Easter with Great Grandma!

We spent Easter in Walla Walla with Great Grandma.  It was very special for us to introduce Graham to Great Grandma and to spend  two days at her magical house with the rest of the Johnson/Whitfield clan.  Watching the kids play and celebrate this fun holiday together was just so much fun.   Great Grandma's house is a magical place to explore and I think the kiddos all had a really great time.  For us, the best part was just sitting around enjoying a meal together with the whole family. So very much to be thankful for.

 

The kids had so much fun at Great Grandma's house.  It really was just a great family gathering where the kids could play and the adults could sit back and marvel at how wonderful it was to have 4 generations together for such a special weekend.

I love this sweet picture of the four kids.

 

Grady finally has enough of an attention span to watch a movie on the road for at least an hour or so.  This time it was Finding Nemo and we let him use headphones.  He was sitting in the backseat with a constant running commentary of what was going on  . . . "oh no, he touched the boat" . . . . "what is that mean girl at the dentist doing?", . . "Do you see those turtles mommy, do you see them?"

The first hotel stay with both boys was, um, interesting.  Grady was thrown off at first and kept asking about the hotel, "is this Walla Walla?"  and telling us, "I just want to sleep at home."  Even by the end of the trip I don't think he quite grasped that the hotel was not  actually Walla Walla but was rather in the city of Walla Walla.   Grady was low on sleep and high on sugar for the majority of the trip which made for some interesting breakfasts in the hotel lobby.  Thank goodness we had one easy child ;)

At this point Grady was still in a pack and play, but Papa offered to take him to his bead each night.  They watched YouTube videos of astronauts and hippos and spent the night sleeping in a bed!  I have slept with Grady before while trying to get him used to a bed and he insists on having at least 5 contact points with your body at all times to make sure you don't slip out of bed while he is asleep.  It is not easy.  I am sure Papa was tired, but he seemed to treasure the fact that he got to have a special sleepover with Grady boy.  In other good news, this little trip catapulted Grady into three weeks of sleeping in his own bed successfully.  We'd been telling him that after Easter his crib was going away.  We took his crib down Easter Sunday and he has been great in his bed ever since!  So proud of him for this big new accomplishment!  

 While in Walla Wall, we went for a walk around the beautiful Whitman campus.  I'd forgotten how gorgeous Whitman is, especially in the spring.

Easter itself was pretty perfect.  The Easter bunny brought Grady some new garden gloves and tools.  He was ecstatic.  It was better than Christmas, serioulsy.  In years past Grady has never made it past a couple of eggs in the egg hunt due to the unshakable distraction of the candy inside.  This year, however, Grady didn't even make it out of the starting gates for the egg hunt.  He was too distracted by his cool new garden tools and wanted to get right to work.  He had zero interest in hunting for eggs even when I tried to prod him away.  It was adorable and hysterical.  I love this little boy!

 

 

 These boys are pretty much the cutest thing ever these days, enjoying conversations about cars like two old friends.

This guy was cute as ever in his Easter getup.  He was his normal happy, very easy going self and loved his cuddle time with Great Grandma.  So much fun to celebrate those first holidays with the newest member of our family!

 We even managed a picture of all 4 of us!   It is a little squinty, but I am thrilled that we have a picture of the four of us looking in the general vicinity of a camera.  Thanks Uncle Doug!

 The trip home was filled with beautiful spring countryside views, kids who slept three plus hours, Grady's new obsession with barbecue pringles, and lots of smiles remembering a wonderful Easter holiday.