Easter Holiday...and more...

I've been lax in updating my journal lately. There's been reasons...and now, there's a lot of information to assemble and relate. I'll try to cover it all, but with my memory, who knows?

Easter Weekend:

Friday we went shopping. The kids were invited to a birthday party that Saturday, so we needed a gift. We picked up some Easter fun stuffs too. Shopping went really well, surprisingly. Amongst the "I wants", we managed to pick out a baby doll for Pookah's friend.

Saturday was the party. I was able to get off work early so I could go see. Their first birthday party invitation *awwww*. Mom made a baby doll blanket for Pookah's friend while I was at work. The party went well...I think both kids had fun. There wasn't much organized fun in the way of the smaller children, but I think free play went well. They served cupcakes and ice cream for the birthday. Pookah didn't want her cupcake, but she screamed for more ice cream (quite literally). Bug liked the frosting, but didn't eat the cupcake.

Easter:

Overall, the holiday went really well. We had a big dinner over at our house, with my aunt's husband cooking in our kitchen. Its been a long time since we've done that. My cousin and her fiance showed up as well. The morning was pretty much business as usual, with a frantic cleaning of the house. I didn't get the kids dressed until closer to the time when people were coming over, because I wanted them to stay nice. Expected arrival times were set for about 1 pm. Amazingly, everyone was close to that time.
Pookah wore a pretty yellow sundress, with her little red and black dress shoes. We discovered we didn't have any sandals for her. She looked absolutely adorable. Mom took them to get haircuts earlier in the week, and she's got a little page boy style hair cut.
Bug wore a little suit, complete with tie. It was very, very adorable. Mom got some good pics of him in it. We even had a little pair of wingtips for him. He was so proud of himself, he stayed up from nap long enough to tell my aunt how spiffy he looked. He didn't even want me to take off his shoes for nap....I had to convince him to take off the tie and jacket. He told everyone who would listen that he looked spiffy. ~*grin*~
After nap, the kids had an easter egg hunt. It was funny, neither were interested in the decorated easter eggs - they both wanted the plastic eggs. Those had teddy grahams and fruit loops in them, both a big hit with my two. They each had a basket that they got to find, and then a basket that was for the two of them. I forgot to mention that on Saturday after the birthday party, we decorated eggs. Pookah had no interest in taking the crayon to them - she only wanted to drop them in the dye. She got SCREAMING mad when she couldn't do it. Bug tried the crayons, and seemed to enjoy doing that as well as coloring.
In the morning, between waiting times, he was putting on the pieces for the planes and cars. He had more fun just playing with the eggs on the moveable bases, I think. It was fun to watch him.
Pookah's basket had a ball, a stuffed bunny and a small yellow wagon. I think she liked the bunny and wagon the best. She pulled the wagon around most of the day, and even got a ride on it. She has the bunny in her crib with her, and even snuggles with it at night. Easter night, she brought it up with her.
Bug's basket was a Madagascar safari kit. He got excited looking at all the things. It had a net, a bug container, a helmet, binoculars and a few more items. It even had a big tin bucket. The biggest thing with that, I think was that it was Madagascar, which is one of his favorites. Currently, its Lion King 2.
The basket that we got for them both had plastic kitchen stuff. It had a blender and mixer that were battery operated. I think those were the biggest hits. A small tea set came in 2nd, I think. I need to find a drawer for all of that stuff...its currently residing in various places on my living room floor. Bug discovered that if you converted the mixer into a hand mixer and placed it on a surface it spins around and makes a funny noise. That had several minutes of pure entertainment. Pookah discovered that if you put half a small plastic egg in the blender just right and hit the button to pulse it, the egg would become airborne. I swear she was perfecting aim. She almost got her brother a few times.

I think the time after Easter deserves its own post, actually. Mostly because right now, I don't have the time to type it all out. Whee.