Easter Number 2

Dear Henry, 
Last Easter you didn't do too much.  You were just a month old so I wasn't expectin' ya to do too much...but this year you had your first introduction to finding eggs and eatin' big.
Grandma LaJean gets the house all ready; covered in bunnies, eggs and full Easter baskets.  
While waiting for the food to finish Grandma Lajean took you for a walk around the block.  I met you as you made it back and you were chit chatting, clearly ready for a nap!  You took a short one, too hard to sleep with such activity around you.

Next we went to the backyard because Grandma LaJean had hidden eggs all over the yard.  
We each had one special egg with our first initial.  Inside were coins.  Your egg had a very special coin.  Great Grandma Hazel put a silver dollar in it that was one that your Great Grandpa Carl had carried.  He passed away when your Grandma LaJean was just a little girl.  He drove a fuel truck and one day at the end of his route he had just dropped off the extra fuel to a family in need.  His truck stalled on the train tracks.  His truck was hit by a train.  As you can imagine how hard this was from Grandma LJ and Great Grandma Hazel.  So you see this coin being handed on to you is extremely special.  What an honor.  I thought it was so thoughtful of Great Grandma Hazel to share that piece of her love with you.

You did pretty great on the egg hunt.  You seemed better at spotting the eggs up high.  You would point until we caught on that you'd found one. 

casserole, and hot chocolate, for real!  For dessert, yes, I said dessert she made cup cakes and decorated them like a mama bunny surrounded by her babies.  Let's just say we ate our dessert the next day we were so full!  You enjoyed the french toast the most.  

Then it was time to dig into your Easter basket. You bit into a malted milk ball and loved it.  You had the tell tale chalky white around your lips and you continuously tried sneaky ways to get another.  You gave such a gasp and wide eyes when you pulled out a DVD of the Velveteen Rabbit you'd think you'd seen it 100 times.  After a marshmallow peep and playing with your little running hamster your aunties set to teaching you piano.  It was really sweet.  Auntie Krispie is not a pianist but you both certainly tried to fake a little Jerry Lee Lewis style.  We begged a reluctant Auntie Carrie to play something but then she finally relented.  So much fun! and it was cute to see them playing together.  This weekend they will celebrate 5 years!

After a full day already and a refreshing quick nap we loaded into the mini van and went to see how Crappaw was recovering and to say hi to Grandma P.  Crappaw was still in bed from hip surgery so we went for a short sunny walk and hung out a while and headed home.  While this was a funky year for holidays Peep I assure you that Grandma P and Crappaw celebrate too and next year will be different.  I certainly hope so...we lost Great Aunt Judy at Christmas and Crappaw was recovering...we don't need anything like that again any time soon!  
Love, Mommy