Easter Weekend

By Easter weekend, we knew for sure that new baby would arrive, ready or not, the following week, so we tried to have one more fun and active weekend.  Lawrence had an Earth Day parade, which Steph and I went to after her dance class.  Then there were Earth Day activities at the park, but the only one we saw were the bouncy houses and bouncy obstacle courses (as large houses being pumped up with huge air pumps are very Earth friendly and certainly don't waste absurd amounts of our precious energy resources).  Regardless, for the reasonable price of $5, your child could bounce all day.  Since bouncing around is pretty much what Stephanie does all day most days, I knew she would get some serious bounce for our bucks!  There was a rope climbing portion of the obstacle course, and Stephanie scaled it better and faster than many of the other children (we have always thought she was part monkey...).  It was a highly unregulated bounce experience, and kids were just piled in there, which would generally be concerning, but Stephanie really just had a blast and moved through it all so quickly that it didn't seem to matter how many kids there were.  In fact, when the line for the rope climb was too long, she took to just scaling the wall without the rope (so apparently she is also part Spiderman)!

Sunday, of course, was Easter.  We went to morning church, which had a small Easter Egg hunt afterwards.  Then home for lunch and nap, during which time the Easter Bunny set up an elaborate egg hunt with picture clues.  After "nap", which of course she didn't sleep after being told about the Easter Bunny's imminent arrival, she did her egg hunt.  She was unimpressed with the Easter basket at the end, as she just wanted more clues to follow and was disappointed that the hunt was over.  Just a note on the outfit she wore to church... This was the outfit we negotiated for.  We wanted her to wear a dress, and she wanted to wear pajamas with her bathing suit cover-up on top.  We got the dress with the promise that she could wear and bring any accessories she wanted... She took full advantage of this offer, and we ended up barely being able to see the dress.

Her Sunday finest

One of the clues in the eggs.  I think the Easter bunny really outdid himself!  And as a special favor to us, he hid the clues such that it maximized her running around the yard, just to get a bit more time out of the hunt and burn off a bit more energy.