Just for Fun!

Finger painting mess

Pasta playtime

Digging in the sand

Sand fun

Dress-up time at Avery's house

Strawberry grin

Sydney and Lilyanne

Cheesin' it up

Sweet girl!

Happy Easter

Last year our Easter was fairly quiet and very different compared to this year.  Last year, Sydney was less than a week out from having her surgery and was still trying to get used to having both hands bandaged and rendered basically useless to her.  She got an Easter basket, but there wasn't an egg hunt since she wasn't mobile or wouldn't have really understood it.

Easter 2011

This year, though, was a different story altogether.  We started off with a visit to Nana and Grampa's house the day before Easter.  Grampa was busy working because it was tax season, but he was able to get away for a bit to visit with Sydney.  The Easter Bunny paid a visit to Nana and Grampa's plus she got to play with an old toy that I grew up playing with as well... an ice cream truck!  Sydney loved her visit with Nana and Grampa!

Ice cream truck circa 1977ish

What's in here??

Sydney and Nana

Sydney and Grampa

Peekin'

On Easter morning, Sydney had an Easter egg hunt at home and also played with her haul from the Easter Bunny.  She very quickly figured out that there were M&Ms in the eggs which made the hunt highly enticing!

Playing with her Easter toys

Hunting eggs!

"Open it!"

Delicious!

Messy mouth!

We also went to visit her great-grandmother for an Easter lunch.  Sydney had a blast doing another Easter egg hunt, blowing bubbles, and even went for a wheelbarrow ride!  She had so much fun hunting the eggs outside that we had to "re-hide" several.

Sydney and Mommy

Hunting again!

Look what I found!

Hunting with Daddy

Riding in the wheelbarrow

Bubbles with MeMe!

Love my Uncle Brent!

Easter "Eggstravaganza"

A local park holds an annual Spring "Eggstravaganza", so we packed Sydney up and had a blast!  We went last year as well, and what a difference a year makes!  It's hard to believe that last year when we went, it was just a few days before her surgery.  (You can see her fused fingers if you look closely)

Easter 2011

Last year we pretty much just walked around for a bit and had Sydney's picture taken with the Easter bunny.  This year, super different story!  Sydney was really into looking at all the exhibits and even sat on a tractor.  Chick-fil-a had a cow there and Sydney even let the cow hold her for a picture.  In fact, when we got home, the cow is what she talked about the most.  She kept saying, "Cow hold you" (meaning a cow held her).  We waited in line to see the Easter Bunny; I would have wondered about what her reaction would be, but she went so easily to the cow I wasn't worried.  She did scream out "Easter Bunny, see him" about 100 times while we waited, but I think that's funny!  She sat in the Easter Bunny's lap easily, although I never could quite get a smile out of her. 

"Cow hold you" :)

Sitting with the Easter Bunny

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Driving a tractor!

They also had an egg hunt, separated up by age group.  Sydney participated in the 2 and under group...which was the last group to go.  At first I wasn't sure why they didn't let all the kids go at the same time since they were all in different areas, but the older kids got their eggs so quickly it didn't even matter (ha!).  Sydney got the idea pretty quickly about what she was supposed to do, but there were so many people she only got four eggs (which, by the way, she called "Easter Bunny eggs").  I figured this was a good warm up for when the Easter Bunny visits our house.  She also loved looking in the eggs to see the candy hidden inside.  Here are some of my favorite pictures we took of her!

Lots of eggs!





I got some eggs!

Yay!!!

Sweet baby girl!

Candy!