Easter

We spent the weekend at my in-laws' house in New Jersey. Our weekend would be best described through pictures.

Here is baby Doodle collecting plastic eggs filled with jelly beans (which I have been enjoying) at the town-run Easter egg hunt on Saturday. The 0-3 year old hunt consists of about a hundred eggs scattered across the tennis courts of the community park. Baby Doodle collected seven eggs in his bucket.

The town brought two fire engines and an ambulance to the Easter festivities. Here BD is sitting in the ambulance.

Here he is standing on the fire engine with yards of hose above him. He was a little overwhelmed by the number of people and cool things to look at, including a man dressed as a dalmation complete with a fire hat, gloves and coat. Baby Doodle thought he was the most memorable part of our entire weekend. He gave him five during the egg hunt. Now when you ask him what he did for Easter he says, "saw giant fire dog wearing mittens and fire hat."

After the Easter egg hunt we went to Point Pleasant for their once a year discounted tickets sale. My in-laws bought baby Doodle 280 tickets (they don't expire) at half price for the rides on the Point Pleasant boardwalk. The rides were up and running for the weekend. Baby Doodle, though he was frightened of the carousel the first time he rode one, loved the ride and was looking on at the other rides he wanted to go on when this one was over.

I won't put pictures of every ride he went on, but this one is significant because he rode it alone. There wasn't a single moment of fear or skeptisim. I have to admit I got a little misty eyed watching my boy ride all by himself. What can I say that's what motherhood has done to me.

After an attempted nap in a big boy bed baby Doodle had to "sleep" in the too-small-for-him pack and play. He talked to himself for a little while, then cried for me to come get him. Here he is coloring eggs for the first time. He dropped them into the ceramic mugs without caution for their fragile shells. All of them were cracked and the egg salad we're working our way through is pastel. He enjoyed himself though. He found his eggs hidden around the house when he woke up the next morning.

Donning his new sunglasses from the Easter Bunny. The tie he's wearing I made from one of Mr. D's old ties. He was dressed in his church clothes when he woke up because he had soaked his pajamas, sleep sack and sheets. He loved the tie and wore it for the whole day.