Pre-Easter Rundown.

Trying to catch up on Easter before the next holiday gets here! Lots of pictures to share!

We had a great Easter holiday. Dry, semi-warm weather and lots of friends and family to celebrate with. We headed to the Great North on Friday and had a nice pizza dinner with Dickie, Noonie, Uncle Stevie (who will hence forth be known as Stinkiedoo) and Aunt Emily.

We stayed with Grammy and Papa Frank this trip and Saturday morning we had some fun coloring eggs. Gillian had picked out a cool "glitter dye" set at the grocery store LONG before Easter, so we were READY.



Look how patient she appears to be.




Getting close!


Apparently we have no "finished" egg pictures! They turned out very pretty. The colors were quite intense and the glitter was pretty. Not so nice when you try to peel and eat the egg, maybe?

After eggs we met some "old" hometown friends and their kiddos at the Brockway playground for some fun. These diggers got a good workout!









Both kiddos took good naps that afternoon! Then we headed to Great-Grandma and Great-Papa's house for (a DELICIOUS) Easter dinner and an egg hunt with Sarah and Ben!





All warmed up and ready for Easter now!

Easter, Part 2

After a delicious lunch at Great-Grandma's we headed back to Grammy's house to grab a quick power nap. Thankfully, both kiddos were out like lights and, at least, got an hour of sleep before we were on to our next adventure!

Grammy had things all set up to dye some eggs when the kids got up!

Gillian was quite intent on her egg work. She wanted an egg in each cup and she wanted to get it out again, IMMEDIATELY. She really didn't take kindly to artistic direction either.






Colin was pretty excited too. He was more open to letting Uncle D and Aunt Cedes helping a bit though!






When Colin was done, he moved on to go play trains. Gillian took over his side of the table, and was even LESS inclined to accept assistance. She was thumping the eggs pretty hard at this point and cracked one (as to be expected from a two year old, but, really, she wasn't listening AT ALL).



A split second after that picture, I went to grab her to get her down from the table and she moved backwards, and BOOM, giant bloody lip. And screaming. It looked much worse than it actually was though, and after an icy cold washcloth, some cuddling, and a bit of distraction, she was fine. Although, it was a fine looking bump for a few days. And she needed to change clothes. I hadn't brought many spares for the weekend, so she was quite content to wear The Famous Piggy Jammies to dinner.

We headed into Dickidoo and Noonie's house for supper. The kids always love going there. On the drive in, Colin told us he wanted to go swimming in Dickiedoo's pool though. Perhaps the NEXT holiday he can do that!

Colin and Gillian always enjoy playing with Noonie's grand-children's left-over toys (they are mostly too old for these toys now, but we're glad they still left them!). They especially like the wooden doll cradle and wooden rocking horse. And some baby dolls!



However, Colin's favorite find of the evening was a whoopie cushion. I have no idea what it was doing at Dickidoo's house, but somehow, it just doesn't surprise me that it was there! Colin laughed his butt off for about 30 minutes with that thing. It was very funny.


Check out the whoopie cushion peeping out from under his bum! He would put it on the floor, then sit down as hard as be could, but he's so little, it wouldn't do anything! Daddy helped him out though!


Colin just loves to get wound up with Dickiedoo. Because that is just what Dickiedoo does with little kids. Always has been.


Anyway, we got the kids into bed a reasonable hour and started to wait for the bunny!