Hoppy Easter!

We can never resist a good pun.

We had a lovely Easter, Uncle Dustin and Auntie Jess were here (T's brother and his looooong time girlfriend..begging the question: at what point can we propose to her so she can just be our sister-in-law already?!) and it was so nice to have family for the holiday.

On Friday there was the annual egg hunt at PDI. We've come to anticipate this event with equal parts excitement and dread; its a fun family event, but the bigger kids (sometimes as old as 8 and 9) tend to completely disregard the smaller kids, sometimes even stealing eggs right out from under their noses or if they tots simply aren't quick enough. Its very frustrating as a parent to watch your kids get pushed around and its also frustrating that the parents of the older kids don't intervene or even notice the problem. But we've learned that for now (at least) if we don't react then B doesn't even notice. She got enough eggs to share with C and she thought it was loads of fun.


On Sunday we had raspberry scones and checked out the goods from the Easter Bunny. B got a Hello, Kitty! book about foreign places and languages, Japanese cherry candies (he must have known we were just in Japantown, or else its just a coincidence), a snack box, a magnetic Hello, Kitty! dress-up set, and some finger puppets. C got a wooden car, some car socks, a book about Little Nut Brown Hare, chocolate covered sunflower seeds and a koosh ball (remember those?). Then B ran around finding eggs that Mr. Bunny hid all over the living room, filled with jelly bellies.


Instead of coloring hard boiled eggs we decorated sugar cookies. None of us really like to eat hard boiled eggs, so that just seemed like a waste. When the kids are older, if they want, we may try our hands at emptying the raw egg out of the shells... but for now, everyone was happy with the sugar cookies.


So, in sum, we very much enjoyed our Easter and we sincerely hope everyone else did as well.