They Grow Up So Fast, Don't They?

Gosh, it's just like overnight Dalton learned to really walk, and he's getting better with communicating. "Ball" and "Kitty cat" have been recently added to his spoken vocab and his signs are "milk" "more" "please" and "eat". So here we are having a conversation while Easton plays outside yet again:

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Today needed to be a "two nap day" for Dalton, and I even tried to get E to take one too. He was a little sleep deprived after our late night last night. He tried, he tried really hard but never fell asleep. So we started our festive cupcakes instead, carrot cake from a box:


I added extra pureed carrots to part of the batch to make some healthier ones to snack on with Dalton too.

When Dalton took his afternoon nap, Easton and I went to work decorating them. I made the cream cheese frosting from scratch and Easton got to lick his very first beater (I never let him have raw egg hence not licking a beater before now, but there's no egg in frosting so it's all good):


We made some green coconut to put on them:




Then placed a festive marshmallow Peep on top of a select few and all of them got a few jellybean "eggs":


The finished product:


Sadly, after covering them all in coconut we discovered Easton does not like coconut. :( Nor Peeps.

He never did get his needed nap so after dinner I told him he was going to take a bath without Dalton tonight (for an early bedtime) and he asked "Because I'm so cranky?" in the same tone he'd ask "What's for dinner?"

That night we took a very big step and got rid of the nighttime diaper for Easton. He'd been doing much better staying dry at night...in fact he'd been dry every night for a week. So we decided to take the plunge and he wore underpants to bed. I'm not sure he's at the point where he'll wake in the night to pee if he has to but if he can stay dry for the 12-12.5 hours he's been sleeping then that's okay too. I'm sure we'll still have accidents in our future, but we're prepared. I'm so proud of him!