Easter Sunday Fun

We went to mass with Uncle Mike, picked up his friend from UD for the day, then headed home for brunch. While brunch cooked, the boys hunted Easter eggs in the yard.

Easter Egg Hunt

Meanwhile, we set up the 'Easter Basket Piles'...

The boys each received a choclate cross, a couple books, a small bucket of candy and plastic golf clubs with a ball (neither of which lasted through the afternoon). Clara got a chocolate cross and a pink blanket.

And Clara watched...

(this is the dress I picked out for her before she was born - it really was perfect for Easter!)

Enjoying Their Treats

Andrew, Louis, Uncle Mike, Peter

After brunch, we had even MORE fun! There is a Mexican tradition of using confetti-filled eggs (called 'cascarones') for Easter. We bought 2 dozen, set them outside and watched the boys have fun.

Cascarones

Uncle Mike gets Andrew

Peter running to get one of the college kids

The college kids were VERY amenable!

Getting confetti OUT of the hair...

Mike lifts Andrew to break an egg over Louis' head

Peter sort of adopted Louis for the day.

This could be why...Louis helped Peter get 'Unca Mike'

"Loius, can I put this egg on your head?"

And then, before dinner, we dyed Easter Eggs. It was the first time for my boys (hey, we've never had time before!) - and they said many, many times "This is so fun!" or "I just love coloring eggs". I think I may have started something...

Andrew, Mom, Peter's head, Uncle Mike, Louis' arm

Peter needed a little help 'drowning' the egg.

After eggs, we had a tasty pasta dinner made by Jim. Jim took Loius back to UD and we enjoyed some (homemade) strawberry shortcakes for dessert...none of which I have a picture of because we were too busy eating.

magic beans

WE've been doing a 'sacrifice bean' jar for Lent. Any time the boys do something 'extra' or that is a 'sacrifice', they get to put a dried bean in a glass jar. On Easter Sunday, these dried beans magically turn into jelly beans.

Peter was playing with the beans today and took one apart to see the inside.
"Mom! It's WHITE inside!"

"Is this where the jelly beans hatch from?"

be alone, together

Andrew, wandering around the house: "I just want to be ALONE!"
Peter: "But Andrew, I just want to be alone, too, with you."

I guess we need to work on what 'alone' means...

no parking zone

Peter, outside, crouching down to look at something: "Mom! Come see this! A spider parked his web here! Can you come move it?"

snuffy

No...not the giant elephant-like creature that used to be Big Bird's pal on Sesame Street.

This is what Peter says when he has a runny nose and is stuffed up.

"Mom, I'm all snuffy!"

millions of peaches, peaches for me

FINALLY got Clara to take more than 1 bite of something!
And she didn't even make the 'ugly' face.

The girl likes peaches!

In fact, she liked them so much that when I got up to put them away (thinking she was done); she whined a little, like "where are you going with my snack?!"

the 'great texas bird'

Part 1

My dad, Grandpa W, decided to tell the boys a story a while ago (Thanksgiving, maybe?) about the 'Great Texas Bird'. It is a bird that Grandpa W informed them says "woohoo! woohoo!"

After a couple quizzes about what the bird said, the idea of the 'Great Texas Bird' was firmly entrenched in Andrew & Peter's minds...nevermind the fact it doesn't exist.


Part 2

The boys are chatting at lunch about something, when they hear a bird singing.
Peter: "I like grackels. They're my favorite bird!"
Me: "Really?! I don't like them at all - why do you?"
Peter: "Because they're pretty singers."
Me: "I think their singing is yucky." (they sound like they're dying).

Peter: "Well, I like the birds with white and black spots."
Me: "Oh! THOSE are mockingbirds - not grackels!" (phew...grackels are miserable birds - mockingbirds are okay).
Peter: "Whopping-birds?! What are whopping-birds?!" (laughing b/c
Me (chuckling, b/c we're back to whopping-birds again...): "Mockingbirds are the state bird of Texas."
Peter: "Is that like the great Texas bird?"
Me: "Um, no...not really."
Peter: "Well...do they say 'wha-hoo'?"
Me: "Nope...no, they definitely don't say wha-hoo."
Peter, slightly confused: "Oh."

Grandpa W: 1
Texas & it's birds: 0

the 'bad bill'

Andrew went to get the mail the other day. He came back with 2 magazines, an envelope and a flyer or 2 of 'junk mail'. He handed me the envelope (from the electric company) with a concerned look on his face and said, "Oh no! We got a 'bad bill'!" LOL! Apparently, we need to tone down the 'I hate bills' talks...

little lady - 8 months

slurp, slurp

Peter, at dinner, eyeing his bowl of soup: "Is this soup?"
Jim & I: "yes."
Peter, excitedly: "YES! That means I can SLURP it!!"

It's the little things...