Easter Weekend!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Wiers and Aunt Abby!

G & G drove out on Thursday night and spent the day with Jeremiah on Friday (because I had school on Friday.... poor me). I guess they spent most of their time watching "Praise Baby," because this is the only picture that my mom texted me all day:

I think J and "Gampa" had just finished dancing to the music when this picture was taken.

Auntie Abby flew into Des Moines Friday afternoon, and then we hit the Pizza Ranch for dinner! Sorry, no pictures. :(

On Saturday, Grandma Wiers gave Jeremiah his Easter basket! He loves his little chickie!

Try not to be distracted by Abby's out of control hair in this picture.

We also did some grocery shopping on Saturday, and mom, Abe, and I got pedicures! And now I realize how bad I was at taking pictures this weekend. :(

Saturday night we hit The Machine Shed for dinner. Jeremiah got to drive a tractor!

Such concentration.


*Sigh* My big boy.

We had a very nice time at the restaurant-- let me just say that we are very blessed to have a child who (for the most part) loves to go places and behaves so well at restaurants. I probably just jinxed myself.

He loves to color!


I'm a teacher-- I can't help myself.

Look at this yummy food!

Just kidding-- that's liver & onions! I think that was the highlight of the weekend for my mom (she's the one who ordered it-- not me!).

After dinner it was time for a bath, stories, and bed for our tired little guy.


He loves bath time!


Grandma reading to the grandkids.

Sleepy baby...


Easter morning we had a nice, relaxing time before church, which included Grandpa Wiers' famous pancakes. Jeremiah got his Easter basket from mommy and daddy!

Trying so hard to open the egg. What's inside?


As you can see in this video, the puffs in the easter eggs were a big hit (with both Jeremiah and Molly). :)

"Gamma," Abby, and Jeremiah enjoyed watching a little "Praise Baby" before church.

It's hard to tell if Jeremiah or Abby is enjoying it more.

Church was wonderful, as we remembered the real meaning of Easter-- He is risen! :)

Jeremiah was all dressed up in his Easter outfit!

Happy Easter from Jeremiah (and Molly)!

After church we had a wonderful ham dinner (or was it roast?). We had a relaxing (meaning, naps!) afternoon, and then we took a walk and hit the park!


Here's Auntie Abby encouraging my little baby to do dangerous things (like climb up the steps)!!!


At least she went down the slide with him instead of just pushing him down by himself.

Again, who's enjoying it more-- Jeremiah or Abby?

After the park and a little walk, it was time for....


Peach pie-- YUM! And J fought Molly for some ice cream:


And this morning it's back to reality. Mommy and Daddy back to work, J is back at Ms. Michelle's, and "Gampa" and "Gamma" and "Bee" are heading back to Milwaukee and Chicago. As always, the weekend went by much too fast. :(

We hope everyone else enjoyed a wonderful Easter!

2 Cute Videos

Here are a couple videos we took recently:

CUTE VIDEO 1

CUTE VIDEO 2

And to answer your questions....
1. YES, my son is wearing his very first racing shirt. I'm not pleased about it either, but I've come to accept it. He's still cute!
2. YES, we let Jeremiah watch DVDs sometimes. You try to resist when he brings you "momo" (elmo) and says please (in sign language). It's irresistible! The one he's watching in the video is "Praise Baby." He's excited to watch it with Grandpa Wiers in about a week-- it has "This is My Father's World" on it (Grandpa's favorite)!
3. YES, we are aware that Jeremiah is standing much too close to the TV. But I figure that he'll be ending up with glasses and/or a patch by the time he gets to Kindergarten anyways, so what can it hurt? Also, he didn't stay that way for long. He's very busy.
4. YES, both these videos were taken in the same day. So much cuteness in 1 day! It's normal around here.

Chip Off the Old Block, Unfortunately.

My son won't eat macaroni & cheese. Do you know how much this pains me?!?!?! Adam is trying to blame Jeremiah's picky eating habits on ME, can you believe that? However, some of the things that Jeremiah refuses to eat are my favorites! So how can that be my fault? Noodles. He won't eat noodles of any kind, for crying out loud! I could live off noodles! This is what Jeremiah does with noodles (or anything else "mushy"):

Our daycare provider, Michelle, had a small victory this week-- she got him to eat ravioli and peas! Apparently there were some tears, lots of song singing, and applesauce as a "chaser." But he did it! And he even said, "Mmmmm." So, we were bound and determined to continue this at home this weekend. Today for lunch we attempted spaghetti-o's.... and it did not go well. I held Jeremiah's arms down and held his head still while Adam tried to spoon a spaghetti-o into J's mouth (as he was screaming and wildly shaking his head back and forth). We got 1 "o" in there and Jeremiah promptly stuck his fingers in his mouth, grabbed it out, and threw it on the tray. Hmmm. Well, in an effort to show our 13 month old that we indeed ARE the parents and he WILL do what we say, we tried again. And Jeremiah spit out the "o" again and then started gagging. Huh. So, the 13 month old won, we gave up and he gobbled down applesauce, string cheese, and muffin instead.

So, are we crazy? Is our 13 month old running the show here? Being a picky eater myself, I feel bad MAKING him eat stuff he doesn't like. However, I do feel that he WOULD like a lot of different things if he would only TRY them and actually chew them up and swallow them (I wonder if this is what my own mother went through with me?). But really, we can force food into his mouth all we want, but how can you force a kid to chew and swallow?!?!?

In an attempt to get Jeremiah to try some fruits (because we can't just cut them up and he'll eat them. No, he just uses his little finger to smoosh them.) we bought those little mesh feeding/chewing things. We thought if he just gets a TASTE of a fruit and likes it, then maybe he'll be more willing to pick it up off his tray and eat it. I tried pineapple yesterday, and although I think it was a bit sour for his taste, he chewed away on it and sucked the juice like crazy. So then I tried strawberries at dinner time. And he basically smooshed the mesh bag in his hands and watched the red juice squeeze out. So. There goes that great idea.

Oh well. I'm not ready to stress out about Jeremiah not eating mushy foods. He's as healthy as an ox and getting bigger and taller every day! So he must be doing okay on his "bread diet." I figure he'll come around sometime and will soon realize just how GOOD mac & cheese is (maybe I need to try Spirals?)!

One person (kind of) who is benefiting from Jeremiah's eating habits?

Molly LOVES meal time! :)

In other news, Jeremiah got another "owie" yesterday. It was Jeremiah Vs. the metal puzzle holder, and Jeremiah did not win. See his lip?

He likes to pull all the puzzles out of the rack. Then yesterday he thought he needed to carry the puzzle rack somewhere, and then he fell and it flipped up and hit him in the lip. Ouch.

If you are in the mood for cute, here's a little video (sorry about the shaky camera... how do people walk and take video at the same time?!?!?!).