Happy Easter

No, no Easter baby in our house, unfortunately. But we did have a nice Easter, all the same.

In Primary all the lessons and sharing time were focused on the Easter story, which was nice. I was surprised at how well our 5-year-old class understood the concept of the resurrection being the focus of Easter. Kudos to their parents!!

The choir sang some beautiful songs during Sacrament meeting, and we also enjoyed a couple talks. The Primary kids sang "Hosanna", complete with chimes by the older kids. Melinda looked so cute, standing up there and barely moving her mouth (even though she would practically shout the song during practices!), but grinning the whole while.

During sharing time, I sent Jesse home to quickly hide Easter eggs so the kids would find them as we walked in after church. It worked! Melinda never once mentioned anything about Mommy or Daddy hiding eggs, just the "Easter bunny"- woohoo!

Here are some pictures from egg dying on Saturday:

Jacob shows off his "Incredible Hulk" green hands. This kid would not stop touching the green dye!!
Jacob's still showing off his green hands, Melinda's putting a freshly dyed egg onto the rack, and I am trying my best not to look the size of a beached whale:By the way, we also went for a nice brisk mile-long walk on Saturday, but it didn't start labor. I have, however, been having about 10 contractions per day for a few days. Nothing to really write home about - just strong enough that I'm actually feeling and noticing them, instead of thinking my body is doing absolutely nothing to get ready to birth this baby.

Here are some pics and a video from the Easter egg hunt.
Just discovering their baskets, which were sitting on the couches when they walked in:
Melinda holds her new little felted wool bunny and carrot (from Etsy.com). These were an absolute hit, by the way! The kids played with them all afternoon.
And if Melinda's dress looks familiar, it is! It's the same dress we got for her last year, and it still fits, yay! Jacob didn't have any new Easter clothes this year, though, although his green and blue and tie fits the season fairly well.

Here's a video of the hunting:

Melinda's got me pegged

(And because two posts in one day just isn't enough, obviously....)

Easter is coming up. It's obvious, the candy and decorations are everywhere, and unavoidable! On the way home from the grocery store today, Melinda suddenly says, "Mommy, you're the Easter Bunny!"

Wow. This girl's 4 years old.... "What? What makes you think that?"

"Because we stayed in the bedroom and blew bubbles with Daddy and you hid candy!"

"Why do you think I hid the candy?"

"Well, I saw that Easter Egg on the doorknob, you put it there."

"How do you know I wasn't just watching the Easter Bunny hide the candy? Bunnies are pretty quiet, you know...they don't make very much noise! Maybe you just didn't hear the Easter Bunny."

"But Mom, we don't have any pets!"

Huh? Oh...bunnies are pets, I guess. "Well the Easter Bunny isn't a pet just like Santa Claus isn't a pet."

Conversation ended, as we pulled up to our house, and Melinda started querying about which parking spot we had last time compared to this time.

And I was completely exasperated. Either Melinda is incredibly smart, or I'm incredibly bad at pulling off mythical holiday creatures.

It probably doesn't help that there's no time to do Easter hunts until after church, and therefore no time to hide the candy without the kids around. But come on, she remembered all of this, and figured it out, based on something that happened when she was 3.5 years old? Where's the magic in that?