Suzy and Joel and Owen and Evie

Knowing we’d have four kids doing the egg hunt this year instead of two we decided that hunting for a dozen eggs just didn’t seem that fun. This was before we knew we’d be dyeing four dozen eggs the day before. So we filled plastic eggs with candy and Joel had fun hiding them.When my brother and I were kids we had similar egg hunts with the older cousins on Easter, though no one kept track of how many eggs were hidden so every year some kid would find an old dirty faded egg with a fossilized jellybean inside. It also didn’t help that the eggs were hidden over two acres of oaks, firs and scrubby underbrush. This year all the eggs were accounted for despite some woods, leaves, and shrubs.

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The bunny made a mistake this year and put Owen’s candy and toys in the pink basket, so he was a bit confused when he saw his blue basket with fairy and mermaid toys, but Lego Racers and a TinTin book in Evie’s basket. Evie didn’t notice, of course, because really who cares about about the color of a basket when there’s candy to eat before breakfast.

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This year we dyed eggs—4 dozen eggs—at Bella and Lucas’s house. The kids had a great time using the dyes, stickers, gold paint, and crayons. Then after the eggs there was a birthday party for Bella who was turning 4 the next weekend, followed by playing, dinner, more playing, and then back to Gram and Gramps with a very sad Evie in the car who didn’t want the party to end.

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We went to our usual parade-watching spot near our dentist’s office, right at the beginning of the parade route. The parade had the usual stuff: bagpipers (Evie’s favorite), fire trucks (Owen’s favorite), Hibernian societies, and assorted community group and schools. This year we let Owen take pictures and he actually took 400 shots. (Digital cameras are so great!) Many of Owen’s pictures do feature lots of legs and few heads due to Owen’s lower perspective, but he did shoot lots of interesting compositions.

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At Owen’s school, each of the kids is a leader for an entire week. These additional responsibilities include being the line leader, introduce the day’s calendar, and presents for show-and-tell. The show-and-tell is limited to one of three things: something from nature, a book, or something the kid made.This week, Owen is the leader and tomorrow he is bringing in this rocket that he made with his mom. (On Monday, he took a Lego spaceship - a Star Wars snowspeeder.) If you look very carefully, you may be able to see that this is rocket X-FLR6, which is the Cuthbert Calculus-designed rocket that carried Tintin and Captain Haddock to the moon.

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