Happy Easter Family!

Today we had our family Easter egg hunt! A wee bit early, because Scott headed out to St. Petersburg, Florida this afternoon for his next race and will be gone all weekend. The Raymonds are heading up this way next weekend for Easter and that weekend will be jam-packed with a town egg hunt, and a neighbourhood egg hunt on Saturday and the Raymond Eastereggstravaganza on Sunday, so this gave Liam a chance to polish up his egg-hunting skills with a quiet egg hunt at home with just the family. (ahem, remember last year? Boy Scouts' motto: be prepared. And bring extra eggs.)

So, last night we decorated our Easter tree and got the eggs all prepped. This morning, Scott and I took turns hiding the eggs (6 each) and Liam found them all. Once he found the first one, he was like a hound set loose! He was on the trail! After he filled his basket, we sat down and opened them to find lots of fun things inside. We pulled out his Easter basket and he went wild with all! of! the! little! cars! and! trucks! and! balls! His absolute favourite things in the world. Not that we need anymore, but what can you do?

So enjoy the photo montage!

The Easter Tree

Liam and the Easter Tree

Liam and his ears from last year.

Oh, there's an egg in the farm!

Ohhh! I see one!

This is fun!!

You can't fool me!

There are a lot of eggs!

There's even one at the track!

Got it!

Another one!

Let's see what's inside: a lizard and some chocolate!

An Easter basket full of cars, trucks, balls, paint and animals!

Little cars.

A fancy wooden racecar.

Look, Daddy! A Gasoline Truck!

A multitude of construction vehicles and animals living in harmony.

Go go car!

And the best of all: a beach ball!

Up up, beach ball!

Our little flower of spring!

A kiss for Daddy.

Oh, silly Daddy!

Peek-a-boo Blue Eyes!

So, we all had a blast.

Liam's been especially talkative the past week or so, and we can even have a bit of a conversation with him. He has moved from whining to using his words when he wants something, even if it's "please" and we are left guessing as to what he 'please' wants or "go" if he is all done and wants to go play. His words are becoming much clearer--for example, today in the garden he picked up a rock, and said, "A rock!" and threw it.

However, there are times when we are just out-to-lunch with what he's talking about. Yesterday, he kept sayin this one word over and over again. It sounded like "cock". Seriously. But whenever Scott or I would ask him "What's cock?" he would laugh hysterically. It was like he was saying to himself, "Haha, I got them to say 'cock'!" Today, the word was "hey". When we would ask him, "Liam, what's 'hey'?" again he would just laugh his big, deep belly laugh and look at us as if to say, "Gotcha!" This kid is a riot.

This afternoon, after Scott flew out, Liam and I met up with some other mommies and kids for dinner at Red Robin. They are famous for giving out free balloons. (and their yummy burgers, apparently, but whatever) So, after a lovely dinner with friends, we left behind a bit of a balloon graveyard above our table. You see, it's easier to just get another balloon for our kids to play with when they start getting antsy than packing up and heading home to an empty house. It was well worth the sacrifice.

Well, another busy week while Scott's away: library and playgroup tomorrow, shopping and playdate/dinnerdate on Friday, ELMO!! on Saturday (yay, MELMO! and NERNIE! and the rest of the Sesame Street crew!) For a kid who never watches Sesame Street, he's still innundated with Sesame Street stuff! The characters are on his diapers for heaven's sake! Liam walks around with an Ernie diaper because he likes Ernie so much. (Thankfully, a real Ernie doll is on order and should arrive any day...) We have a birthday party to attend on Saturday, too, for our 2 year old neighbour. Scott will be home on Sunday, so time should fly pretty quickly.

Well, my dry spell is over. This post is going up!

love,

b