The last week of March was Spring break for me, so no work! Which gave me a great chance to redo baby girl's dresser and finish up her macrame! The macrame was actually easier than I thought it would be and turned out great! The dresser gave me some issues because whoever owned it beforehand tried to hot glue the drawers together! It looked terrible and was definitely not doing a lick of help at contributing to the actual integrity of the drawers. So I had to spend some extra time stripping all that gunk off and reapplying actual wood glue where needed. The dovetails still have some gaps but because they're dovetailed, the drawers are actually pretty stable anyway. Also, this dresser was the first chance that I've had to work with wood filler. I have to say, I didn't do a great job. I filled the nicks pretty well but don't do as well with the old hardware holes. I can still see where they were. But, it was a learning experience and I'm sure next time I will do better. And I am happy with the way the dresser turned out! The hardware looks so good and I love how the white makes the piece feel so much more delicate and less bulky and I also feel like it really highlights the detailing on the bottom.
Look at that nastiness! So gross! Also visible in the background, Levi "helping" and his favorite screwdriver haha.
Before photo of the dresser
Afterwards!
Anyway, Spring break ended with General Conference weekend which was also Easter weekend and Levi was very excited for the Easter egg hunt he got to do with his buddies Lincoln, Porter and Riley! We met up at a park between sessions on Saturday for the hunt and just scattered the eggs around the park. I have to say, although Levi was an enthusiastic egg hunter, he was not a super talented one! Haha he would walk right past eggs to pick up other ones and luck was not on his side. For some reason he seemed to only find the ones that had crackers in them! Which he liked at first but I felt bad that out of his 18 or so eggs he literally only had two with candy. Soo I may have refilled some of his eggs Saturday night with chocolate for him to be surprised with Easter morning :)
Anyway, Easter was nice. Katie came over and made delicious treats and we had our traditional Easter ham with rolls, salad and creamed corn (sooo good). No deviled eggs this year but I can't say I missed them much.
On Easter we went and walked around the Temple as a family. Levi LOVES the temple. He asks to go there regularly and always gets so excited when we do. He really wants to go inside it and says that Jesus Christ is in there. I want him to keep this enthusiasm and love of the temple forever!
Love my boys! Even with Levi's silly cheesy smile he's started doing!
I LOVE all the spring blossoms! They are just so gorgeous! I wish they coincided with warmer weather though.
Then last week was filled with work, and playdates and normal life stuff. Katie came over on Tuesday night and she, Eric and I watched Your Name which was a super good anime movie. I'm not usually into anime but this one was actually really artistic and cool.
This weekend, Eric and I got all the lumbar, hardware and supplies to build Levi a big boy bed! I am super excited about the plans Eric chose and the stain we picked out. Levi is excited about it too. He asked this morning if he could help his daddy build the bed with screws. Levi loves screws, hammers, screwdrivers, etc. Haha. He always wants to help any time we are building or assembling anything and he regularly plays with his set of toy tools. But yeah, I'm excited for Eric to build Levi his first big boy bed and hopefully we can get it done well before baby is born so Levi doesn't feel like baby girl is stealing his crib! Haha. I'm a little nervous about the transition though. Levi doesn't climb out of his crib so I'm worried about what's going to happen to bedtime and naptime now that he won't be confined for them! But at least he has experience sleeping out of a crib at daycare and he seems to do fine there so that's a good sign.
Saturday evening, Eric and I got to go see Cirque du Soleil! It was my Christmas present to him so we've been looking forward to it for a long time and it did not disappoint! I've never been to Cirque du Soleil before and it was just as cool as I was hoping it would be. We saw their new show: Crystal, which is set on ice. I really liked how they used the ice as like a giant screen to project onto. So for example, as Crystal would skate around, it would draw words or a picture on the ice. The whole show was very artistic and I really liked the story of it. It kind of vaguely reminded me of Alice in Wonderland... but with sweet aerials, acrobatics, and stunts. I would definitely see a show of theirs again.
Then this morning Eric and I toured a new daycare facility that is a contender for childcare this fall. We are having to switch because Kindercare isn't taking any more part time kiddos so they wouldn't have a spot for baby girl when I start up work again at the start of the school year. There were some things I really like about this new place. It's a bit more expensive than Kindercare but they feed the kids a seasonal vegetarian diet which is cool and they spend quite a bit more time outside. I also like how they incorporate a lot of art. And when we visited the baby room, all the littles were happy and content which is a good sign! Haha. We are going to get on the wait list and hopefully a spot opens up for our kids before I start back at work otherwise we will have to look into other options. We requested at least a month's notice before I would start back at work to know whether or not they have spots available. Fingers crossed they will!
So yeah, that's what's going on here! We've got another busy month ahead of us but full of a lot of good things: my birthday, baby shower, big consignment sale I've been looking forward to, hospital tour, etc. And every day Levi brings joy into our lives with his hilarious mannerisms (he's started smacking his lips and saying, "ummm" sometimes before he will answer a question) and mischievousness (he's taken to sneaking past us when we open the fridge and running off helter-skelter with whatever contraband he managed to grab!). I am so grateful I get to be his mom!
We babysat Lincoln one of the nights last week and it was just the best! It was way easier of an evening than normal because Levi had a friend to play with! Makes me think we should have Lincoln over more often! Haha.
My silly boy. He loves to get in the driver's seat and "drive" my car.
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