Well the weather finally warmed up, just in time for Easter!
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| C "posing" for photos |
This Easter holiday was a bit more fun than last year's, since C is much more active and can start to participate in things. We participated in three Easter themed events, plus our own little family celebration.
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| Finding Eggs |
C's first egg hunt was cute, he didn't really get the concept (he kept trying to put the eggs back), but he stopped so I could take some adorable photos. He also had his first haircut that day, so maybe he was just showing off.
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| waiting for the egg hunt to start |
Our second adventure into Easter activities was another Egg Hunt event, at a mega church in Cranberry Township. There was a lot to do, it was overwhelming. The church was easily the size of school. We took in a puppet show, and then joined the madness for the egg hunt (100 or so kids getting eggs in under 5 mins?!?). We also got our first picture with the Easter Bunny, which was nice, since C didn't have a total meltdown, just looked a little concerned. I think next year might be better spent attending a Good Friday service, since I have no desire to join a mega church 30 mins away (and really that was the point of the event, to recruit new attendees, C just cried/melted down when they asked Who found Jesus today?)
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| Moon Parks' Bunny |
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| Grandma made my cool shirt. |
Our third adventure was to
Moon Parks' Easter Bunny Trail on Saturday. It was a nice but busy event. They had a petting zoo (C's favorite), games, and pictures with the Easter Bunny. Being 1 C wasn't too into the games, but he did enjoy the duck pond (he wanted to pick more ducks, he didn't care about prizes.) Afterwards we enjoyed the nice weather on the playground and swinging.
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| C's Dinosaur attacking his eggs. |
We went home that afternoon to nap, eat lunch, and talk a walk (after so many cold days, you've got to enjoy the sunny ones!) Afterwards we colored eggs, which is one of my favorite Easter activities, mostly because I like egg salad, and its a really good excuse to make it. This was C's first time, so we kept it simple. Three colors to pick from, 4 eggs, a wax crayon, and stickers. The stickers proved to be too much, as he would only put them on his shirt. Although it was really cute to hear him yell "ball" each time he saw one of the sport themed stickers (when your kid mostly makes animal noises, you're really happy for any real words.)
Yesterday we were up early, we went to the 7:45am church service, since my concern was that if we were late to later services we might have to stand. Pregnant women do not like to stand for hours at a time, and I'm in the did she put on 10lbs or is she pregnant stage of pregnancy, meaning slim chances of anyone offering the pregnant lady a seat, because who wants to offend. When we got home, we opened Easter baskets, and the Easter Bunny did well this year! He left C two pieces of
Sarris Chocolate (a local favorite), and a
Playmobil 1-2-3 Noah's Ark. The Ark was big hit, although C struggled to get all the animals on the boat (this being said he tried to put them all the same part of the boat.) I'm sure Noah had similar struggles. After breakfast I wanted to do an egg hunt (I filled the eggs with finger puppets and tiny stuff animals from
IKEA) outside, but typical Pittsburgh, it was raining. So we had an indoor hunt in the living room and dinning room. Which seemed to work out well, C really has a handle on the egg hunting now (and finally realized there are things in the egg.) After the Egg Hunt we read a story about Noah's Ark and some Easter related books, and then C had nap time while M and I had sorta relax, but clean the house, and work on Easter dinner time. Typically for Easter we just do dinner for the 3 of us, with the idea that we weren't picking a family to celebrate the holiday with, plus we received fine china as a wedding gift, so we need an excuse to use it once a year. We always open up dinner to any friends and family who might be alone for the holiday, this year my youngest sister E joined us since most of my family was out of town. For some reason I like to take pictures of table settings each year, maybe it makes me feel like my home isThis seems
Better Homes & Gardens (minus the mass amount of toys in the background). This year's dinner included salad, roasted potatoes,
Mark Bittman's Glazed Carrots,
Easter Egg Bread, and
Williams-Sonoma's Goat Cheese Stuffed Chicken. (Links are to recipes or cookbooks) I prefer to do lamb, but with only 3.5 half servings needed, lamb usually comes in such large quantities so I opted for something fancy but smaller portioned. For dessert I made
Gordon Ramsay's Hot Chocolate Fondant, which didn't come out as perfectly as his, but was still delicious. After dinner we played Trouble and then E went home. Then C and I sorta passed out while watching Winnie-The-Pooh while M cleaned dishes.
Overall a pretty nice Easter.
Yesterday we were up early, we went to the 7:45am church service, since my concern was that if we were late to later services we might have to stand. Pregnant women do not like to stand for hours at a time, and I'm in the did she put on 10lbs or is she pregnant stage of pregnancy, meaning slim chances of anyone offering the pregnant lady a seat, because who wants to offend. When we got home, we opened Easter baskets, and the Easter Bunny did well this year! He left C two pieces of Sarris Chocolate (a local favorite), and a Playmobil 1-2-3 Noah's Ark. The Ark was big hit, although C struggled to get all the animals on the boat (this being said he tried to put them all the same part of the boat.) I'm sure Noah had similar struggles. After breakfast I wanted to do an egg hunt (I filled the eggs with finger puppets and tiny stuff animals from IKEA) outside, but typical Pittsburgh, it was raining. So we had an indoor hunt in the living room and dinning room. Which seemed to work out well, C really has a handle on the egg hunting now (and finally realized there are things in the egg.) After the Egg Hunt we read a story about Noah's Ark and some Easter related books, and then C had nap time while M and I had sorta relax, but clean the house, and work on Easter dinner time. Typically for Easter we just do dinner for the 3 of us, with the idea that we weren't picking a family to celebrate the holiday with, plus we received fine china as a wedding gift, so we need an excuse to use it once a year. We always open up dinner to any friends and family who might be alone for the holiday, this year my youngest sister E joined us since most of my family was out of town. For some reason I like to take pictures of table settings each year, maybe it makes me feel like my home isThis seems Better Homes & Gardens (minus the mass amount of toys in the background). This year's dinner included salad, roasted potatoes, Mark Bittman's Glazed Carrots, Easter Egg Bread, and Williams-Sonoma's Goat Cheese Stuffed Chicken. (Links are to recipes or cookbooks) I prefer to do lamb, but with only 3.5 half servings needed, lamb usually comes in such large quantities so I opted for something fancy but smaller portioned. For dessert I made Gordon Ramsay's Hot Chocolate Fondant, which didn't come out as perfectly as his, but was still delicious. After dinner we played Trouble and then E went home. Then C and I sorta passed out while watching Winnie-The-Pooh while M cleaned dishes.
Overall a pretty nice Easter.
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