Thursday, April 16, 2009

Happy Easter 2009 and Other Random Stuff

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter! This year we spent Easter weekend up in Thatcher, AZ where Blaine's parents now live. We went to their annual Allred Easter Picnic which is Blaine's mom side of the family. It never rains in Arizona, but on Easter weekend it did and so the picnic was kind of wet and cold. As a result, no pictures, but it was good to meet new family that I have never met before.

Here's Emi and Grandma reading a book at Great Grandma's house. I think that's all the pictures that I took while we were up in Thatcher, so that's pretty sad.

Because we went to Thatcher for the weekend, we had our Easter Egg Hunt on Friday night. I wasn't too sure if Emi would catch on to the egg hunting, but if there is candy involved, she will get anything. She had so much fun with the easter egg hunt that I think Blaine had to hide the eggs four times in a row.


Then she got her easter basket from Baachan and Grandpa (my mom and dad). She was super happy about that. Thank you!


Her ducky that she got for Easter that she sleeps with every night now.


As you can see from the pictures above, she has no pants because I can't afford any pants right now. Nah, just kidding... She's potty training! I started a month ago, but I was so afraid that she would revert back to diapers that I didn't say anything. She's been doing good so far, but there are some good days and some bad days that I just want to scream at her. Oh wait, I do scream at her... hahaha... But I told Blaine that I definitely deserve a mother's day gift this year for potty training our daughter.

Here's a picture from Blaine's blackberry. Oh, I wish she was always this happy when using the potty.


And... we also moved her into her big girl bed. Here she is with all her friends jumping on her bed. She had so much fun and still to this day keeps talking about it. Awww... my little girl is growing up. tear, tear ;)

8 comments:

Brittney said...

I can't believe she's potty training already! That's awesome! Hope you're feeling well. :)

Cassidy said...

Man Emi is getting so big!! Oh the thought of toilet training is exhausting. Mad props girl!!!

Laydee said...

i can't believe how big she is!

Cecilia said...

She's so cute! Good job for potty training her!
It's always good to have one kid out of diapers, when the other is born....congrats!

Brittney said...

I am really impressed that she is potty training. Wow how that simple act try's our mom patience.

Also, thanks for being such good primary teachers. Cooper loves you guys and i convinced him to give me a bite of the lemon bars. YUMMY!

The Bryan's said...

She is darling! I want to have Lucas potty trained soon!!! I can't wait! I'm so tired of diapers, I change 8 to 10 diapers a day!!!!

The Crouse House said...

such good pictures! good luck with the potty training! How fun for her to have a big girl bed! I didn't realize you are so far along! Thanks for your comments on my blog entry. My thoughts and prayers are with you in this new transition and phase of your life! Exciting, a little (okay ALOT!) scarey but I promise it is such a blessing! You are such an amazing person Aika! I still remember the day I met you at GPI - Todd took me over to your cubicle and introduced me to you! I thought what is such a gorgeous young woman doing working here!?!?!?! lol You got brains and beauty and we were all blessed by the opportunity to work with you and learn from you! You have a beautiful family Aika! Let's do lunch before the baby comes if you're up for it! Love ya!

blackstarmonkey said...

she's so georgeous. i like the potty training pics. i hope you keep them up til she's grown enough to be really really embarassed... ;)