A very happy and blessed Easter Week to you all!
Yes, I'm still alive. It's been difficult to do anything lately with all the pregnancy nausea and other symptoms that go with it, thus the reason my posts have been so few. So here's a little post to let you know what's been going on.
Pregnancy: I will be 10 weeks on Wednesday and hopefully not too far from starting to feel better. The amount of pregnancy symptoms I've been experiencing is an excellent sign for which I am very grateful. And between Lent and Holy Week, it's been an appropriate time to go through it all. :)
William: He has finally taken his first steps! A couple weeks ago he "accidentally" took a step, thinking he was holding on. Since then, it seemed to click with him and he tries to take little steps here and there on his own. The most he's taken at a time has been 4. We're getting there!
He now says "hi," "Mama," "Dada," "moh" (more), "nana" (banana, which really just means food), "dinky" (stinky, which he usually says when I'm changing his diaper), "bah!" for peek-a-boo, and he's starting to mimic what we say to him.
Latest happenings: Since I haven't been feeling well, I've been pretty housebound unless I have Zenith with me. He's either been doing the grocery shopping himself, or he'll be my chauffeur and go out with me to help. I am daily awed by how helpful and understanding he is with both William and chores around the house.
However, yesterday I seem to have gotten a break from the worst of the pregnancy symptoms and actually had a good day...which was great considering it was Easter! After a lovely morning Mass, we headed back to my parents for a nice Easter dinner with them and my sister Chrissy and her family.
My mother set up an Easter egg "Resurrection" hunt where she hid 12 Easter eggs that the kids had to find, and they each in turn opened them to discover a tiny object inside. They had to guess the symbolism for each object, i.e., a piece of bread to represent the Last Supper, a toothpick to represent the spear driven into His side which drew blood and water, a piece of cotton represented the clean linen they wrapped Jesus in after His death, and the last egg being empty to represent the empty tomb on Easter. I was so impressed by all the kids guessing correctly what each thing represented and going into detail about it!
I didn't take many pictures throughout the day, but I did get some before we left the apartment for Mass as well as a few at my parents.
William's Easter basket. New cloth nappies, big boy sippy cup with a straw, Easter board book with pictures for Holy Week leading up to Easter, and of course a little bit of Australia with a stuffed koala bear.
He was very excited to wake up and find a basket waiting for him.
Dig right in!
His own Rosary that he can hold during our family rosary.
All spiffed up for Easter (minus the shiny shoes here)
I hope you all have a blessed Easter week and hopefully you will hear more from me in a couple weeks after I transition into the 2nd trimester. *fingers crossed*
~Lindsay
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