week ending mar 23, 2008:

Week ending March 23, 2008: This was a week of Easter frenzy! We were supposed to do an Easter Egg hunt with Big Daddy last weekend, but it got rained out. Then I took the kids to see the Easter Bunny at the mall on Friday. Chloe was excited to go, and Alex was pretty happy too, but neither of them wanted to sit on the bunny’s lap, so we settled for them sitting next to the bunny for the picture. On Saturday we went to the Easter Egg Hunt at their school (and the associated church). It was huge! I think there might have been a hundred kids, but they divided them up by age groups, so it was managed quite nicely. Alex and Chloe were in the 4-5 year old group, so I worried that, as the younger members in the group, they wouldn’t be able to keep up, but they did great! Each found exactly 15 eggs (if you are doing the math, and there were actually 100 kids and each kid found that many eggs, that would mean that church members filled and hid 1500 eggs!) and each egg was filled with more than one piece of candy, so it was quite a haul.



On Sunday Alex managed to sleep until 7:15 before he came bounding into our bed. Because we suspected that the Easter Bunny had hidden eggs downstairs, we told Alex he could go wake Chloe up so they could start hunting. They were so cute looking for the eggs and helping each other. If Alex found a pink egg, he’d give it to Chloe, if Chloe found a blue egg, she’d give it to Alex. In addition to more candy, the Easter Bunny gave Chloe a kite and Alex a model rocket (or a “bwast-off rocket” as he calls it). We had my family over for lunch which was a nice distraction since the kids were worn out and over-sugared already. After lunch weather.com said the wind was 3mph sound we decided to try the rocket instead of the kite. Grammy and Granddad went to the local high school with us for our first ever launch. Although we’d prepared pretty well for the launch, it still took longer than Alex’s patience lasted for us to set up, so Alex paced in circles, holding the launch button and asking “is it ready yet?” and “how much longer?” Of course our location was carefully chosen to provide the least possible opportunity for the rocket to land on the roof of a building, so guess where the rocket landed? You guessed it, right on the High School! We hoped that the rocket had come down just behind the school and spent a while searching, but finally had to break it to Alex. He cried. And cried. “Mom, I miss my rocket!” I explained that we could get it back when the school opens on Tuesday or he could have a new one, but that didn’t ebb the mourning. At that point we were on our way to dinner with Grammy Barb & Casey’s whole maternal side of the family, so once we got there Alex was finally distracted from his malaise. Grammy Barb had set up a 3rd Easter egg hunt for the kids, and they always love seeing their cousins Blade and Skye, so the Easter fun resumed.