We had a very busy weekend. Drove down to
\n Alan’s parents yesterday so Alan could help his dad home from
\n the hospital. Lex and I and Grammy Lynn dyed Easter eggs. I
\n wasn’t sure what to expect, but Lex loved it! He also was super
\n eager to eat one, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t know what they
\n really were :) I made him wait until Alan got home (so they
\n could dry) and he kept running to the door to check if daddy is
\n here yet. “Oh, I think daddy is here now!” he said about a
\n thousand times. When Alan got back he peeled an egg for Lex,
\n who proceeded to poke at it, look a bit confused, then flat out
\n reject it. That was the reation I was expecting. <\/p>\n
As I said in an earlier post, I made them
\n little Easter baskets. Alan and I went to bed wondering how Lex
\n would react when he saw it. Would he bring it in to our room
\n with a “and you got an Easter basket!” type comment? Or would
\n he sit down and play in his room for awhile (thus allowing us a
\n bit more sleep)? What really happened was he woke up at 4am
\n (very dark) and crawled in bed with us, thus completely missing
\n the basket all together. I got up with Eve at 6:30 and when Lex
\n woke up 1\/2 hr later I said something about a little Easter
\n surprise in their room and we went to find it. Lex liked the
\n little toys and books I put in it. Eve was intrigued by hers,
\n but she really didn’t like the feel of the fake grass. Each
\n time she reached for something the grass would brush her hand
\n and she’d pull back. I ended up taking everything out of the
\n basket for her :) She learned the sign for bunny this week and
\n has been pointing out bunnies everywhere, conveniently we have
\n a lot of bunnies around these days!<\/p>\n
After showers and breakfast I hid the eggs for them. They
\n seemed to enjoy the little Easter egg hunt well enough. When
\n they found them all (I cheated a bit for Eve ;) ) I asked if we
\n should do it again and Lex said no. So that was the end of
\n that. He put them back in the egg carton and back in the
\n fridge. (Here are two movies of their egg hunt. I didn’t want
\n the file to get too big to upload, so I broke it into two
\n parts.)<\/p>\n
[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEXbBGVFOb0]<\/p>\n
[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NRM6TPpaVbE]<\/p>\n
This afternoon we went to visit my grandparents. Grandma
\n is just home from the hospital after having knee surgery so I
\n thought it best to bring small kids and a bunch of little toys
\n over to make her walking even more precarious :) We had fun,
\n though it was a short visit because Lex didn’t take a nap and
\n Eve was ready for her evening nap. Around this house there’s
\n always someone who’s tired! <\/p>\n
Anyway,
\n hope the rest of you had a wonderful, sunny Easter. I’ve been
\n telling the kids that Easter is to celebrate spring and new
\n growth and new life, all the while looking out the window and
\n hoping that someday we’ll actually see spring and new growth!
\n Someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading