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| April 8, 2006 |
Easter is one of those holidays that "jumps around". Meaning, it's never the same day each year. I think it has something to do with the full moon, but I have never quite figured it out. I think it's funny that Easter was early in 2010 (so before Lucas was born) and then late in 2011 which meant that Easter came that year after he had already turned 1 year old. I just think that's kind of funny. :) But anyway, this year Easter happened to fall on my wedding anniversary! Happy 6th anniversary to me and Kevin! What a beautiful day we had for our wedding. So much fun and such great memories. It's funny to look back at our wedding pictures now and think how far we've come -- we bought a house and moved to the suburbs, had a couple of kids, graduated Emily from high school, and have made a life together. Kevin and I have been together for a looong time (longer unmarried than married, so far!), but the last 6 years have absolutely been the best years and I sometimes want to pinch myself, to be sure this is all really happening to me. I really am the luckiest girl in the world!
Emily had the Easter weekend off from work and came home for a couple of nights. These visits home are becoming more of a rare occurrence since she works most weekends so it was a special treat to have her visit. She even babysat for us on Saturday night so Kevin and I could go out for a nice dinner out. The boys were of course thrilled to have her home, and Lucas was so cute when he woke up on Sunday morning. He usually calls for me if he wakes up before I do: "Mama, Mama!" So he did that but I didn't get up right away. His voice is so cute (and I was so tired) so I just laid in bed listening to him for a minute. Well, then Lucas remembered who had put him to bed the night before so he started calling: "Em, Em!" I got a big smile on my face and ran out of bed to him so he didn't wake her up just yet.
I'm starting to recognize a pattern (and I've been in denial about this) with the last 2 years that Lucas seems to have a cold on his birthday. Clearly these are allergies (the part I've been in denial about), but poor baby, he is just miserable for about a week or two in the spring. This year was no different and Lucas was not feeling great on Easter. He was pretty grumpy and we decided to not take any chances on him melting down in church and opted to not take him. Kevin and Zach went though and prayed for us. :) Lucas and I played at home and eventually woke up Emily so she could partake in the Easter egg hunt. She didn't actually collect any eggs, but she did follow along behind Lucas and pick up the eggs that kept falling out of his basket as he toddled around the yard. We spent the rest of the day sorting through the eggs and giving each boy a big tupperware container with the contents of their eggs inside, and then
finally coloring eggs! Zach was excellent at this part. 4 years is a good age for so many things -- he finally has patience and understanding of how things work, and he really got into the egg dying. Lucas was a riot with picking up eggs that were in one color and plopping them into another color. The plopping was accompanied by a nice "crack" sound as the egg hit the bottom of the bowl.
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| Egg dying is fun! |
I'm starting to recognize a pattern (and I've been in denial about this) with the last 2 years that Lucas seems to have a cold on his birthday. Clearly these are allergies (the part I've been in denial about), but poor baby, he is just miserable for about a week or two in the spring. This year was no different and Lucas was not feeling great on Easter. He was pretty grumpy and we decided to not take any chances on him melting down in church and opted to not take him. Kevin and Zach went though and prayed for us. :) Lucas and I played at home and eventually woke up Emily so she could partake in the Easter egg hunt. She didn't actually collect any eggs, but she did follow along behind Lucas and pick up the eggs that kept falling out of his basket as he toddled around the yard. We spent the rest of the day sorting through the eggs and giving each boy a big tupperware container with the contents of their eggs inside, and then finally coloring eggs! Zach was excellent at this part. 4 years is a good age for so many things -- he finally has patience and understanding of how things work, and he really got into the egg dying. Lucas was a riot with picking up eggs that were in one color and plopping them into another color. The plopping was accompanied by a nice "crack" sound as the egg hit the bottom of the bowl.
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