Easter Preamble

My kids are at such great ages. We had so much fun celebrating Easter this year and ample opportunities to do so!

Norah picked up on the Easter Bunny (School? TV? Friends?) and was talking about him/her nonstop soon after St. Patty’s day. She was drawing pictures for the Easter Bunny and thinking of things she needed to tell him and asking to meet the Easter Bunny etc etc. I was getting worried we were going to have to do the Shopping Mall thing to arrange a meeting but fortunately Norah’s friend David from preschool invited her to his neighborhood Easter Egg hunt in University Park and guess who was there? Celebrity sighting!! It was a cold rainy day but even so this was not a party to miss! There was face painting, someone making balloon animals, bouncy houses, and breakfast. University Park is to Dallas as Eagleton is to Pawnee. David’s parents invited us to their 4th of July celebration – I can’t wait.We also dyed eggs twice. Once at our house and again at Hope’s house. Hope’s mom made her own natural egg dyes. I’ve always wanted to try this but it seemed like a lot of work so it was nice to have the best of both worlds and have someone else do all the work for me.I didn’t take any pictures of the kids but I did get one of the good looking eggs Later that day (Good Friday) we went to another Easter hunt with the moms from church. I was surprised how into it Alice was (she slept through the other egg hung so this was her first). I don’t remember Norah being so excited about egg hunts but then again in Ithaca we just had to hide eggs in someone’s apt because it was so cold. Nicolasa  Norah and Hope were serious egg hunters so it was tough getting pictures of them. Alice loves slides!