Ode To Easter
Nah. Actually, my poem composing skills aren't exactly what you would call "good". So this is more of a What We Did On Our Easter Weekend pictorial of sorts.
The weekend began on Friday with SueSue and Amy coming and getting the older two kids for a lunch at our favorite family Mexican restaurant and for a playdate in the park! No pictures of it, since Jmk and I were home with Lollypop. But based on the sand in their shoes, the smiles on their faces, and the pinkness in their cheeks, there was much fun had by the bigger Zoo Monkeys.
Saturday began with cousin Audrey coming over in the morning for some egg-dying activities.
Poodle - all about the color variety.
Tooter - Blue. Green. Done. Next.
Audrey - Pink pink and more pink, and they were fab. u. lous.
Lollypop was MUCH in love with Audrey's face. LP got all tickled every time she looked at her. Loved it!
We had some play time and lunch time and quiet time and nap time and then it was time for the fearless egg-hunters to commence their Easter Deeds. MooMoo, GaGa, and PopPop hid the multitude of eggs whilst the kiddies stayed in one of the bedrooms. Then the hunt was on!
There were many "I found one!" squeals from all over the soggy yard. (It rained the night before). But, at least it wasn't freezing cold!
After they found allllll the eggs, MooMoo said "Y'all want to do it again?" She might as well have said "Y'all want to continue to breathe and use your ears to hear?" HA! So we repeated the fun and frivolity.
Then, after many beautifully colored eggs had been found, once and twice, it was time for ICE CREAM. Yummo!
The wee'est one was napping throughout the Big Egg Hunt. But as all good children do, she woke up in time for ice cream.
Alas, Lollypop was teased mercilessly by her Daddy with a Drumstick. So not right, Daddy, so not right.
After much ice cream was consumed, the grandparents and Robert and Audrey slowly trickled home, and we let our brood work off the sugar high in the backyard.
Sunday morning included our trying to get the ubiquitous Family Shot That Puts Too Much Pressure On Everyone. Thank you Mommy.
I wasn't able to get pre-Easter shots of the kids in their clothes like I did last year. So, we'll do that hopefully soon now that the azaleas are finally blooming.
You know what, though - this picture may not be "perfect", but it's my family. And I sure do love looking at it!
And we love looking at The Baby. The Baby is so wonderful! :-)
There were "better" pictures of the kids from that morning. But I know in this one that they were all laughing at Daddy. He was doing the Easter Morning Crazy Daddy Dance in order to get them to all smile at the same time. It's an intricate dance. Takes much talent. Jmk is good at it.
And I can totally see Poodle's missing tooth, Tooter's gray tooth from where he banged into some stationary object being the boy that he is, and my Lollypop's precious sparkly-eyed smile.
Here we see the children in the moment just before the Easter Morning Crazy Daddy Dance had begun. You can see Poodle knows it's coming. This isn't her first rodeo.
We tried for another family shot when we got to the Club after church. But, you know, these family shots... they're just so forced on Easter. I do them because I really want them. But then I know they stress everyone out. But then we're all glad to have them when we look back on them. Rock and a hard place, and all that.
All in all, a lovely Easter weekend. It felt a little busy this year, for some reason. And I can't put my finger on exactly what that feeling came from. But, it was definitely nice to see everyone and watch the kids play together. Easter baskets made for much excitement Sunday morning and the kids enjoyed the Easter bunny and that clown fellow at the Club during lunch.
And from our sweet-potato faced littlest one - thank you for getting to the end of this REEE-ally long post! You must either be related to us, or you have a lot of patience in your heart! SMOOCHES to YOU!!!
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