Grady's First Easter

For those of you with very good memories, Matt proposed to me on Easter 4 years ago, so it's always been a little extra special. Grady (aka Mr. Two Weeks Late) came too late by a few days for Easter last year, so Matt and I were excited to celebrate our first Easter as a family this year.

The weather on Saturday could not have been nicer.  It was especially welcome after a seemingly endless string of coldish, rainy, gray days.

We enjoyed the weather by playing in the backyard.

First we lathered up.

Then played with various receptacles filled with water.

Grady especially liked taking objects out of the baking pan and putting them into his bathtub.

Then he got to blowing bubbles in the bath.

And then, perhaps inevitably, this happened.

Time to dry off!

I made a big batch of chili earlier in the week.  Perhaps not traditional Easter fare, but Grady enjoyed it!

I spent most of Sunday trying to take a decent picture of Grady for Easter.  Unfortunately, this is all I got!

Later on Easter, when eating a rice cake, Grady looked just angelic.  Unfortunately, I don't have the appropriate Easter props, but here are the pictures anyway.

My absolute favorite thing that happened this weekend, though, is Grady learned how to do a proper kiss - rather than a wet, open mouthed bite.  I think I will try to figure out how to get this video to loop, and just have it constantly running while I'm at work.

Grady had a somewhat rough day at daycare today.  He was pretty cranky for a lot of the day and was really beside himself by the time I arrived, having just been woken up from a nap.  You can tell he is in his manic stage here right before bed tonight as he discovered a new use for the cat toy.

Tomorrow I will be gone all day for a work event in Denver.  It is only a day trip, but the timing of it (leaving at 5 AM, coming back at 9 PM) means that I won't get to play with Grady at all tomorrow.  It will be hard to be away from him, as always, but he will be in good hands with Daddy and while at daycare.   Wish us all luck, though!