Easter

I was delaying this post a little in the vain hope that I would actually be able to find the time to download all the really good pictures from my real camera instead of having to rely on my iphone photos all the time.  Unfortunately, that doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon so iphone, here I come.

After a cold, windy and disastrous egg hunt at my office where Cayden cried the whole time and was rendered completely unable to walk because of his fall in the parking lot I was slightly worried about how the rest of our Easter festivities would go.  Thankfully, the fall and subsequent skinned knees were not in any way connected to the egg hunt for him.  With these injuries though, we did make a major leap forward with the way we treat our "owies."  We actually got to use real bandaids instead of having to just tape damp papertowels over them.  I am sure that we will have to increase our bandaid budget now, but I would rather see his hands and legs covered in Cars and Toy Story characters than his previous preference of paper towels and scotch tape.

Anyway, our long weekend of Easter festivities (yes, I got to have Friday off as a state holiday) started off with egg dying on Friday morning with the neighbors.  We waited until Harper was napping (poor second child) so that we could have a slightly more relaxed time with only the two big kids.  The kids did get bored about halfway through forcing the Mommy's to take over and finish the job.  Not surprisingly, it went much faster without the kids.  After the eggs were all dry, Cayden did get into it again when I started putting fun stickers and other decorations on the eggs (they looked like jungle animals...so cool)!

Saturday was consumed by the excitement of the circus and thanks to that extreme excitement both kids went to bed early.  This made life much, much easier for the Woinarowicz Easter bunny because she didn't have to stay awake until the wee hours in order to put the kids' baskets together.  She did, however, have way too much fun shopping for all their goodies and putting them together.  And, it was all worth it seeing their faces on Sunday morning.  Cayden was not impressed by the fact that his dogs seemed to enjoy his egg hunt as much as he did.  He spent half his time looking for the eggs and the other half yelling at Gracie and Molly to get away from them.  Mommy also had to make him complete his hunt rather quickly so as to make sure that our four legged family members didn't find them first.

The Easter excitement continued at Grandma's house with another egg hunt.  Cayden's love of eggs makes his excitement over hunting for them endless, no matter how many times he does it.  I know this kind of thing won't last forever and the simple joy of looking for brightly colored eggs under the furniture and on the window sills will soon be a thing of the past so I am grateful I got to spend so much time this past weekend watching my happy and excited three year old finding Easter eggs.  And, by everyone else being so excited Harper was as well.  She had no real idea what was going on but she sure did seem to enjoy herself as much as everyone else.

Here is our wonderful Easter weekend in review:

Mommy's treat of choice for this weekend was not cupcakes (a big change for me) but instead I made something new but equally tasty.

Cayden's picture is slightly blurring because he is trying to keep his newly found Easter eggs away from the big white nose in the picture.

Harper's bunny ears are her souvenir from the circus.  She


looked too cute in her fuzzy, flashing light ears (hence the two pictures of her in them).