Easter

We headed to Seaside to celebrate Easter weekend with Poppa, Grandma Bec, Aunt Meg, Jasper and cousins Jaley and Genna. Thankfully the drive over to Seaside on Saturday morning was pretty uneventful, although about 20 minutes before we got into town Merrick started getting pretty antsy. When we pulled up to the Condo and I went to hand off Merrick to Poppa, I soon realized why he was being so antsy. He said to me as I pulled him out of his car seat "I pee pee" and sure enough, he had. The poor thing had leaked through his diaper. Poppa took him to get cleaned up and Travis and I went to park and unload the car. For those of you who have kids, you know that whether you are going for one night or two weeks, you still have to pack the same amount of stuff, which is a lot! We were getting settled in and had been there about 20 minutes and all of a sudden the fire alarm starts going off. So we stick our heads out the door to see if anyone else is leaving, no one really was so we thought we'd just wait it out, then we looked again and people were starting to be evacuated. So we got our coats and shoes and headed outside. Thankfully we were blessed with a nice day, so we didn't have to stand outside in the rain. We decided that since we were outside that we should take a walk on the beach. Merrick loves being outside, so it wasn't hard to convince him. We played on the beach for a while and then headed upstairs for lunch and a nap.

Unfortuately Merrick decided that he didn't want to take a long nap, so just as mom was getting to sleep, he woke up. We decided to head back out to the beach and play with our new sand toys. Well... that didn't last very long. I knew as soon as Merrick was telling us he wanted to go inside that he had not slept long enough.

So we headed back inside and Merrick played with Poppa while Mama and Dada went to check out the deals at the outlet mall. While shopping we called to check in with Poppa and learned that Merrick was laying on the window sill saying "night night" so we gave Poppa the okay to put him down for another nap. When we got back from shopping we all decided to go for a swim. Merrick was not really sure of the little wading pool, but loved being in the big pool with Mama and Dada. He even checked out the hot tub with all of us.

Sunday morning we got a disappointing call from Aunt Meg. Jasper wasn't feeling well, so they weren't going to be able to come over and join us for Easter Dinner. We were all bummed about not getting to spend the day with them. I think we were also a little bummed about the rain. Us Oregonians get tricked so easily by nice weather! We had a very quiet Easter dinner and after checking out Merrick's Easter basket, we headed back home.