Easter Fun

More fun Easter events!  We attended the pancake breakfast and egg hunt at the Y where we had another chance to see the Easter Bunny.  The egg hunt was held outdoors and it was a cold, rainy day but Laina still had a great time. The kids were told they could collect 8-10 eggs each.  Laina only found 6 before they were all gone. She was slightly disappointed.  Her friend from school had found a small amount of eggs as well and was upset because her older brother & sister had found more than her.  I suggested to Laina that she share one of her eggs with her friend and she agreed to do just that - no questions asked - no hard time. I was so proud of her. For all the challenging days we have dealing with a 5 year old going on 15 year old, along comes a moment like this when I know we're raising a caring, compassionate, sharing, thoughtful little girl.

After that we came home and changed and headed over to a local photographers studio.  He had real bunnies from the shelter there and was doing pictures with the bunnies. It was precious and Laina looked so grown up and sweet in her fancy dress & Easter hat.  Pictures to follow soon when I get them from the photographer.

Then we came home and had fun dying Easter eggs. This year Laina needed little to no help from Momma.  Bittersweet. So nice to sit back and enjoy her experiencing the whole thing without worrying that egg dye will get everywhere, but sad to realize that she's becoming more and more independent with each passing day.

Easter is tomorrow and Laina is very excited for everything. And frankly so am I!

Fun With Bunnies!

A local photographer held an event where you can have your child photographed with real bunnies from the shelter. The first picture was a "test picture" that the photographer snapped that I just loved!

We headed off to take Laina and Cooper's picture with the Easter Bunny before heading down to see Grampy today.  I love this picture so much!!!  Although Laina told us after that "it's just a guy in a bunny suit" she still loved it and gave the bunny a big hug. So sweet.  After that we headed down to Grampy's house.  Auntie Di came to visit too. We brought Grammy Liza some new spring flowers to the cemetery and then all had dinner together. Laina loves visiting with family!

Rapunzel, Rapunzel - let down your golden hair!

My friend Amy made this completely fabulous Rapunzel wig out of yarn for Laina. Now she and Joe are really ready to finalize their play! Oh how I love this wig!

Egg Hunt at the Rec Center

Let the bunny fun begin!  Laina enjoyed her first egg hunt of the Easter season. It had been such bad weather outside that they "hid" the eggs in the gym and basically it was a free for all to go snatch up your eggs - but very fun nonetheless and Laina enjoyed seeing lots of her friends!

Silly April Fools Dinner

Yum! For dinner on April Fools I told Laina we were having snakes and worms...and dirt for dessert.  She was skeptical to say the least! But when she saw the "snakes" which were hot dogs wrapped in crescents, she was pretty happy since that's one of her favs and we save those as a treat.  She was also a fan of the "dirt" since it was pretty much a big cup of chocolate fun!

April Fools Day!

Argh! This is what we woke up to this morning ~ a boat load of snow!  The only good thing is that the schools and courts are closed so we have a family snow day today!  That and the snow should be gone by the weekend due to warmer temps. 

Momma and Poppa Cardinal hung out at our feeders this morning. So beautiful!