Happy Easter!!!

Yesterday we took Kaitlyn Joy to see Hop.  I thought she wasn't enjoying the movie, but later realized she was tired and acted distracted because she was trying to stay awake.  As we are leaving she's telling us how it was a great movie.  Now fast forward to this morning.  I was going to get up early to hide the eggs, but ended up going out at 7:15 this morning.  Surprisingly Kj wasn't up yet.  A little while after I hid the eggs she came running into our room saying there are two eggs hiding in the backyard and what their color was.  She was beside herself excited that the Easter Bunny came.  I want to put in a little disclaimer, we do not teach Kj that the Easter Bunny is real.  We've talked a lot lately about how Easter isn't about eggs, bunnies, and candy, but Jesus dying on a cross for our sins and rising again on the third day.  Also, I hid the eggs early so she wouldn't have to wait on me to hide them; not so she would think the EB put them there.  After spotting the eggs and telling us about them I quickly got her dressed.  Expecting her to see her Easter basket on the coffee table we went her downstairs for her sandals.  I was surprised when she bypassed the coffee table and ran to the backdoor to look for more eggs.  I reminded her to go get shoes then had Neal stick her basket out the backdoor.  When we opened the door she saw her basket.  I'm not big on giving her candy so she didn't have a big chocolate bunny waiting in her basket.  I was actually going to wrap everything in pink paper and let her find everything with the eggs, cut at the last minute I put it all in her basket.  To skip the bulk of the candy I put flower pots and seeds in the basket as well as a little toy chick, a Slinky, Silly Putty, the movie Cats And Dogs.  She also got Fruit Roll-Ups, a couple different kinds of 100 calorie treats and Ring Pops.

We had to make her empty her basket before hunting for eggs.  The girl wanted to get the eggs BAD.  Do only children run to get the eggs as quickly as they can or is that a learned trait by hunting with other kids?  They run!  In the end she really enjoyed herself.  With us using the bigger eggs we are able to put small toys in them.  I learned with bent legs you can fit a Mini Lalaloopsy into the eggs.  Kj now has the complete collection.

 

Another Year Has Passed

I'm 33. *sigh* As kids Jeremy and I were right when we said mom and dad were old at our current ages. And we'll still be old when we're our parents ages. Why must time march on so fast?!!!

So yesterday I turned a whooping 33. Maybe I should start by saying I hate odd numbers. I really do. It's a quirk I have. So here I am turning 33, three months and three days after Kaitlyn Joy turned three. Ugh! Maybe it's not that she is in her terrible threes it's the number three. Odd numbers really irk me. I remember saying something like this to the ladies on a discussion board when Kaitlyn Joy turned three months, three days before I turned 30. Stupid threes. And before you ask I don't like five, seven and nine either. Like I said, I don't like odd numbers. Maybe I'll be better at 40? Yikes!

Yesterday we went to an Easter Egg hunt at a Rainbow Play Sets "show room". Kaitlyn Joy had a lot of fun. She didn't get many eggs, but hopefully the little she got greased her gears for next weekend when she hunts while camping. She kept wanting to look for more. There were so many little kids looking for eggs and parents who wanted to make sure their kid got so me eggs. By the time Kaitlyn Joy picked some up from one little patch I looked up and parents and children were everywhere. They were probably all gone in less then a minute. They were giving away some awesome prizes too. The big one was a Rainbow Play Set. That would have been nice to get. Another prize was a tree from a nursery that they would plant for you. We did win a basketball clinic, but I'm trying to see if someone with an older child would like it.

So, I'm laying here in bed typing on a laptop and just got joined by Neal and Kaitlyn Joy. I asked Kaitlyn what she wants to do today and she said, "go camping and Disney World." We are going camping next weekend and Disney World the first week of May. She talks about both a lot. And now they are reading Curious George. =)