Sunday, April 8, 2012

Easter Stuff 2012

Apparently I was a bit snap-happy this week, because I've seen the Easter blog posts of a few of my friends already, and somehow they all managed to include about 3 photos that perfectly captured the essence of their day.
Also, I think we had an Easter theme at our house this year. Do a dress, a headband, and two books from the Easter Bunny qualify as a theme? If so, then we had a Paris theme. Which makes me laugh, because I like to think there is a family with young children over in France who just had a Chicago themed Easter. (Yeah, I know there's not, but I can pretend, okay?)
We had a fantastic day that was so much more relaxed than last year that I think I'm giving myself the most-improved award in the category of less uptight mothering.  

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World's Softest Bunny!
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Indoor hunt over. Ready for the outdoor hunt with our upstairs neighbor, Chethan. 
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June, our resident sugar fiend, went for all the plastic eggs that the neighbor put M&M's in.  Georgia hunted only the real eggs knowing that she can't eat M&M's.
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Our amazingly crafty and artistic babysitter made the girls' headbands, and then I added the black puffy paint and French flag details. 
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Holy Covenant on Easter

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I really admire people who never make their children pose for pictures or say "cheese" and instead capture life as it happens.  Which is why today I made sure to just let events unfold and photograph our children where they always are anyway:  hugging and smiling in front of tulips. 

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Okay, this is more like it:
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Bon nuit!

4 comments:

Karen said...

Très belles photos! :)

Maggie said...

Love it! The kids look adorable.

Danni said...

Those are fantastic photos!

Danni said...

Those are fantastic photos!