week ending april 8, 2007:

Week ending April 8, 2007: Happy Easter! The kids are enjoying themselves immeasurably. Chloe had trouble getting to sleep last night and I told her that when she woke up and it was light that she’d know it was Easter. Well, sunrise is at 6:40, but there were a few rays of light at 6:27 when Chloe woke us up. After Alex woke up and we were all headed downstairs Daddy said, “I think the Easter Bunny was here, lets go see what he brought for us!”. Chloe said “SHE! The Easter Bunny is a girl.” I swear I didn’t put that idea in her head, she decided on her own that the Easter Bunny and God are both female. The Easter Bunny brought candy, stickers, books, and new underpants, so the kids have been entertaining themselves all morning with their goodies. They colored in their books, stuck stickers all over their Daddy, and insisted that I run a load of laundry so their new underpants would be clean and they could try them. The pictures of them in their Easter finery are at this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/constance.phelps/EasterDressUp Earlier in the week we went to the gardens at one of the Dupont estates called Winterthur. At the gardens they had a section called the Enchanted Woods that had a stepping stones, a faerie cottage, a troll bridge, and a huge “bird nest” all for kids. The kids had a wonderful time and Chloe told me that the Enchanted Woods were her “fun part” of the day. The pictures are at this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/constance.phelps/Winterthur We took Alex to the pediatrician about his month long cough and we have a new arsenal of medicine to fight everything from sinus problems, to asthma, to allergies. The kids went to the mall for “kids club” and got free face painting and danced to a live band. Chloe is still interested in rhymes and she asked me what rhymes with Easter and I said “keister”. We had to have an extended discussion about what a “keister” is. On Saturday we went to an Easter Egg Hunt in the snow! We only got a dusting, but it had been cold enough for long enough that the snow didn’t melt when it hit the ground.