Easter!

Again - behind...

As with every other holiday - Easter is choc full o' arts & crafts..

Starting off with the yarn/cornstarch/cookie cutter crafts. These would have been great except for the fact that boy's little crafts were SO gooey - they got moldy before they dried. Live & Learn I 'spose.

backed up by a dinner of Easter Egg Meatloafs


aaaaaand not to be outdone -

EASTER EGGS!

and the final product..... (drumroll)

the spread left for the Easter Bunny.

and the spread left by the Easter Bunny

another Live & Learn...

If I ask the girl to run into the other room & find her shoes - it is a task that never takes less than 10 minutes. Not because she is lazy. Not because she finds a toy & gets distracted. Not because she drags her feet & waits for us to get them for her.

Because I have raised 2 of the absolute worst Look arounder's.

I now know that 10 eggs & 2 baskets are FAR MORE than these kids can handle on such an exciting morning. The 35+ eggs & 2 baskets took well into an hour for them to find.

Boy coming downstairs...

Now the girl

Once the baskets were finally found - they were MORE than please with all the new loot.

And they were just as happy to find all the eggs

Poppy stopped by for the sunday donut routine - and even he was rolling his eyes at the weak hunting skills.

new shades

Luckily (and thankfully) my kids have seen Charlotte's Web enough times to quote it.. and didn't really object when the day after Easter - they eggs got tossed. I explained to them that a lot of the eggs got cracks in them when we were coloring them - namely, the eggs Luke dropped. Then I explained how they will get rotten very quickly with the broken shells.

To which they informed me "A ROTTEN EGG IS A REGULAR STINK BOMB!"

Thank you barnyard goose!

Dan & I both wondered about the choice of first-bite-location on the big choco-bunnies.

Both tail & ears were the first to go.

and with choco-bunnies - comes unused energy - which in turn brings a carpeting of easter grass. *sigh*

First Fair of the season!!!

Seems I'm starting every post with "I'M SO FAR BEHIND ON EVERYTHING!"

So from now on, let's just consider that a given - and I'll stop saying it.

First fair of the year and the kids were SO HAPPY!!!

First ride was the merry go round, which I had to accompany them, which means no pictures...

It was all going so smoothly! Everyone was excited. Boy was bouncing off the horses, so I grabbed him to put him up on one -and left girl to wait the 4 seconds.

In this time - the very nice lady that was running the ride walked over to her and helped her onto the horse she had picked out, gave her a big huge smile, and said "You ok honey?"

Would have been fine - but seeing as how the woman didn't have a tooth in her mouth -

it scared the crap out of the girl - and with that, she was stuck on me like Elmers Glue for the next hour.

SO! Not only did we have the first-fair-of-the-year, we had our first run-in-with-a-terrifying-carni-of-the-year.

After the carni-terror, she really wasn't all that willing to go on rides.

Boy on the other hand - couldn't get on them fast enough!

Thumbs up - Tongue out

solo rider..

no really- there wasn't another soul on the ride

...as girl patiently waited...

Seeing boy have fun was just more than she could stand -

I'm just happy it was short lived - and she started to have some fun.

we had a little bit of terror last year..

boy realized half-way thru a ride that the carni-guy never measured him

?

and screamed like a lunatic until they stopped the ride so he could measure himself

whatever

This year - we MADE SURE to have extensive measuring BEFORE the ride started.

Boy supervised Girl's measurements

and a little double trouble

carni-girl trying to explain the tea-cups

and the many faces of girl on the ferris wheel

and all of them are happy