Easter

On Christmas Eve, we beat it into Ava's head that she HAD to stay in her bedroom until at least 6:00 so we could be sure Santa had enough time to make his visit to our house. And she complied. Apparently, we didn't make enough of a stink on Easter "Eve", because we heard some rustling downstairs at around 3:15 A.M. Scot went down to investigate and found Ava sitting at the kitchen table, coloring, with 4 of her eggs that she had already found. Scot immediatley ushered her back to bed. Sigh...

Despite the early morning wakeup, we had a nice Easter weekend - my parents came over on Saturday and then Julie, Todd and Marilyn joined us for an Easter lunch on Sunday - we had to eat relatively early because Scot flew out to Atlanta later that afternoon for a week of sim training. The girls had a ball, first looking for the plastic eggs we hid around the house with goodies in them. They both needed a little bit of coaching to find the last few and were happy to find M&Ms, jelly beans and quarters in the eggs. The Easter bunny also dropped off some baskets filled with goodies. Ava's favorite present was a kite. She's been wanting one FOREVER and had it on her Christmas list, but Santa thought it mkight have been cruel to give it to her then...hopefully we'll be able to get out and use it soon. Reese really enjoyed all of the candy - you could barely catch a glimpse of her that morning without some sort of chocolate or jelly bean oozing out of her mouth. The girls got more baskets from Chuck and Sandy, the Wenzels and the Bagbys. They were very lucky! I picked through a bunch of the chocolate and candy and took about 75% of their loot to work a few days later. My coworkers were especially happy to see the Easter bunny leave treats for them and it was all gone by about 11 am.