Easter Week

Elijah had his first dentist appointment on Monday. He was so good! He's a little shy when he's in a new surrounding or around new people, but it makes him the perfect little patient because he doesn't move and does exactly what he's told to do. Elijah also loves to brush and floss his teeth, so he really liked the dentist giving him a brand new toothbrush and toothpaste and his very own floss. He had a lot of fun and got stickers and a balloon so he keeps asking to go back.
They gave Elijah sunglasses to block out the bright lights and head phones so he can listen to the movie he was watching while they brushed his teeth.

Monday was also the beginning of Passover. Jed is reading the Old Testament and a month earlier had read about the passover and he thought it would be fun to actually do it this year. (The dinner, not the entire week and getting rid of our yeast and breads and such). We have a friend who is Jewish and he offered to help us with it and so we had our first passover meal this year. It was a really cool event and I think it really helped us to get ready for Easter and really appreciate the Savior's role in our lives (that might be a little ironic though). Elijah tried so hard to stay up but he was so exhausted that he waited to eat his egg then put himself to bed. The egg was all that he wanted lol

A friend from church put together a playgroup with all of Elijah's and Chloe's friends, and this week's activity was an egg hunt at the park. Thursday, I took the kids and Elijah's friend, Bella. Elijah is already obsessed with eggs (he loves eggs and chickens) and so he was really excited about getting to find them. He did a really good job too. He found a bunch on his own (he started to find too many and I had him put some back for the other kids to find). Chloe had a blast finding the eggs too.  She also is so happy just having one in each hand.

 Chloe finding her first egg

 This is Elijah with his friend Bella. If I could set up an arranged marriage, I'd be setting these two up. They are so cute together and they play really well together. He always gets so excited to play with her.

Saturday, Bella and her older brother, Ethan, came over and we dyed eggs with them. All of the kids had fun coloring them. Chloe got a bit overly excited and cracked a few of them. They're eggs still turned out really cute and very colorful.

Easter morning, Elijah was so excited to see what the Easter Bunny brought him. I felt a little bad though, because Elijah wanted to actually meet the Easter Bunny. (I've tried taking him the past few years and he screamed and cried and with Chloe's reaction to Santa, I thought next year might be better to try again)

I have been looking forward to Easter for a couple of weeks. The main reason was because I actually made Chloe's Easter dress. I have a bunch of fabric left over from the various parties and since we're moving Jed wanted me to do something with it. Plus, why should I spend $20 on a dress when I can make it for free? This was my first dress that I've ever made (I made a few more right after this one), but I was really excited with how it turned out. And of course, I had to make her a headband to go with it...a little over the top, but I wouldn't have it any other way. lol :) I also made Elijah a bow tie to match (I was going to make him a suit but ran out of time) but he didn't want to keep his tie on long enough to get his picture taken. (You can go to my other blog if you want the tutorials for them.)

It was such a beautiful spring day and it was a great and spiritually uplifting too... the perfect Easter Sunday. We had a nice day at church where Elijah and Chloe got to participate in an egg hunt with nursery and then we went to Grandma's house for another egg hunt with Elena and Devin and spent the rest of the evening with family and friends. By Sunday, Chloe was getting really good at finding eggs too. She found a few of them on her own and she even knew to put them in her little basket. She just spent most of her time getting one or two eggs and then put them back then collect them again.

I hope everyone had a fun Easter as well. :)