Easter

Yeah, so about those regular postings...

Easter was fun. Jim and Mary came for a spur of the moment visit and this was the first time we really "did" Easter with the kids. Jim and I had a great deal of fun hiding the eggs, and it was kind of amusing how long it took the kids to realize there were eggs all over the house the next morning.

When Finn woke up, he immediately saw an egg suspended from a rope right at eye level. (This may sound odd, but I'm not sure that including the information that usually a tire swing hangs there is going to make us look any less weird...) "Me need that egg!" Emile got it down for him and helped him (upon request) open it. He found an earth ball-- one of those grain-sweetened organic hippie chocolates that we tend to favor. He immediately brought it to me (I was still laze-a-bed) and told me the story. Finn speak is hard to transcribe after the fact, but it went something like: "Me find egg on rope with earth ball inside." I don't think he got the Easter Concept... he just thought his world had suddenly and disconcertingly become one in which plastic eggs with candy randomly sprout up.



After our morning egg hunt, during which I think Finn realized there was actually a special occasion involved with this latest miracle, it was off for a fabulous easter brunch at the Hannas. Larkin got to "paint" eggs which is one of her favorite things ever-- and the reason we had an easter party last October. And, really, why should such fun things only happen once a year?

My favorite thing about the party? The sacrificial rice crispy treat lamb!



Why didn't I think of rice crispy treat sculpture? There is definitely going to be some of this in my future. Tearing off its ears was awfully satisfying.