Remember those commercials, for Cadbury Eggs I think, where the slogan was “Thanks Easter Bunny, Bawk, Bawk!”? Because of those commercials, in my family on Easter we always say, “Happy Easter, Bawk Bawk!” (We also say this for every other holiday and special occasion, but that’s another story – “Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, Happy President’s Day, Bawk Bawk!”) Anyway, at least for this year, I have officially changed our saying to “Happy Easter Quack Quack!” This is because Miss says “Quack Quack!” a lot. She says it every time she sees a picture of or a toy duck. She says it every time she sees a picture of a chicken or a goose. She now says it every time she sees a bird in our yard (we’re working on “Tweet Tweet”). Sometimes she says it when she sees the dogs (though she also says “Woof Woof” most of the time, which sounds kind of like “Bwooo”). She says it when she sees many things, including the rocking horse toy at the park! And it is completely adorable the way she says it, so I am dedicating this Easter post to the “Quack Quack!”
Today we had a fun Easter. My hubby had to work today, so we only did the Easter basket hunt before he left for work and saved the egg hunt until after he got home. Daddy helped Miss to find her “hidden” basket, but initially she was so excited to see a cup that he drank water out of last night and forgot on the hearth that she did not even notice the basket. See the post before last for an accounting of her love of big-girl cups.
One of the items in her Easter basket was a new baby doll. I got this for her in part to start teaching her the concept of “Be gentle with the baby. . .” Though she did give the babydoll some nice hugs and kisses, we’re still working on the gentle part.
I dyed Easter eggs for the first time today in many many years. I have never done it by myself, and haven’t done it at all since I was a kid. The smell of vinegar always brings back memories of dying eggs when I was a kid. Today, I had fun mixing the vinegar and the dye and trying to come up with some acceptable colors using brown eggs. Most of them came out pretty well, though sme of the purple and blue ones look pretty yucky.
After my hubby got home we did the Easter egg “hunt.” You can see Miss enjoying the small finger puppet she got from one of the eggs. The last egg is on the floor in the background. I actually had hidden it by the side of a bookcase, but it rolled out the the middle of the floor. I made it easy, but not that easy! Miss didn’t fully understand the hunting part and needed some help, but she had fun when she did find the eggs and get the treasures from the middle.
It was a very fun Easter, Quack Quack!!
Tomorrow is the big day we get to see Baby and find out if we have a Girl Baby or a Boy Baby!!!
Here’s how they started. The one on the right hung on the wall in my bedroom when I was a little girl, and I happened to see it at my parents’ house when I was there last week and decided it would work nicely as a sombrero. The one on the left was part of my antiquing score in Hazel. $1.50!! All I had to do was rip the flowers/lace/ribbon off, pick off 20-year-old hot glue that still wanted to cling to those things for dear life, and then add my own ball fringe and colorful rick rack. I had originally thought I would put lots and lots of gaudy ribbon and rick rack in different colors on the hats. But honestly after I added to ball fringe, they almost didn’t need anything else. They practically screamed “Sombrero!!!!” I did want to add a little color though, so the band of rick rack went on and I decided to quit while I was ahead. 
The hats were a hit! Mi hija es muy bonita!!!
The food and company of my friend and her daughter were fabulous as well and made for an all around enjoyable afternoon. My friend said she went a little nuts in the local supermercado, and she had the spread to prove it. I ate cactus for the first time, and it was delicious as was everything else. And my pregnant craving for all things burrito was happily satisfied today. So Happy Cinco de Mayo to you all!!
