Jack's 1st Easter

Our Easter weekend was pretty low-key and relaxing for us. Saturday we joined our neighbors, the Monroes, at an Easter carnival. It was fun and Jack seemed to enjoy hunting for eggs much more than meeting the Easter bunny. There were some fun carnival games and a petting zoo.(although we did not pet, we just took a look...the goat in there seemed a little shifty if you ask me!) The weather was beautiful and we really enjoyed ourselves!

Our friends and neighbors, the Monroes!

"Hunting" for eggs (although he just wanted to eat the styrofoam and tanbark)!

Poor guy was NOT interested in meeting the Easter bunny. :(

Have to admit...it was a pretty scary bunny! :(




Jack seemed pretty interested in grabbing the chickens, so we sort of stuck closer to the bunnies.

Sunday we had brunch with the some family and had a nice time catching up with everyone. We returned home to find that the Easter bunny had been to our house and left a basket/bucket full of baby friendly goodies and new sandbox toys. Jack seemed to have fun taking all of the contents out (over and over again) and was thoroughly interested with the plastic grass.

Jack's 1st Easter Basket!

The plastic grass got mixed reviews, but the tissue paper was certainly a hit!

Silly times with daddy!

St. Patrick's Day Rewind

Just to finish the catch-up, I wanted to share some of our fun times from St. Patrick's day. Jack and I had a playdate/lunch with Mary and Asher Steeley. Mary and I enjoyed the excuse to dress the boys in their green, have a pint, and strolling around downtown Walnut Creek. As if that wasn't enough of a celebration, Jack and I met Pete for dinner before his baseball draft. It was a really fun (and long) day!

After a long day of celebration the little guy was tuckered!

10 Month Old Hunk

Yes, our little guy turned 10 months old in March and we were so busy having fun that I forgot to post the pictures! We Hovs have been busy this month. We've enjoyed the warm up in the weather that we've had after all that rain. So I think spring fever has motivated us to spend more time outdoors. We've enjoyed a few hikes, picnic dinners, and some get-togethers with friends.

Mobility has made Jack a happy boy and he enjoys taking every opportunity to get into something new. He's gotten really good at crawling and cruising and has been spending time standing on his own for a couple of seconds and falling straight down (over and over again). We started a new playgroup with a couple of other boys who were walking and I think it's given him a new sense of determination to get upright! He's also a babbling machine and we are constantly entertained by his inflection and cornucopia of new sound combinations. :)

Jack has become quite adept at navigating his way around the pack-n-play.

Some of his ninja moves! ;)

Snuggles with mom in the carrier after a walk.

We had a fun time celebrating with the Hatzimichael family at Zoe's 2nd birthday party

We also had some fun times at JD and Lauren's engagement party! It was fun to see some friends and watch the babies play on the floor.

Double trouble red heads!

What a busy month!? And that doesn't even include our St. Patrick's day fun!

Swingin'

We took wee Jack for his first ride on the swings at the beginning of March. The weather was finally nice enough to venture out to the local park and take the swings for a test ride.

He wasn't so sure about it at first, but quickly warmed up to the idea!

Redding Visit

Well, I've already mixed up the order for the posts...but it was pretty close. We took a short trip to Redding to visit with Grandma and Grandpa Jones and Auntie Leah and Matt (this happened before we took the prof pics--oh well). :) Jack had a great time showing off his new tricks and babbling to everyone. (Oh, and yes, that is a Kiss onesie he's wearing!)

Here's Grandma and Jack getting into mischief! :)

We had a great visit and had a fun time when Grandpa took us all out to dinner at Cool Hand Luke's. Jack was our dinner show as he entertained us all by playing with every straw he could get his hands on!

Professional Pics

Well, our intention was to do prof pics at 3, 6, 9, & 12 months but this latest session finally happened the day before he turned 10 months! So I guess that he was technically 9 months for it! What finally motivated us was his top two teeth cutting so we figured we had to make it fast. Again it was another quick evening shoot but we were pretty happy with them.

Oops!

Well, the month has flown by and it seems I've got a little catching up to do! Look out, here come a ton-o-posts!