Easter

We had an Easter egg hunt at Grandma and Pawpaw's house on the Saturday before Easter.  Kyle's family was in town, so there are pictures of Nolan and Emory's two cousins that aren't related to Wyatt, as well as his cousins Nolan, Emory, Abigail, and Allison.  Last year Wyatt sat in the grass and picked up one egg to play with.  This year he walked all over the yard finding eggs and putting them in the Easter bucket.  Grandma and Pawpaw gave everyone these sand pails for Easter baskets, which was great.  He will be able to use this bucket all summer long in his sandbox and at the lake.  He also loves his new tractor book that came in the Easter bucket - and Mama is loving his chocolate bunnies Grandma made.  Sorry Wyatt - maybe next year I'll let you have some candy.  We'll see :)

I love how he is holding up his egg - so proud of it.

Wyatt and Emory.

Opening up the egg

It's more fun to just dump out the whole bucket.

Wyatt dumped out his eggs and then said, "hat" as he put this on his head.  He put it on and off many times.

A grin each time he took off his "hat."

We enjoyed having hot dogs and hamburgers for our pre-Easter celebration with Justin's family.  It was the perfect weather, unlike the actual day of Easter.  It started pouring right around the time church let out.  Our church building only has one covered drop off/pick up point.  I must have stood holding Wyatt for 20 minutes waiting for Justin to bring the car around, because the line of cars was so long.  We waited so long Wyatt fell asleep in my arms (wow is he heavy), and woke up refreshed by the time Justin arrived.  Because of the rain I didn't manage to get any pictures of the three of us in our Sunday best clothes.  Wyatt wore his suit and looked just adorable.  I do have a few photos of Wyatt checking out what the Easter bunny left for him.

He enjoyed taking out the items and showing them to Daddy.  He got some plastic animal figurines, some books, play-doh (we haven't tried that out yet) some new crayons, a car, and a new children's bible.  When we left to go to services we found the Easter bunny had also visited our porch and left him a basket of goodies and some plastic golf clubs.  Thank you mysterious Easter bunny!  Last year he got a basket from the same mysterious bunny (our neighbors I assume).  He loves hitting things with the golf clubs - thankfully he is usually aiming at the plastic golf balls or some of his plastic ball pit balls.  He also likes to "feed" the animal figurines.  The lion and the elephant have open mouths, so he thinks they need "bites" just like he does.  So cute!

I hope everyone else had as fun of an Easter weekend as we did.  It was busy and packed, but a lot of fun. 

Butterflies and Bunnies

We tried to go to the Butterflies in the Garden exhibit at the Botanic Gardens on Saturday with Justin, but they were sold out for the day (even though we had already paid for our tickets with groupon).  We took a few pictures walking around the gardens though, and enjoyed looking at the orchids in their orchid sale and show inside the building.

Then I went back and got to actually see the butterfly exhibit with my friend Christine on Monday.  Here are some pictures from that trip (thanks to Christine for these - she is a great photographer)

We are looking at a whole bunch of turtles sunbathing.

Parker - isn't he a cutie!

And now for my pictures from the exhibit.

He was mesmerized - by the waterfall I think, not the butterflies yet.  This is right when you first walk in.

There were a lot of these feeders with Owl butterflies (sleeping - they wouldn't move at all - I guess that is where the name comes from, they must be nocturnal).

Wyatt and Parker checking out the plants and butterflies.

Today we went up to the Watauga Public library where they had bunnies!  Wyatt had so much fun petting the sweet bunnies.  He was really sweet with them too.  Towards the end of our second time in he kept trying to pick up the bunnies and put them in his lap (he was copying me because I would pick them up and put them in his lap).  The kids weren't supposed to pick them up though (for obvious reasons).

Mrs. Christine and Parker petting the bunny.

After we came out the first time he was trying to pet them through the fence.  So cute.  We went back in for a second visit.  Good thing we did it then too - a few minutes after we headed into the library the crowd increased and there was quite a line.

Macy petting the bunny.

Mrs, Tara with Jaxon and Wyatt petting the bunny.