Our Lives With Twins Plus One: Easter Weekend

Friday evening I took the kids to meet the Easter bunny at the mall. My Mom met me there and helped me attempt a photo with the bunny. We got all the way to the front and the bunny had to take a break. Luckily he was only gone for 5 minutes and no one freaked out too much. Claire was excited to sit on the bunny's lap. Cate was cautious but went along with everything. Matthew? Not so much. He first decided to try and play in the mulch and trees that were part of the Easter display. I put him back on the bench next to the bunny. The photographer was trying to get everyone to smile. I'm thinking: "Just take the photo, lady, it's not going to get much better than this". Matthew hops down off the bench again, this time he's removing patio bricks from the display. I again pick him up and place him on the bench next to the bunny. It's not that he's afraid of the bunny, it's just that he's never able to get out of the stroller in a store or mall so when I do let him loose he just goes buck wild. So the photo lady finally snaps a few photos, I pick one as I'm loading a (kicking a screaming) twin back into the stroller. Everyone finally settles back down as I'm paying and we're out of there. Whew. Maybe this will be easier next year. Here's the result :0

On Saturday we took the kids to an egg hunt at a park near our house. They had a barnyard show before the hunt so the kids checked out some of the baby animals. Claire really liked the baby cow. Matthew was more interested in the pirate ship play structure that was near the egg hunt area. Cate was happy to hang out in her carrier. Finally, it was show time. We lined up around the edges of the egg hunt area and waited, and waited and waited for the whistle to blow. Clearly the people organizing this activity do not have children of their own or they would know to start on time. We were entertained for a minute by an over-zealous 4 year old that ran out and started collecting eggs before the siren went off. His dad chased after him scooped him up and accidentally knocked off one of his kid's shoes. The dad set the kid down to get the shoe and the kid ran from him again. They each fell down a few times and everyone watching received a bit of comic relief. The siren finally blew and the egg hunt lasted approximately 3 point 4 seconds! It was over so fast! Jeremy ran after Matthew who picked up about 6 eggs. They encountered a little boy that didn't get any so they gave him a few of Matthew's. Claire and I stayed near the edge and picked up about 7 eggs that the other kids didn't want because they had stickers instead of candy in them. Good thing Claire seems to like stickers more than she likes candy!

Daddy and the Twins heading for the Egg Hunt

Baby Cate loves the camera

Meeting the Easter bunny

Claire loved the baby cow

Checking out Farmer John's show

Baby Cate wonders why she can't hunt eggs yet...

Waiting for the madness to start!

Claire looking for the best eggs

Matthew got so excited he took a tumble trying to get his first egg.

Daddy was a good basket holder for Matthew

Claire adding to her egg collection

Egg hunting chaos!!!!

Later that afternoon our Multiples group held their annual party so we had more Easter egg fun! By now the twins were really getting the hang of the egg hunting game and had figured out that the eggs hold candy and they would get a treat each time they found one. Matthew kept bringing me his egg and saying "more chocolate???" Claire found an egg that looked like a hippo and she loved it! She lost it somewhere along the way and kept saying. "I lost it! I lost it, hippo!" (Luckily the Easter bunny brought her some new things the next day and she forgot about the hippo). They enjoyed playing outside and checking out the bubble machine, too! Although Matthew got a little carried away and almost knocked over the bubble machine.

Claire has the egg hunting technique down!

Matthew was trying to open each egg.

Claire and her hippo!

Matthew inspecting his treasures

Claire wanted to "ride on the dolphin"

The Easter bunny brought everyone a basket on Sunday. The twins liked their new treasures. Claire got a pink beanie baby Flamingo. First she was calling it "Bingo" then "Mingo". She wanted to show everyone her "Mingo"! Matthew got a stuffed cow that he was making "Moo" everywhere. They each got a new pair of sunglasses and some big kid underwear that we will hopefully put to good use at the end of the summer (I don't want to push that issue). They also each got a set of plastic golf clubs with a little cart and golf balls. They enjoyed carrying around their baskets and filling them with toys. We went to meet my Mom and my Grandparents for church. The kids were pretty good, but the church didn't have a cry room so I'm sure we annoyed everyone within a 10 foot radius of us. After church we all went to breakfast and then headed back home. Since the kids took a nap on the way home I decided to drop Jeremy off at home and head to the grocery store (not something I like to do on holidays but it's hard to grocery shop when I work full time and have 3 kids). After the grocery store we played outside for the rest of the afternoon. The kids enjoyed playing with their new golf clubs. Jeremy decided to give them an egg hunt in the backyard that was a little less intense than the other few that we had been to. They had fun picking up the eggs at their leisure! Matthew kept bringing me each egg he found and saying "I need more chocolate. Help you?" Asking me to help him open the eggs and get the Reese's pieces inside. We didn't get a ton of projects done around the house this weekend but the kids had fun and it was nice to just relax and do some fun activities.