We have all been working very hard on writing our letters (with great results!). And what better way to practice writing your letters than by writing letters - made up of letters- to your cousins!
So, we sat down on a cool, calm vacation Monday and we wrote our letters. You two wrote your letters all by yourself:
Aidan, you licked the envelope:
Julia, you put on the stamp:
And then we dropped it in the mailbox...
A few days later, guess what happened?
Signed, sealed, delivered!
We'll be writing more letters...so we can deliver the letter...the sooner the better!
Twas a day before Easter, and spring had sure sprung.
The two of you painted your eggs with great skill.
FOUR were consumed by Aidan, who didn't even get ill.
One fell to the ground and got put aside.
One more got eaten by Preston and Toby when we all went inside.
Notes were written and carrots left out.
For that magical little bunny, without nary a doubt.
In the morning you saw that he signed your notes and filled your baskets,
With candy, and goodies, and books, and make-up and transformers!
(ps. rhyming proved to be hard, so I'm forsaking it for now).
Easter morning was a blast of reading books, eating candy, working together to assemble some amazingly tiny little metal airplanes, playing with legos, and choosing Easter outfits to wear to Aunt Nessa's and Uncle Phil's house/farm for Easter.
Outfit choice #1 was incredible:
Outfit choice #2 was more forceful:
Then we hit the road...where you both were awfully quiet. And then we realized that the 'magic wands' we got you were in fact pens. And that you two figured it out. and had made some sort of puppet show which you were acting out (with voices)
When we got to the farm, we explored around and had a great lunch.
After lunch, you two, and a couple older boys from Germany, had an amazing Easter Egg Hunt.
On your marks...get set...GO!
Spirits were high, and both of you EXCELLED at finding eggs from all over the place!
Even when the final eggs were stealthily hidden, you two kept searching high and low:
When all was said and done, you all had amassed quite the loot!
The rest of the gorgeous afternoon was occupied with eating candy, talking to family, and fun outdoor activities.
We fixed kites, crashed kites, trashed kites, cursed kites and...finally FLEW kites...and Aidan, you were so proud when you got yours to fly! #Victory!
We blew bubbles!
We got to play with, cradle, and not kill BABY CHICKS!
And porchin' it...
There was also a bit of 'butt biting for baba' and 'tummy stepping to squeeze out toots' but we won't talk about that...
It was a picture perfect Easter with Yaya, Baba, Aunt Sham, Uncle Joe, Aunt Chrissy, Aunt Nessa, Gigi, Pa, Uncle Phil and Uncle Werner, and everyone else.
The sweet memories, and sweet treats, are are pretty good Easter basket haul!
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