Easter

Just some photos from our day:

Crazy bed-head! Off to start our treasure hunt! All in all, it was a lovely, relaxing day. We sadly had to cancel all our weekend plans due to our family's illnesses, including our Easter meal with friends Beth, Jim and Dianna. But we made the most of our small Easter together.

We are all generally feeling better today and are hoping to all be able to go to our respective schools tomorrow! 8 more weeks until Summer Vacation!

Easter Bunny Anticipation

"I'm so impatient!" No matter how sick, Elijah is still VERY excited for the Easter Bunny's arrival.

Most of you know that I am a bit torn about proliferating the fictional existence of strange people/animals who break into people's homes looking for snacks and leaving behind food and/or gifts. But for some reason, maybe it's this lingering illness that has been plaguing poor Elijah for almost 3 weeks, I have gotten really into the Easter Bunny this year. Scarily so. And ever since we saw the movie "Hop," Elijah has a picture in his mind of what the Easter Bunny looks like, where he works, how he travels around, etc etc.

So tonight, after bath but before bed, we were talking about...you guessed it... the Easter Bunny. Elijah asked, "How will the Easter Bunny get into my room?" Without a canned response at my fingertips (Santa Claus is easy, everyone knows his mode of entry), I bumbled some foolish answer about how he can magically pass through walls. Instantly, I recognized my foolish mistake as Elijah's face clouded over with fear (See why I'm uncomfortable with these characters? I'm a terrible fabricator of realistic-seeming facts, and now I've scared the bejeezus out of my kid). He did NOT like the idea of anyone "passing through walls."

What was I thinking?

Fumbling and backpedaling, my mind racing wildly, I quickly corrected myself and explained that, however, if you leave the Easter Bunny a letter telling him where to find the key, he will simply enter using the door (like any common house invader). This totally smoothed things over, and we got to work.

Elijah dictated the following letter, with conversational prompts provided by me:Then we counted out said carrots......hung the letter on the outside of the door, low enough so that the Easter Bunny would certainly see it...
...and called it a night. Phew. Another litany of deception accomplished. Not sure I can keep this up for the next 5 or 6 years!

Vacation Woes!

We've had our ups and downs this vacation with sickness. Coming into the vacation, Elijah had already been struggling with a cold/cough/ear infection for 10 days, and I had begun to feel the effects right towards the end of the work week.
It just never went away!
Finally, by Tuesday, Elijah was starting to show improvement and by Thursday evening I was. Then, BOOM! Ed got sick with different symptoms (no cough, but terrific body aches and a fever) and, alas, Elijah put himself down for a suspicious nap at 11:30 this morning and awoke a couple hours later sporting a fancy 102-degrees!
So now I'm the only healthy one, but who knows what tomorrow might bring? In my depression/desperation I have eaten almost all the Easter candy, and now I have to go out tomorrow to buy more.

Here's the cuter of the 2 sickies:

I feel so sorry for Elijah because tomorrow is the annual Success By Six "Big Truck Day," which he truly has looked forward to for months, as well as his little buddy Quinn's birthday party. We went shopping for Quinn's birthday present at Toys 'R' Us on Wednesday and Elijah's been SOOOO excited since then. I need to learn Mom Lesson #1- never inform your child of any plans until you are ready to literally walk out the door!


We were supposed to have Martha and Chris over for dinner tomorrow night, but I called and left a message about my "Y-chromosome" family members falling ill.
Sunday (Easter) we offered to host our good friends Beth & Jim with their daughter Dianna. Not sure yet how (if) that might play out.

So it's been a really awesome vacation. Really. Awesome.

To end on a high note, here's a cute video of Elijah when he was feeling well. He is "shaking his bootie" to the KC and the Sunshine Band's 1970's hit. I must be doing a thousand things wrong with my camera, and thus cannot figure out why the videos come out so poorly on this blog. They look fine on the camera screen! But you'll get the idea!

Yes, at the end of the video, it DOES sound like he says, "I'm going to poop on you." Honestly, I have no idea if that's really what he said or, if so, where in the world that came from. We'll just pretend we didn't hear that part and try only to remember previous cute booty-shaking.

KIDS- they say the darndest things!

Enjoying Some Sunshine During Spring Break!

First Movie

This morning I took Elijah to see his very first movie. We went to the 10:00AM showing of "Hop" at the Essex Cinema. Here's the excited boy, getting ready: Blurry, but I was trying to capture his excitement at the popcorn machine:

Gotta love the toothpaste stain on the front of his shirt. We're all about appearances over here!

Comfy seats!

I wondered if Elijah might be too young to go to the movie theater, but all in all, I would say it was a huge success. He sat and watched the whole movie and really seemed like he was enjoying himself!

Easter Egg Hunt

Last year at the fairfax Easter Egg Hunt, it was 80 degrees.

This morning, it was 39.9 degrees.

To say the least, we noticed the difference while we waited for the hunt to begin!

Once the kids got running around, they warmed up quickly and had a really fun time searching for plastic eggs!

Chocolate Boy

Tonight, for the first time ever, we bring to you...

"Chocolate Boy!"

One cool dude...

...unless it's not cool to wear Mommy's sunglasses!

Batter Up!

As poorly as the Red Sox are doing so far this season, seems they'd be hard pressed to recruit such a good little slugger!

Early Spring Pics

Just a few pictures of what we've been up to this Spring!

Two boys, maybe up to no good? We read about the Very Hungry Caterpillar and then... ...We crafted our own egg-carton caterpillar

Last weekend was the Annual Success-by-Six Birthday Bash. First we played in the gym

Then spent some time at the sand-craft table Back in the gym, working off some of that delicious birthday cake on the "Sit-n-Spin" Finally, we hit the rec path with our buddy Quinn for some tree-climbingSpring is in the air!