Easter

What a great Easter! Luke really got into all the "festivities" (quotes because it was so incredibly simple it probably doesn't warrent that word).





Here he is ready to dye eggs for the first time ever. Look at the excitement. I don't think he had any idea what we were about to do, but we said it would be fun so he was pumped.





Oh, the magic of egg dye. Notice I put the orange tablet in the green cup. The only ones I got right were pink and blue! The tablet color was quite different than the color it turned in the vinegar.




Our lovely eggs. It was so fun to do this with Luke. It's just such a blessing to have him enjoying these activities. I hoped and prayed motherhood would be full of these kind of experiences. And now much later and differently than I anticipated, it is and I am so thankful for every one of them.

Just a photo of Luke watching the Charlie Brown Easter special. I think Luke gave up TV for Lent. And he doesn't know Lent is over. It's so funny how everything runs in cycles with him. There are many times TV has been his passion and I have to limit and drag him away from it or he would watch it all day. Right now he is passionate about playing with his trains and could do it ALL DAY LONG. This is great, but he really wants someone to play with him. So, I'm loving it but I'm also exhausted. And for about the past two weeks, he asks to go Target everyday to get a new train. The first time has asked, we honored the request. It was the first time he'd ever requested a new toy. And we've worked for so long to get him interested in toys. If only he was passionate about some less expensive toys . . .

Easter morning with the basket. Lamar had to work on Easter so I was solo capturing it on film. I was not at all anticipating how fast Luke would grab the basket and get things out. That was a first. Last year he had no interest in his basket. He was most excited about "Big Bulgy".

In his Easter clothes. This is the first Easter he had big boy clothes. Tear. But I think he looked pretty cute. And the shirt and shorts were consignment! Thanks friends who let me preshop their consignment stuff.

In Mimi and Papa's backyard just before Easter Sunday lunch. It was nice and sunny.

After lunch Mimi hid eggs for Luke. He found them by color, as in first found all the yellow eggs, then the pink ones, then the purple ones. Easter egg hunting on the spectrum. :) But it wasn't hard to get him to break out of the pattern.

And one of Luke's new favorite activities, playing cars on the fence with Papa. I think he could do this for hours. Papa was contemplating adding some sort of edge to the wood so the cars would stay on their "track". Aren't grandparents the best?

Playing with Bulgy on Mimi and Papa's deck table

And most importantly, when I picked Luke up from Bible class on Sunday and looked at his coloring sheet, I asked him, "Where did Jesus die?" and he said, "On the cross."

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter!