1st Easter with our Breeze

It was Abrielle's first Easter!

Her 1st birthday is rapidly sneaking up on me, and I can tell this because I keep thinking "wow, it's been a year since last Easter when she was born 2 weeks later." It's crazy.

Anyway, our first Easter as a family of five didn't exactly pan out the way we had planned. The plan had been to join Aunt Lisi, Uncle Nate, and beloved cousins at their house with everybody else. My girls and I ended up sick though. Not to mention, Dan had to work late this morning and didn't get home until lunchtime today. He was so bummed to not get to see them when they saw their baskets from the Easter bunny this morning. But, they called him right away and told him all about their exciting surprises. 'Princess and the Frog' was a big one, and I am excited to watch it in its entirety by myself one of these nights. They loved what they saw this afternoon though, and think Prince Naveen is hilarious.

We were quite the bedraggled parade that walked to Redner's this morning. Girlies insisted on wearing their Easter dresses regardless of the fact that we were stuck here at home, and they looked so cute walking to the store in dresses and flip flops. Not to be outdone, Abrie was in a beautiful little Easter dress with a huge scratch on her forehead from taking a dive into the street yesterday. I don't know if it's from not feeling well or what, but her recent thing is to have mini-tantrums and she likes to throw herself forward and into the carpet. Well, she did it yesterday while sitting on the sidewalk, but she didn't have the soft carpet to cushion the blow. It didn't break the skin and bleed, but instead the blood vessels underneath all popped immediately and she had a lovely quarter-sized mark right in the middle of her forehead.

I was so bummed that we couldn't spend Easter with family the way they had looked forward to, and my back-up plan was to go to the museum for their Easter egg hunt. But, with Dan having to stay late at work, that plan also failed. I decided to hide eggs for the three (well, two) of them by ourselves this afternoon. So, that was nice for them. And, Nene and Grampa did stop by when we had returned from Redner's. Nene has now introduced them to the world of Zhu Zhu pets (or however you spell them). They are adorable, but I refuse to get sucked into spending money on their accessories! What they have will be enough in terms of Zhu Zhu! They had a blast playing with them all together though. We made our own little pork dinner here, so all in all, it was a nice, quiet Easter.