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Friday, April 16, 2010

Easter 2010

Easter started early for us. The weekend before Easter our neighborhood held it's annual egg hunt at Proctor Plaza. It was a great way to introduce Sofia to an egg hunt since it was her first one. We showed up just as it started so of course by the time we ran out to the field there weren't any eggs left So instead we played on the playground and I found some empty, discarded plastic eggs and she put them in her basket and she was so happy with her empty eggs. Ignorance is bliss!

After awhile they did another hunt for a few of the late kids. But the other kids were too big and too fast. Every time she would spot an egg it would be snatched up by the time she made it there.



We walked the perimeter of the park though and she did find a few. She's such a happy laid-back kid and was more than content with that.



And even more content to realize that these eggs had candy and stickers in them. No longer ignorant Sofia was ready to enjoy all the candy that Easter had to offer.

Daycare Egg Hunt
On Holy Thursday Sofia's school held an egg hunt. One of the other mom's sent me some pics. I love that we have a picture of all the friends in her class with her teacher, Ms. Claudia.





Bobo is Here
Good Friday was really good for us. Bobo came to visit! Sofia was so excited to pick him up at the airport.



We took Bobo to the mall,



and played at the indoor park.



When we got home Sofia had a gift waiting for her from Emi. There was a beautiful basket purse for Easter Sunday and a ceramic bunny that belonged to Baba which we will take out every Easter and treasure. But Sofia was really more intrigued with the chocolate carrot and the baby chick.





On Saturday Sofia showed off her cute little bunny basket (and the new shirt Bobo gave her) she made at school. It's the bottom part of a 2-liter coke bottle painted white and decorated to look like a bunny. It was so cute!



We went out for a nice dinner, after which Sofia had the biggest bowl of ice cream she's ever seen,



and Bobo made Sofia an accomplice in his Splenda theft ring.







Easter Sunday
I put the finishing touches on my coconut cupcakes



and we headed out the door for church.







After church we headed to Spring to spend Easter Sunday with the Henkes. Aunt Betty and Uncle Bob have the best yard for an egg hunt and we always have so much fun visiting with them. Grandma and Grandpa were there



and lots of the Henke's family, including Margaret and her family. Sofia was especially excited to see Nathan who's just one week younger than her and his little brother Matthew who is just a few months old and as cute as a button!













It was nice for Sofia to have a day with all her grandparents.



Even if she wasn't particularly excited about posing with her Grandpas.



Check out that pout!



And it was nice to have Papi there who found some political allies in the Henkes. He wanted to take a picture with the Tea Party sign in their front yard. I thought he was kidding.

He wasn't.



After a delicious brunch the kids went out back for yet another egg hunt. This one was great because the competition wasn't quite as stiff and there were about a hundred eggs. Plus, Sofia unknowingly made it a perpetual egg hunt. Sofia would run with her basket full of eggs and some would fall out without her even noticing so then when she turned around there were more eggs to find. She and Nathan had a lot of fun and all the adults followed them around like paparazzi.









If there was one thing Sofia learned during the past two egg hunts it's that Easter eggs should be filled with candy. But thankfully (for me) these eggs didn't have any candy. They were filled with prizes and coins.

She was all business while opening her eggs. She would shake the egg to see if there was something inside. Then she'd open the egg, realize it was just money and quickly close and discard it. She had zero interest in the ones with "mundy" in them. But was finally appeased once she eventually stumbled upon one with a fruit snack.





The whole afternoon was so much fun. Aunt Betty gave Sofia some great toys and bubbles and books. She especially loved the beach basket and shovel. The fountain in the backyard was probably filled up with dirt from all of Sofia's digging. Both the kids loved playing in the fountain and in the dirt.





Sofia discovered this little doggy statue which is just the back half of a dog. It's meant to look like a dog who has stuck his head underground. She lifted the little guy up and said, "Doggie broken."



The kids enjoyed the backyard and sat down together for a cupcake.







I think they were a hit.



Nathan and Sofia seemed to like playing together. It's fun to get them together every year and see how much they change.







It was such a lovely end to a lovely Easter weekend. We are so blessed!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Easter Candy

When I think of the Easter holidays of my youth I think of frilly dresses and hats, Papi chasing a young "Easter Emily" around the backyard (that's a story for another day!) I think of Easter baskets and eggs and Mom's Easter ham.

But what I remember most are the Cadbury eggs.

Mom loved them. She would buy them the minute they went on sale. For me a Cadbury egg is as essential to Easter as the Easter bunny. And Jesus, of course, but you know what I mean!

So I had to buy them for Sofia's basket. I actually don't even like them but I figured maybe she would and as I've already pointed out, Easter just isn't the same without a Cadbury egg.

I think there was more candy in this house this Easter than even during Halloween. Between the neighborhood egg hunt, the party at daycare and the family Easter gifts we had more candy than any one two-year old (and her Mommy) need. So I had to heed my mother-in-law's advice when she told me to just throw it away because it would just keep on coming. She was right!

By the end of the day on Sunday, after dinner, I told Sofia she could pick one thing - whatever she wanted - as her final treat because I was throwing the rest of it away. So I was so confused when she kept saying, "obu." I held out baskets and bags and bowls full of candy, I paraded chocolate ducks and bunnies and even cupcakes before her in an attempt to decipher just what "obu" meant. Then Dan figured it out. And asked her, "Oval? You want an egg?"

Yes!

And she went after it with a serious gusto. I think it would seriously take me about 10 minutes to finish one of those things. Hers was gone in about 60 seconds flat.

Enjoy!


Sunday, February 14, 2010

Celebrating Valentine's Day





There's Sofia in one of the cute heart outfits she wore to celebrate Valentine's Day this year. Unfortunately she was feeling a little sick this week but she got to spend extra days at home with Mommy and Daddy and even a whole day with Grandma and Grandpa. Luckily after that she was well enough on Friday to go to her school party.

I read about this great idea for kid's valentines on a friend's blog and I just HAD to make some for Sofia. They turned out so cute! It was so fun to pass them to all her friends and teachers at school. We also sent some to her grandparents and all her cousins.



I got Dan a workout book he's been wanting and some chocolates.



And Dan helped Sofia make Mommy a Valentine's Day breakfast. She stirred up the pancake batter...



helped crack the eggs...



and helped to scramble them!



She even helped clean up.



Mommy made heart-shaped pancakes for Sofia.





It's been a fun morning so far. It's cold outside today and Sofia's still a little congested so we'll probably just spend the rest of the afternoon at the house playing and napping. Hope your Valentine's Day was a special one!! Love to all...

**UPDATE**

Dan came home later in the day with some sweet Valentine staples for his two favorite girls... heart-shaped box o' chocolates...



beautiful flowers...



a heart-shaped balloon, or as Sofia says, "ah-boon" ...



and a sweet little Dr. (of love) Snoopy doll.



And since the weather turned out to be beautiful I ended up forgoing a day of laundry and instead went to Discovery Green with these two cuties.



Sofia loved the park!



It was a beautiful day spent as a happy family...