Stirling and Mommy

I love hanging out with my little boy. We have so much fun together!

Easter

Ok, so I'm a little behind in posting. We hadn't planned on doing anything at all to celebrate Easter. Since we aren't church-goers, we didn't really feel like we needed to celebrate the day in the sense that it is meant to be celebrated, and hiding eggs for no reason didn't seem right. But... we have the cutest almost-two year old and I just thought it would be fun to watch him hunt for Easter eggs, especially after he enjoyed his Easter party and egg hunt at school so much! So I dyed eggs with Stirling the night before Easter. He had fun dipping the eggs in the cups and staining my counter tops! I found an old package of Smarties in the cupboard and divided it up among the few plastic eggs we had, and then hid the eggs in our front yard on Easter morning. We gave Stirling his basket and showed him the first egg. He got so excited! The excitement and the candy was enough to have Stirling shouting, "happy EE-sa" over and over when we skyped with his Grandpa and Grandma!



Not only did we have a really good morning with Easter festivities, we also went to the county fair that afternoon. It was Stirling's first time at the fair, and we discovered some parts of the fair that we hadn't known about before. They had a special area just for little kids that included a fake cow you could "milk," a couple of sand boxes that had corn instead of sand, musical instruments, blocks, pedal tractors, etc. That was way cool! Stirling also had a pony ride which he really enjoyed and went into the petting zoo where he hugged a donkey and saw a kangaroo. The only thing he didn't like was riding on the carosuel, but that was probably more due to the fact that I had just gotten sunscreen in his eyes and he couldn't see.
And to make the day even more exciting, there was a 7.2 earthquake while we were there. We actually didn't feel it, but thought it was strange that all the pigs went crazy all of a sudden and a calf broke loose.
So I guess it was a memorable Easter 2010!