Sloane had Western Day at school. She didn’t wear the hat—she thought it was more fun to bop it around on her head and make it fall in her face.
Later in the day, we hit some balls in the backyard. Blair is proof that anything can be done in a ball gown and heels.
Easter was a little different for us this year. I had to attend the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday night, so Jeremy and the older 2 kids went with me while the 2 little ones stayed home with a babysitter. So we didn’t have the traditional Easter Sunday attire or pictures this year. But we did get this one after Mass on Saturday night.
(It appears Reid is going to give The Donald a run for his money in the next Presidential race.)
So Sunday morning, we were able to gradually get up and do the whole Easter basket and hunt thing. Blair got up first and came to our room. She kept asking to go see her basket, but since no one was up yet, we held her off. Well, that was until Reid got up and ran into the living room on his own. I tried to make him leave the baskets and come into our room so we could lay around a little more, but he wasn’t having it. (Of course. Why did I even bother trying?) So Blair quickly joined him in the living room and they excitedly rummaged through everyone’s baskets.
The Easter Bunny brought Reid some Star Wars legos, Blair a Zhu Zhu pet, Sloane some sidewalk chalk, and Elise a stuffed duck. But I think the thing they were most excited about was that they each got their own pack of bubble gum. It wasn’t even Easter bubble gum—it was just plain ol’ gum! I’m guessing that it was probably a last minute item that the Easter Bunny threw in there to bulk it up. But you’d have thought it was Christmas by their excitement over it. So the Easter Bunny definitely did well with that one. (And as if trying to set a new record, Sloane went through her 15-piece pack in half a day, Blair in one day!) And of course, candy is always the main draw of the day—and I wondered why no one was hungry for the Easter egg pancakes I made??
Yes, those are sprinkles on pancakes. We put sprinkles on everything in this house.
Elise’s first Easter!
We were upset to see that it had started raining overnight and that the Easter Bunny was not able to hide any eggs for us. But imagine our surprise when we saw a bag of eggs sitting on the ground next to Daddy’s side of the bed with a note asking Mom and Dad to hide the eggs instead! So we all went back to the bedroom and waited patiently while Jeremy hid the eggs around the living room. And it actually worked out better—it turns out, Daddy is much more creative in his hiding places than the stinky old Easter Bunny, and the hunt is much more fun. So, we decided that from now on, we may leave a note asking the Easter Bunny to leave a bag of eggs for us and we’ll hide them ourselves. I, for one, LOVE that idea!
Sloane was more interested in eating the candy out of each egg before moving on to find the next one.
Blair, finding any excuse to change outfits for the first of 4 times on any given day, put on her Easter dress to hunt eggs.
We held off as long as we could, but when Elise finally got to 6 months old, we realized we could no longer just keep her on milk all day. But believe me, I tried. I knew once I started the foods, there’s no turning back to the simplicity of just feeding a baby milk.
It appears though that she was quite ready. She loved her cereal, even grabbing the spoon to shove it in there.
“Just give it to me; I’ll do it myself.”
Happy baby.
She started off her big day with a birthday biscuit.
Then she had pink iced donuts at school.
She got to have Show and Share with her baby sister Elise.
We followed it all up with mac and cheese for dinner (her choice) and mint chocolate chip ice cream for dessert (also her choice of birthday dessert).
