We had a very busy weekend. Drove down to
Alan’s parents yesterday so Alan could help his dad home from
the hospital. Lex and I and Grammy Lynn dyed Easter eggs. I
wasn’t sure what to expect, but Lex loved it! He also was super
eager to eat one, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t know what they
really were :) I made him wait until Alan got home (so they
could dry) and he kept running to the door to check if daddy is
here yet. “Oh, I think daddy is here now!” he said about a
thousand times. When Alan got back he peeled an egg for Lex,
who proceeded to poke at it, look a bit confused, then flat out
reject it. That was the reation I was expecting.

As I said in an earlier post, I made them
little Easter baskets. Alan and I went to bed wondering how Lex
would react when he saw it. Would he bring it in to our room
with a “and you got an Easter basket!” type comment? Or would
he sit down and play in his room for awhile (thus allowing us a
bit more sleep)? What really happened was he woke up at 4am
(very dark) and crawled in bed with us, thus completely missing
the basket all together. I got up with Eve at 6:30 and when Lex
woke up 1/2 hr later I said something about a little Easter
surprise in their room and we went to find it. Lex liked the
little toys and books I put in it. Eve was intrigued by hers,
but she really didn’t like the feel of the fake grass. Each
time she reached for something the grass would brush her hand
and she’d pull back. I ended up taking everything out of the
basket for her :) She learned the sign for bunny this week and
has been pointing out bunnies everywhere, conveniently we have
a lot of bunnies around these days!

After showers and breakfast I hid the eggs for them. They
seemed to enjoy the little Easter egg hunt well enough. When
they found them all (I cheated a bit for Eve ;) ) I asked if we
should do it again and Lex said no. So that was the end of
that. He put them back in the egg carton and back in the
fridge. (Here are two movies of their egg hunt. I didn’t want
the file to get too big to upload, so I broke it into two
parts.)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEXbBGVFOb0]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRM6TPpaVbE]

This afternoon we went to visit my grandparents. Grandma
is just home from the hospital after having knee surgery so I
thought it best to bring small kids and a bunch of little toys
over to make her walking even more precarious :) We had fun,
though it was a short visit because Lex didn’t take a nap and
Eve was ready for her evening nap. Around this house there’s
always someone who’s tired!

Anyway,
hope the rest of you had a wonderful, sunny Easter. I’ve been
telling the kids that Easter is to celebrate spring and new
growth and new life, all the while looking out the window and
hoping that someday we’ll actually see spring and new growth!
Someday.