My baby is 10 months old!

     How did this happen?! Ten months have passed and it's become a blur. Channing is close to walking, eating new foods every day and is so full of character. He is not a newborn, almost out of infancy and well on his way to becoming a toddler. He can now stand up on his own and today he started clapping once he's stable. I think he started doing this because Lucas and I would yell, "Yay!" and clap every time he stood on his own. Now he gets so excited himself and celebrates with us. He took two steps last week and is working on three. His food list is getting longer by the day and the only thing he has tried and didn't like is avacado. He's still the smiliest baby ever though he has been a bit fussier these past few days and drooling buckets so hopefully teeth will follow soon. I've already begun prepping for his big FIRST birthday party and admittedly, stressing out a little as it feels like it's right around the corner. But we have decided to go much smaller this time and hopefully will continue that trend for birthdays to come.

So wait no more, the adorable TEN month old Channing!



Showing off his standing skills

He loves Lucas' sippy cups. He has proven that younger siblings learn from the older ones. He has been stealing Lucas' sippy for months now. (FYI- It's pink because I ordered a set from Amazon and the picture did not have a pink cup. Oh well.)

He's becoming little boy! But still as smiley as ever!

Watching big brother outside

Sweet hands that will soon be covered in dirt and not baby soft



He is Risen!

    We had a great week celebrating Easter! Lucas is at the perfect age to go on Easter egg hunts and it was so much fun coaching him through it.






   We started the festivities on Wednesday at the YMCA. Our friends have a membership for their two year old daughter and the Y opens up the egg hunt to non-members. The toddler room where the egg hunt was happening was packed full of kids and parents and it was difficult to keep my eye on Lucas, being the busy little boy that he is! The kids played for the first 30 minutes then they had circle time where we were led in songs.

He loved this "ball" pit and spent most of his time fearlessly jumping in it!

Happy boy playing with the big kids!

Funny picture of Lucas trying to climb out of the pit

    Then we hunted for countless eggs! Lucas had a harder time actually looking for the hidden eggs so we found an area where the eggs were all over the floor, in the open. He loved this and quickly caught on and soon had his Thomas Train basket full of eggs!

Channing's first egg hunt

Showing me what he got...a gecko that he called "Co" which is his word for bug

I think he looks a lot like my brother Josh in this picture



    Easter day was full of activities and we didn't stop until 10pm. We began Sunday morning as usual, with church. It was a difficult time to attend church because the previous week had been our beloved pastor's last week. We were hoping to attend a great service that would distract us from our "new" church but it turned out to be very disappointing. The guy in charge had a musician come in that basically performed and wasn't that good. He did the hokey pokey! I know, we couldn't believe it either. But thankfully it was over in an hour and we did a quick egg hunt after church. Here are the highlights...



The only picture I got of Channing at this egg hunt, couldn't get one with his eyes open because it was so bright!

    We rushed home after the church egg hunt, ate lunch and then hit the road for my grandparent's house near Centrailia. The car ride down was very pleasant and it was a beautiful day, something that is so rare for an Easter in Washington. The boys slept most of the way and Josh and I enjoyed the quiet and a frappacino.=) Lucas had a blast with the egg hunt at my grandparent's. They have a beautiful property and he was the only kid to do the hunt so he really got spoiled.

He wasn't too sure about the bug. It took a lot of convincing to get him to put it in his basket.

Caught him mid yawn=)

One of my favorite pictures ever!

There are few pictures of me with either of my boys. Love this!

    It was a great day celebrating Jesus' resurrection! We had a yummy dinner and lots of treats. So many in fact and mix that with a long car ride, Lucas got car sick 10 minutes from home.=( It was miserable and this wasn't the first time so we will have to be careful about road trips. But overall it was a memorable Easter!