B, and AR, at the Greensboro Children's Museum for a play date. The kids had an amazing time!
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| Joseph enjoyed having his picture made on the giant chair in the front lobby... |
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| As did everyone else in our group! |
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| B and K put on a great play for us in the drama area |
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| And Joseph enjoyed hovering over the pretend citrus fruits in the "supermarket" area... |
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| While K played cashier! |
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| The pretend hospital area was fun, too. K was so great with Joseph...she really looked after him and led him to all the fun things to do! |
On Wednesday, I took Joseph to Belk's so that we could pick out his outfit for Easter Sunday. Here is my handsome little guy in the dressing room!
Every one in a while, I liked to take a picture of Joseph sleeping via our baby monitor when I catch him in a cute position. This picture was taken Friday morning...
Friday mid-morning, Mrs. J, one of the mommies at our church, had a ton of the other Westover parents over for an egg hunt in their backyard. Joseph had a lot of fun, although he learned to open the eggs to see which ones had candy and which ones did not. It took some time to convince him that the no-candy eggs still were supposed to go in his basket. Silly boy!
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| Play time before the hunt started |
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| Easter Bible story time |
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| Hunting! |
On Friday evening, we dyed Easter eggs on our back porch. As we were setting up, our sweet next door neighbor, Ms. Susan, walked over with an adorable stuffed bunny for Joseph that is almost as big as he is! We had fun visiting with her and Mr. John for a few moments, and Joseph gave them a dyed Easter egg in return. We love our neighbors!
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| A boy and his bunny. Joseph told us Saturday morning "I love dat bunny!" Thanks Ms. Susan and Mr. John! |
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| Joseph, of course, had to include his beloved "Blue Bear" in the egg-dying process |
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| And here goes the dyeing! |
Saturday we went downtown to the Center City Park and the Greensboro Historical Museum. It was cold and windy but still a beautiful day! The Greensboro Historical Museum had a very interesting exhibit going on about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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| Center City Park |
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| Joseph enjoyed learning about Warnersville, a historically African-American community in Greensboro |
Another really exciting thing happened Saturday afternoon - we got our Tula! Tula is a company that makes baby and child carriers for babywearing. They make a standard Tula, similar to the Boba 3G we have always used to wear Joseph, but they also make a toddler Tula which is bigger and more supportive for older toddlers and preschoolers. Since Joseph, at almost 2 1/2, shows no signs of giving up being worn, we decided this would be a good investment. Tulas are 100% handmade in Poland and it took over 3 weeks for our toddler Tula to clear customs in both Poland and NYC and make it to our doorstep in Greensboro. I was so excited...I saw the mailman coming and ran to meet him in our driveway, all while telling him "I've been waiting over 3 weeks for that package from Poland!" I'm sure he thought I was insane. I just love the hot air balloon print...it's even prettier than I anticipated. And it's so comfy to wear Joseph, on my front or my back!
So, what does one do when their new Tula arrives? Why put it into action, of course! I wore Joseph in it around our neighborhood lake and down to our neighborhood park. Joseph loves to swing on the "big kid" swings while sitting on my lap, and I have to say the Tula makes that much easier!
Joseph loves his new Tula! I went to move it the other night right before he went to sleep and he cried because I wouldn't put him in it! I think this was a good purchase!
Easter Sunday was wonderful! We got up and opened up our family Easter basket...so much fun and we have enough candy to last us until next Easter I'm pretty sure!!
We went to church and heard a great sermon! Since the service was so packed and our church parking lot was so full we parked at the satellite lot across the street and road the shuttle over to church. I didn't get any pics of this, but Joseph loved riding the "Biiiiig bus" (which isn't all that big, just a standard shuttle bus, but I guess to a 2 year old it looks pretty big).
After church, we went next door to our neighbor's house (the same ones that brought Joseph the giant bunny). Some other neighbors down the street had their son baptized Sunday and were having the reception at our next door neighbor's house. It was great! Great food, great fun, and great friends! Joseph had a ball eating and playing with balls and toys! Thank you Liliana, Jose, John, and Susan for having us!
We ended the day by going to my grandmother's house for an egg hunt and a traditional Easter dinner of ham. Joseph loved hunting eggs in Great Mimi's backyard!
My mom, crafty as she is, made a super cute Easter table...
Joseph paused for a photo-op with Papaw and Nonie...
And my mom was able to get some Easter pictures of the three of us...
Happy Easter! HE IS RISEN!!!
On one final note for this week, I can announce with mixed emotions that our final IUI was unsuccessful. As our journey fighting secondary infertility comes to an end, we wish to thank all of those who have encouraged us and prayed with us over the past two years. We have some pretty exciting options in the works in terms of building our family from here, and I'm hoping to announce more about all of that soon! Please keep us in your prayers as we seek God's will on how He wishes to bring more children into our life!
Everyone have a great week! :-)
