Easter

Well Easter has come and gone at our house - and apparently really gone for Weston. Tonight he wagged his finger at John and said "tell me the truth dad"... So daddy did - and the Easter bunny myth is just that for Weston. But hopefully he'll be good and not spoil it for Tyler or Elayna in the next few years.

All week we've been getting "have you seen the Easter Bunny", "Is the Easter Bunny a bunny or a human" "big or small", how does the Easter bunny do that. ... And he saw the stash of treats in the locked room (ya still wondering how that happened).





But all is well. We dyed easter eggs. Elayna tried to drink the dye then eat the eggs, with the shells. She wasn't too happy about the whole affair and decided she would be happier in bed. She was and I think I've decided I don't care for this tradition much. But the boys did like being able to make a mess. We still haven't eaten the eggs and we forgot to hide them for the hunt, so I hope we don't get sick of egg salad sandwhiches this week!





Saturday we spent all day doing yard work, which the boys thought was so the Easter bunny would like our house -not so.... Sunday we slept in, had a nice breakfast (Ice cream drinks/shakes for the kids and Eggs Nicole (my favorite) for John and I). Then we got dressed in something other than pajamas and John hid the plastic eggs outside and left the baskets on the doorstep - pretending the Easter Bunny had done that.

The kids then went in search of the eggs. Weston loved finding as many eggs as he could. Tyler would open each egg to see what was inside before moving on. And Elayna wasn't sure about it all. John would show her some eggs, but then she would just stand there and watch - waiting for someone else to put it in her basket. I think she just liked being outside and carrying two purses with stuff in them!







After all the eggs were found we went inside to even things up (Weston didn't like that idea, but Tyler did). And once the eggs were distributed fairly the wrappings started to fly. But unlike most kids, my kids don't really like sugar treats. Don't misunderstand. They still care very deeply about getting and having treats and desserts, they just usually don't finish them.

Weston and Tyler had to take inventory of everything they had, Tyler sampled during that. Elayna just sort of took whatever she wanted, but each piece of candy she put in her mouth would end up on the carpet. Robbin eggs - she would suck of the coloring and then spit out the rest. You can see her look of 'ewe' with the peeps (I understand that). But I missed the look as she spat out the snickers bar... too bad for a slow camera hand! I just don't understand how she can be my child and not like chocolate!?

She finally had some nerds, which she tollerated for a few tries, then started pelting daddy with the rest (at least she tried to pelt daddy, then just ended up all over the floor). Tyler was concerened she might encroach on his territory and Weston was still in awe over how sneaky the Easter Bunny was.




We had lunch and got ready for church. After church the boys were hungry and wired and after muscling through dinner they made a fairly good headway on their treat stash.

Ahhh - I'm glad the candy rush will soon be over! Next year I'll have to think of what to get that Elayna will actually eat - as she didn't finish a single piece of candy today... and something that the boys will still think is fun to have. - oh the quandary!