Outtakes from Elyana's portraits

Ayden & Ken were devouring the rest of Elyana's cake when this happened....

Elyana is One!

Elyana turned one on April 29th.  We had a friend take her one year portraits and there are so many good pictures!  We love our little cutie!!

 

April

After having his top teeth loose for what seems like months, they were finally ready to come out.  We tried everything to get Ayden to let us pull his teeth out - negotiating, bribery, and begging.  As the days went on and he started not being able to eat for fear of his teeth falling out, we knew we had to do something.  I held him on my lap and Ken pulled out a tooth.  The tears and drama that followed - oh my goodness, he made quite a scene! 

 

 

We left the little snaggletooth to hang for a few more days before Ken pulled it out the same way - and the tears and drama were the same too.  He wasn't toothless for long - the adult teeth were there are ready to drop down. 

 

 We told him that he can let the next loose tooth hang on as long as he wants and we won't force him to pull it out.  Luckily, those ones aren't as visible!

April brought more baseball - games twice a week - we felt like we were living at the ball field.

We had an unusually warm spring, so we set up our new pool earlier than we had planned.  We LOVE our new pool!!

I finally caught one of our "Peek A Boo" sessions on camera.  She loves to cover her face and play!

Where's Elyana?

There she is!

Easter Sunday

We had a fabulous Easter Sunday...

 

The kids were excited about their baskets from the Easter Bunny...well, Ayden was excited and Elyana just goes with the flow.

 

 

My attempt at bunny-shaped cinnamon rolls.  Not quite like the picture on pinterest :-(

Family pictures on the porch

 

Grandma Newton came to visit for Easter

 

Matthew, Dominique and Violet joined us at church. 

This was our best attempt at a cousins picture

After church, we headed over to Bruce & Kathy's house for our annual family Easter party.  The kids (and adults) had fun hunting eggs and eating lots of yummy food!

 

Easter #1

Because my mom was heading out of town for Easter (to help with a friend's daughter's wedding), we celebrated Easter at Grandma's house the weekend before

 

Elyana and Violet had lots of fun watching Ayden play outside

 

We had a little Easter Egg hunt

 

Clues to his Easter gifts

 

Bubbles!!

 

Elyana's pretty painted toenails

 

A little baseball...Safety first!

 

Grandma & Elyana

Ayden in March

For Ayden, March meant the beginning of baseball season.  He is on the Dodgers again!  Mom was excited because that meant less of the uniform to buy.  Four of the boys from his team last year were on the team - we were all excited about having familiar faces at practices and games!

 

 

opening day!

running home after his name was announced at opening ceremonies

 

Crazy Hair day!!

easter egg hunt at school

great weather meant more bike riding time!

Elyana in March

In March, Elyana perfected "cruising" - she wasn't ready to walk, but she could pull up on anything and started to push things around.  She likes to play with her toys and loves anything having to do with her brother.

 

relaxing with a bottle

learning to use a fork!

Trying on some Easter hats at Targer

 

playing at the park

stripping during naptime

such a cutie!