E. Bunny Hops on Through

Mr. Bunny made his visit yesterday morning, leaving behind his cute eggs, instead of other…. um, bunny leavings. Thankfully. The girls were ecstatic, running around collecting little plastic eggs filled with treats and other goodies. Baboo dragged her basket all over the house, and after each egg she found she said “Tank-um” (which is her slang version of thank you). The hunt took all of 6.3 minutes. Oh well. Next year, E. Bunny will make it a bit harder.

We did do a hunt outside after breakfast as well. MRS Bunny (aka ME) was up at 6, crunching around in my pajamas on the frosty grass to hide the dyed eggs in the back yard, after about 3.5 hours of sleep because of a sick little Baboo. I was just falling back to sleep when Mouse came in at 6:45 to announce VERY LOUDLY that the Easter Bunny had been in her room and left a new basket AND EGGS!

All very exciting. And yes we acted very surprised.

I managed to convince her to lay down with me for about 45 minutes to allow Baboo to sleep a bit longer, but then her anxious, excited wiggling drove us out of bed.

All in all we had a good day. It was quiet for us and involved some yard work, but also included much digging up of dirt (to add some mulch under the slide/swings) and highly successful worm hunting. That makes it a good day at our house.

I have to say how much I enjoy being on the giving end of holidays. I know how excited I used to be when I was a kid, waiting for the magic of Christmas, Easter etc… and I love being able to recreate that for our girls.

To commemorate the day, Mouse made a little book called “Mouse’s Egg Adventure”. She drew a bunch of pictures showing where the eggs were hidden –real and imaginary – including the play structure in the back yard WITH the big mud puddle at the bottom of the slide, and an imaginary “pretty, princess tree”. She signed her name to each page (this cracks me up) and asked me to narrate her story by describing the picture on each page. “Egg under a chair. Egg under the slide. Egg under the pretty princess tree”. She read it to us at bed time. This is beyond precious to me and will put this away in her momentos. It’s just so cute.

Baboo had been sick on Saturday, having a fever and an infected vaccination site on her leg which involved a trip to the local clinic, and now 10 days of antibiotics 4 times a day. Oy. She’s much better, he leg looks 100 times better and she is back to her spunky self.

Yesterday was our respite and today Mouse woke up with a fever and croup. Sigh. It’s a crappy, rainy day so we’re hanging out inside, in our jammies, watching waayyy too much tv and likely recreating the ‘GREAT EGG HUNT OF 2009’ several dozen times.

Hope you all had a happy, healthy Easter!