Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter Weekend

Yeah!! I'm going to be an aunt again!! My brother Leonard and his wife Michelle are expecting baby #2 around the first of Nov. We got a letter in the mail from them a few days before Easter with the explicit instructions NOT TO OPEN TILL EASTER. So Easter morning I opened the card. (yes I waited!!) Inside was a puzzle. Hard to see, but it says Baby #2!! Yeah! The rest of the AZ families also got puzzles. They put them together at my grammas Easter Brunch. Congrats Leonard and Michelle!!!
We had a fun weekend. Thursday night we colored Easter eggs. Zachary is a pro at coloring eggs. This was the first year we let Caleb color his own. He did good. After they were dry then we painted them with acrylic paint. Look at Zachary's tongue!! Even Christina had fun painting the eggs. She made a Chinese face (below), a chick and a few others.
Caleb painted one egg.
Then he discovered that painting his plate was more fun.
Notice the tongue?! They get that from me. Mike is always teasing me about sticking out my tongue when I concentrate. I think Mike got his holidays mixed up. Its not Halloween!! Its Easter!!! Like father like son. This is Mikes Mickey Mouse Egg. Poor Mickey. He's pretty scary looking. Zachary put his ears on that he made in Kindergarten. This is my bunny egg. Friday morning we got up early and drove to Boca Raton. Its just north of Fort Lauderdale. Mike had to work in Boynton Beach. He had 20 minutes worth of work. When he was done we did some sight seeing down to Fort Lauderdale. It is amazing the houses down there on the ocean. They are HUGE!! What do people do to be able to afford all that? Big houses, yachts, fancy cars. Sheesh. And there are SO MANY of them! We found a spot on the beach that had a playground next to it.

Zachary is getting really good at swinging. Caleb is starting to figure it out. But he doesn't go to high yet. Zachary loves to jump out of the swing. I remember I LOVED doing that as a child, but as a parent I was telling him, "Don't jump when you are so high, why do you have to jump? Cant you just slow down and get off?" You can see he listened to me. NOT!! It was a beautiful day, about 84. Water temp is 74. Nice!!! We let Christina bring her boyfriend. But we got a hotel room with a suite so Robby slept on the couch pull out and she slept with me. Mike and the boys shared the other bed. We got back late Saturday afternoon. Just in time to get things ready for the Easter Bunny. The boys were up at 8am and very excited to hunt for eggs that the Easter Bunny Man left them. (I don't know why they call him the Easter Bunny Man!) The Easter Bunny Man hid eggs all over the house. Living room, family room, kitchen, den, boys bedroom and out back. I don't know how he made it to any other house. We must of had 100 plastic eggs!! Of course it was a race to see who got the most. Caleb really held his own this year. They were almost exactly tied! The only reason Caleb was a few eggs behind was he kept stopping to open them and eat a piece of candy.

After they got full of candy, they needed to get some energy out, so out back they went. Caleb got a hold of the water sprayer and had fun chasing Zachary around the yard with it. Zachary loved every minute, yelling "Get me over here, I'm not wet enough yet!"

However, when Zachary got the hose and sprayed Caleb, he cried. He can dish it out but he can't take it!We had a nice Easter even if it was nothing like any of our past ones. I made a ham with apricot glaze and some veggies and bread. Mike and I didn't get out of our jammies all day!!!

Today is clean house day. Blah. Better go get to it!