hunt, easter, baby love & bye byes

I had all these grand ideas about the posts I was going to do about our neighborhood Easter egg hunt, Easter itself, and all our adventures with Grandpa, but alas, time and life have gotten in the way. As a result, this is going to be a super-fast post with a couple of un-edited pics. Emi and I leave tomorrow early morning to fly to DC to visit the tias (including Tia Lo here from Costa Rica) and, most especially "A" (aka my mom, Emi's MamaMama) who came up from Quito last week. A little nervous about flying with the little bug on the plane by myself again after our "adventurous" flight back from Quito, but I figure it's only an hour and she'll probably be just fine - I'll have the benadryl on hand just in case.

Saturday there was an Easter egg hunt in the neighborhood. I didn´t think it would be all that great, nor that Emilia would enjoy/be in to it at all. Was I wrong. First of all it was super well organized - Emi was in the 0-2 area and honestly, there were a bunch of eggs left over because they had put so many out. Secondly, my little retriever LOVED it - all those things to collect! The only downside was the clubhouse grounds was kind of muddy because of all the rain the night before.

basket full of eggs (each kid got to pick their own basket at the hunt - plus they had munchies and coffee for the 'rents).prying open one of her eggs.

So the Easter Bunny brought Emi something I think she's wanted for a very long time - her own baby doll. She loves the ones at ChildWatch and she's often tried to steal Kyrie's as well. Well, I finally broke down and we got her one as well as a stroller. It was instant love at first sight... started calling it "my baby" and saying the baby's name is "Emi" (sounds more like "Ami" but whatev) and has been feeding her and carrying her around ever since. Feel kind of guilty about not getting the baby a nice outfit - currently she only wears her jammies - but am hopeful "A" can make her a couple of outfits.

feeding baby some raisins for breakfast.

Easter morning photo session in the backyard. It looks beautiful back there with all the azaleas and dogwoods in bloom. Too bad someone wasn't this serene in church!