Aahhhh Easter Weekend

Today we went to church at BWC and headed for Kurt and Christine's for dinner. Yummy! They had an egg hunt for the kids. Allen carried David's basket and collected his empty easter eggs. Whenever David stumbled upon an egg, he would immediately break it open and look inside for the candy. It was pretty cute to see Allen walking around with a little green basket too ;).

After the egg hunt Allen and David were playing in the sandbox. Christine's nephew, Wyatt (4 yrs) was also there. Allen relayed their conversation to me:

Wyatt: Sit down.
David: Why?
Wyatt: Because.
Wyatt: Don't take that out!
David: Why?
Wyatt: Because.
Wyatt: Don't do that!
David: Why?
Wyatt: Because.

I had no idea that at 17 months David would be asking, "why?" to almost everything he was asked to do. On the other hand, he does catch on quick (even Grandpa and Grandma Stoops noticed) that David does say "thanks" or "thank you."

We had pizza for supper, and as I was cutting it into slices Allen was helping David into his chair. Allen was telling David that we were having pizza for supper and that I was cutting it and David's reply was "hurry up!" Sure glad that boy likes pizza-in our family it's a staple!

Saturday was a nice day! We all went into town for a quick shopping trip and came home. I worked at getting a dessert ready for Sunday dinner at Allen's brother's house and Allen and David played all over the house and yard. When the boys came back in the house, I thought it might be a good time to try dying hard boiled eggs with David. I set out the cups for the dye, deciding to keep it simple and do only two colors. I filled one of the containers with one cup of water, added three tablespoons of vinegar, set it on the island and proceeded to do the same with another cup. While my back was turned, my water-loving little boy David climbed up onto the barstool and tried to "drink" the water in the egg-dye cup. Needless to say, he did not like the taste and the entire cup went over his face down his shirtless body, onto his pants and still left a lot of clean-up on the floor. at least there wasn't any dye in the cup! I managed to fill two cups and add the dye tablet but when I showed David how to put an egg in the cup he thought that meant anything could go in the cup, so he added a partially eaten granola bar, soda cracker, and a crayon. At this point we were both wet so it was a good time for Daddy to come help too--he got in on cleaning up vinegar-water and I finished dying the eggs while wet David went to play.

Later in the afternoon we took a quick trip to Sioux Falls for a "date." Grandma and Grandpa Stoops took care of both kids while Allen and I went to see "The Blind Side." When we got back to Stoops' to pick the kids up, Grandpa was outside cleaning up bubble-blowing stuff. David was still holding a bubble pipe and was repeating, "bubbles, bubbles!" We loaded up and headed home, and around 8:00 p.m. David fell asleep. Allen managed to carry him in the house and put him in his crib, bubble-soap clothes and all. David slept until 5:30 a.m. before he wanted a "dink" and then went back to sleep until 8:30. Another Easter blessing!