Happy Easter, 2008
Wow - what a fun filled day!!
We started the morning with going to church. The boys were dressed in new clothes - beige dress shorts with green shirts and white sweaters with argyle diamonds down the front in beige, green, yellow and blue. C’s age group had a special Sunday School lesson filled with puppets and skits. J enjoyed making a mobile in his class.
After church we came home and the kids played with their Easter baskets until it was time for relatives to arrive to celebrate Easter (and J’s 4th birthday) with lunch and an Easter egg hunt. We had fried chicken and my homemade biscuits for lunch with delicious side items. J’s birthday cake and ice cream was for dessert. I made J’s cake last night. It was a brown runway with white lines and bordered by chocolate morsels. On either side was green for the grass that is near the runways and I had one of J’s toy airplanes landed on the runway. The runway was numbered “04.” J requested vanilla cake, and I happily obliged.
After lunch J got to open his birthday presents - clothes and a police car from Nana and Pop, from Grandma and Grandpa B - a box of cotton toddler gloves in various styles and a stuffed animal from Horton Hears a Who that is wearing blue gloves (how perfect!), and a bouncy ball and toy motorcycle from Aunt E. B and I gave J several DVDs (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Fox and the Hound 2, and a Bob the Builder DVD) and a AWANA Cubbie stuffed bear. B and I had also compiled a bunch of photos of relatives and people that J knows into a book. Each person is wearing some kind of glove (baseball, rubber, golf, dishwashing, etc.) J loved the book, especially the picture of his preschool teacher, Mrs. S. J said, “I love her!” I think we are seeing J’s first crush. How sweet!
While the boys played with their toys, B and Grandpa hid the 80+ Easter eggs in the back yard. C and J had an incredible time finding the eggs. It was hilarious to see one of the boys find an egg and have so much excitement! At one point, J had to put down his basket and put on his rubber gloves. (Smart, it was a chilly day today - in the 40’s.) Once C and J had found all the eggs, they were tired of hunting them. I guess this means that I filled enough/enough were hidden to entertain them.
Yesterday evening the boys got to dye hard boiled eggs. It was not very eventful. I got the towels on the table and the glasses out. The boys watched me put the dye tablets in the glasses and then I measured the vinegar and added it to the tablets. Once the tablets were dissolved, I added the water. We had 9 cups of colors. I boiled a dozen eggs, this meant that each boy had 6 eggs to dye. Like I said, this was very uneventful. It required more set up time than actual dying time. However, since neither boy likes to eat boiled eggs, it worked out well without a lot of waste, but quite a bit of entertainment.
Now I have the kitchen cleaned up and have the boys in bed. B is eating his dinner and I will prepare mine. What a busy day! What a fun day!! Happy Easter! The Lord is Risen!!!