16 Months

This little sweetheart is a toddler! He's all over the house, walking much more often than he crawls. He is constantly getting into something or climbing on something, but he's such a doll! Trevor is such a busy little guy. I find him playing independently more and more often, although he still loves to be with me all the time too. The other kids enjoy playing with him a lot too, although sometimes they would rather that he stay out of their games. He loves when they push him around in a laundry basket and sometimes Asher will do it for a very long time- so long that I can't believe he isn't exhausted. Trevor also loves pushing his popper toy around and playing with balls. The older boys like to play with him passing a ball back and forth.
Trevor is a man of very few words- he says more, dad, and nana (banana), but not very often. He prefers to point and squeal or just go get whatever he wants by himself. If he wants me to pick him up, he walks up to me and squeezes me around the legs as tight as he can. I should reinforce that he needs to learn to say "up", but I'm not really worried about his language skills. He is so much like Asher who also didn't say much until about 2 1/2 when words and sentences suddenly started pouring out of him.
I mentioned to the boys the other day that when Asher was 16 months old, Leif was born-crazy that I had a newborn with such a little guy. But the lives of the oldest child and the youngest child are quite different. Asher had to be a big brother (and is still so good at it!) but Trevor is happily enjoying being the beloved baby of the family.

Easter

Dying Easter eggs was the highlight of the kids' week! The boys had been asking constantly when we were going to do it, so they were so excited when we finally got around to it. Of course, Trevor just did a lot of watching, but he had fun too.

Leif was determined to make a red egg, even though I told him that red was the hardest color to get to work right. He left it in for almost an hour, and by the end of it, he had a very red egg. Unfortunately, by Sunday morning, it looked more like dark pink.

Heidi was a little dye-happy and after she had finished her 6 eggs, she took one and dipped it into about every color she could get her hands on. It ended up being a greenish-grey color.

Easter morning was quite cold- we even got snow. So the Easter bunny hid the plastic eggs around the house (an completely forgot about the real eggs!) The kids were very anxious to get started. The boys had to wait for Heidi to wake up, but they couldn't wait for Trevor, and since he's too little anyway, we just let them start their hunt.

We made the boys leave all the pink eggs for Heidi just to be sure that she got some.

Here are Heidi and Austin opening a hatchimal. Little animal figurines that come in eggs- the kids are crazy about them!

They got mostly jelly beans and a few chocolates (perhaps the Easter bunny and his wife accidentally ate all the M&Ms and Cadbury Minieggs (which she has now sworn off!;) ) The boys also got some Legos scattered throughout the eggs and a few other toys. The boys were most excited about getting some bubblegum in their Easter baskets, since I typically don't allow them to have their own packs of gum- Heidi is too likely to get it and we'd have it all over the house and in her hair.

Look at those chocolate faces!

The kids ate the hard boiled eggs with some fruit for breakfast. We've discovered that all of our kids seem to love the whites, but won't eat the yolks- crazy- I was the other way around.