Easter morning

It was our first Easter morning with TWO littles in the house.  And it did not disappoint.  It was super low key.  We had nowhere to be and no one was coming over.  Just us.  In our jammies.  All day long.

 Sydney's basket was in her crib (no she does not sleep in her crib yet so no safety measures were violated).

 And after a generous hint, little mister (aka Spiderman) found his behind the curtain.

 He was just a little excited...

 Carnage.

 Sydney's first Easter:)

 Looks thrilled, doesn't she??

That's better.

I can now appreciate how much fun it must have been for my parents to wake up on Easter with my brother and I.  I can understand how funny it must have been that I would cry because I couldn't find my basket, like every year.  I can feel how important it is to make these memories.  For the kids, but also for myself.  Now my Easters will not only be filled with my childhood memories of pound puppies and kites and candy in my baskets but also with their childhood memories of hair bows, swimsuits and sidewalk chalk in their baskets.  I always thought it was so fun to be a kid on Easter morning.  I am not 100% sure, but I think it might be more fun to be the adult parent.  To watch the wonder and the excitement and the joy on their faces.

Hope you had a wonderful Easter.  We did:)

Egg Hunt

We took Sully to an Easter Egg hunt last Saturday morning.  It was adorable, as expected:)  Sometimes those things can be horrible in a variety of ways, too crowded or crazy competitive parents.  But this one was great.  It was at Elver Park and in a nice wide open space.  They separated the ages too so as not to have the toddlers and preschoolers hunting with the 8, 9 and 10 year olds.

Here he is.  Waiting surprisingly patiently.

 He was kind of creeped out by the Easter bunny but thought he could at least manage a high five for him (or her, do we know if the Easter bunny is a boy or a girl???).

 Sydney slept through the whole thing.  Little angel;)

And they are off!

I have to give props to the hubs.  He is the only reason that we brought that lovely green basket for his eggs.  Otherwise we would have been using our pockets.  Never even crossed my mind to bring a collection object.

I don't think the kid stopped smiling the whole time.  Therefore, neither did I.

 Super proud of his loot.  You can't tell but he is screaming, "MOMMYMOMMYMOMMY, LOOK!"

 Yeah, he isn't sure which super hero to be each day, so why not be two or three at the same time?

 My favoritest pic of the whole day.  He looks so big and so little at the same time.  Just perfect:)

As we were leaving the park, he was heard saying, "I had fun!"

And then later that day, we got to hang out with this girl.

It was a great day:)

Egg Hunt

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about 

life: it goes on.” 

― Robert Frost

Sometimes life will throw you a curveball, punch you in the gut or just hold you in limboland. It is different for everybody.  But what is the same is that whatever it is that seemingly stops your world, life still rolls on and continues no matter what.  Time marches on, the sun rises and sets and the "right now" will only be here once.

And right now, it is the Easter season.  So off to an Easter egg hunt we went, with our "bucket for eggs."

The egg hunt was held in a huge greenhouse in our town which was fantastic because it is still a bit chilly and sloppy outside.

Sully saw this and said, "That's Raph.  That's not Donnie." Ooo-kay.

And he's off...

These parents were setting up some eggs for their little one when Sully swooped in and picked up one of the eggs.

We told Sully that egg was for that little boy and he so sweetly went over and sent the egg out for the little one to find.  I nearly bawled.

Don't worry, I held it together and we journeyed on...

Boy Wonder.

He kept a safe distance from the bunny.

It was here were the nugget decided he needed to go home and "drink some juice."  So we turned in our eggs and he got a bag with "candies and chocolates."  He was thrilled.  And it felt pretty good to actually pick up my camera again.

Hope you all have a Happy Easter.  Roll on, warriors.