We had a pretty spectacular Easter weekend this year. The kids were off school on Thursday and Friday, so Jonathan took off work one day I took off the next. On Friday, we kicked off the weekend with a very full day. First, peanut butter spoons for breakfast.
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| Protein! |
Next, some time playing at Kidzu, which was surprisingly not overcrowded. Win!
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| Ready for some art time at Kidzu |
We met Jonathan for lunch at a new (to us) place: Gypsy's Shiny Diner. It was alright, but we were spoiled growing up with Jimmy's and Walt's, so it takes something special to live up to our diner expectations.
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| But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo. Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue? |
With our bellies full of milkshakes, we met up a little gaggle of friends at North Cary Park. It was a favorite park because it's really close to work and daycare, so we'd spent some time there in the past. But with more experienced friends to lead the way, we explored beyond the park's boundaries and headed out onto the Black Creek Greenway where we found ample space to roam and explore.
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| Beautiful spring day! |
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| Gideon: "Wait for me!" |
We were at the park for about 4 hours, running and playing and talking and swinging and running barefoot through the giant sand areas and going down huge slides... when we got home, it was straight to bed.
On Saturday, we were up bright and early to head down to Fuquay for Easter at Jonathan's cousin's house. With 6 kids ages 5 and under, I don't know that any of us took any pictures! But we ate a delicious Easter lunch and the kids got some good playtime. We came home with enough time to recover before Sunday, and I thanked my thoughtful self for stuffing the eggs well in advance of the night before Easter, because all we had to do was hide them and we were free to hit the sack.
Easter morning arrived, and Evelyn was very excited to check out her Easter basket and to hunt for eggs! She had some practice when the Easter bunny came to her school on Wednesday, so the schema was fresh in her mind.
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| That smart bunny brought her a tutu! |
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| Gideon's favorites: balls and maracas! |
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| Impressed with the chocolate bunny? |
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| Chocolate bunnies at breakfast? It should be Easter every day. |
The bunny left an egg dyeing kit for the kids, so Evelyn and Jonathan worked together to dye a few eggs. I think dyeing them on Easter itself is brilliant. It provides something interesting to do and it's one less thing to worry about in advance. (For those keeping count, that brings my total "things to worry about in advance" list down to two: fill eggs and get stuff for baskets.)
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| Dyeing eggs |
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| Such concentration |
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| I played peek-a-boo in the curtains with GOB while Evelyn dyed eggs. |
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| Some eggs were harmed in the making of Easter Sunday. |
We had a rainy and somewhat cold Easter this year, so most of the festivities took place indoors. After the egg dyeing, the kidlets played in a giant fort constructed in the living/dining room, and Evelyn requested some music so she could get in some dance time.
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| She asks to dance every single day. Such joy. |
Then, when the rain finally stopped, it was time to find some eggs. Evelyn and Gideon had already found the few eggs that the bunny hid for them inside the house, but Evelyn knew that there were more outside. She'd already peeked through all the windows and pointed out any eggs she could see from the house.
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| Such focus on the egg hunt. |
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| Gideon found eggs too - and loved it! |
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| Looking for eggs in the trees. She hasn't figured out that the Easter Bunny is only 5'3" |
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| Can you spot the egg in this picture? |
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| Opening the eggs. |
By the time the outside hunt was over, GOB had made it quite clear that he was ready for a nap, so I helped Evelyn dry off her eggs and sort their contents. She had eggs filled with cheerios, jelly beans, a few chocolate candies, bead necklaces, and lots and lots of lip stuff. The Easter Bunny must have read my mind, because I get a little edgy when Evelyn untwists and smashes the entire tube of Burt's Bees. And now she has her own (much cheaper) little tubes of lip stuff to do with as she pleases. Well done, Easter Bunny! I even got in a nice long shopping trip while Evelyn napped later in the afternoon, and we discovered that we have HBO GO so we started watching Six Feet Under. A very good weekend, indeed.
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