Baby Shower and Easter

When Cason was a few months old, I became determined to find some other moms my age with babies Cason's age that we could hang out with. I joined an online meetup group and went to one activity. I met Lauren and Tanner, who is one month younger than Cason. She introduced us to Katie and Harrison, who is about 6 weeks younger than Cason. The three of us hung out and got together a few times over the next few months. Over that first winter when we were all desperate to get out of the house, we started doing all the free trial classes at places like The Little Gym and My Gym. That is where we met Bailey and Collin. Bailey also introduced us to Nikki and Christian. The five of us and our little ones try to get together a couple of times a month. We take turns hosting play dates at our houses, go to the park, and find local places geared toward toddlers to visit.

These wonderful friends of mine offered to host a baby shower for me, more like a sprinkle since we didn't need much. I was so touched that they wanted to do that for us. So the four of them planned and hosted my shower and I also invited some friends from church, my neighbor, and a friend I used to work with. They filled in all of the gaps of little things we needed and we had a fun morning playing games, chatting, and of course eating food and yummy cake!

I just realized I should probably explain that Bailey is holding my neighbor, Jenny's baby boy Jax. He is 4 months old. Collin is much bigger:)

Thank you Lauren, Bailey, Katie, and Nikki!!!

These pictures from Easter are pretty crappy because it was dark and rainy outside and I was forced to use the flash. But I just realized that this is the first holiday in Cason's 21 months that I actually remembered to take a picture of him! So I guess it's progress.

We were going to have an Easter egg hunt for Cason but it rained most of Easter. We thought about doing it the next day but never got around to it. Oh well, he did go to two egg hunts in the previous week so he didn't really miss out on any fun. I did have some goodies for him. A plastic set of golf clubs, a watering can to play with outside this summer, and his basket was actually a sand bucket. I didn't want to spend money on an Easter basket that we would either have to throw away or find somewhere to store for a whole year. So I thought this sand bucket would be perfect and it would multitask for us. Yes, I'm cheap. Inside his eggs were stickers, punch balloons, fruit snacks, and teddy grahams, he loved them.