Easter is
one of my mom’s favorite holidays and it is for many reasons, but among the
reasons is the fact that she gets to host it.
This year all of us kids arrived at my mom and Dave’s on Saturday. Brad, the kids and I stayed in our RV. Alyse, Jill and the Joes all stayed at the
hotel in town. It was a little
disappointing that we weren’t all staying in one place, but that went out the
window when I realized they had a pool at their hotel. Saturday night we all invaded the hotel and
had pizza for dinner. During dinner
Vincent really wanted one of the Joes to sit with him at the little table. When I tried to sit by him he told me
no. Then Grandma Dawn tried to sit by
him and he let her, but he was not happy about it and he said “I am just really
disappointed right now because I wanted cool Joe to sit with me!” After
dinner Brad, Vincent, Joel and I went swimming.
Cecilia really wanted to swim, but we didn’t let her do more than just
getting her feet wet.
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| Vincent and Daddy |
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| Vincent and Daddy |
I love to
swim, except if the water is cold. The
water at the hotel wasn’t super warm but it wasn’t freezing either. Usually Vincent is hesitant of the water but
he put his life jacket on and jumped right in and started making friends. He gets very excited lately to make new
friends. He went swimming right over to
a group of kids playing and to a grandpa and grandson that were playing and
introduced himself and started talking with them. Then every time he made a new friend he would
swim over and say “Mommy, did you see me?!”
The first time I said “Yes! And you are doing such a great job swimming!” What did he say? “No mommy!
Did you see me make a friend?”
Where did this kid come from?
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| Family Photo Easter 2013 |
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| Cecilia |
There was a
small water slide in the pool. Vincent
went down it once (with a little push from Aunt Kasi. We told her to do it!) and was not too
excited about going again. Joel wanted
to go down but kept chickening out too, so we asked Aunt Kasi to give him a
little push too. Joel acted like he didn’t
like it, but he kept wanting to go again.
After a 2-3 times down the slide Joel was having so much fun. He couldn’t get enough of the slide! Brad would help him at the top and I would
catch him (he had a life jacket on).
Then he would climb out of the pool and go again. He was not happy when it was time to leave!
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| Joe, Alyse and Dunkin |
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| Cecilia showing off her cool shades |
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| Super Vincent and his sidekick Aunt Jill |
Starting
Saturday night and continuing on all week Aunt Jill and Vincent were playing
superheroes. Aunt Jill was the sidekick
and she was doing a fine job keeping up with Vincent’s imagination!
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| Aunt Jill, Joel and cupcake #1 |
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| Vincent and Joe |
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| Grandma Pat, Kasi, Annie, Papa, and Kennidy |
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| Cecilia and Vincent on the trampoline...he was retrieving her for me! |
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| Joel jumping! |
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| They all had fun on the trampoline, but did not like when Mommy jumped with them. |
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| Crazies! |
Easter was a
little more relaxed this year. It was
the first year we didn’t do a craft or an adult scavenger hunt. It was a nice change, although it would have
been fun to do one of the activities. We still had the egg hunt and both Joel and
Vincent had a lot of fun looking for eggs and found quite a few. The fact that Brad helped hide the eggs and
was helping the boys find the eggs was helpful. Cecilia didn’t care about the eggs, she liked
the potbellied pig!
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| One of many group pictures on my camera |
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| A color version |
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| Joel on the hunt for eggs |
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| Joel looking for eggs |
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| He found one! |
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| Brad helping the boys |
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| Joe, Alyse and Annie risking their lives for eggs |
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| Vincent and his bag of eggs |
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| Hello piggy! |
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| Come back! I like you! |
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| Mommy, are you seeing this? |
Kennidy
spent a lot of time on Saturday and Sunday making delicious desserts for
everyone. They were delicious! The problem was that she made cupcakes,
really wonderful cupcakes, and they were all at Joel’s eye level. Joel has a cupcake problem…he will eat all of
them! He tried to eat most of them after
7-8 cupcakes he was cut off. The sugar
crash was not pretty! I am thinking
about suggesting a ban on cupcakes until Joel can get over his cupcake
addiction, or at least hiding them so he can’t find them.
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| Excuse me, but who are you? |
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| She really loved the pig and wasn't scared at all! |
The kids had
a lot of fun camping at Grandma Dawn and Papa Razzi’s house! They were not very happy about having to
leave.
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| Hello piggy! |
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| Cecilia and the pig |
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| Heading home! |
