Current mood: happy
Happy Easter Everyone! Today we celebrated Mia's first Easter Holiday and it was TONS of fun!
We started off the day painting Easter Eggs. I dressed her up in one of Daddy's old black shirts (it looked like a dress on her!) so she wouldn't get any Easter dye on her jammies. I wasn't sure what we were in for, so I prepared for the worst! haha I got her high chair set up at the kitchen table, and laid old newpaper all around. I gave her an egg to hold, I got the dye ready all while Daddy was there taking pictures and videos. She liked holding the white egg and dispite all the prior practice Daddy was doing with her to get her to put eggs in a bucket, she didn't want to let go of that egg! Eventually she blopped the egg into the pink dye and it splashed EVERYWHERE! I quickly cleaned up everything and realized that was the first and last egg she will be plopping into dye haha I let her play with the other eggs while Daddy and I colored the rest. Oh wait I just remembered I did let her color one last egg. This time I put the dye into a big bowl in hopes it would be easier and cleaner for Mia to dump the egg in the dye.. WRONG! once she put it in the bowl it splashed and again there was a big mess! Sigh...haha it was still fun anyways. Eventually she got bored and wanted down. She was tired and wanted a nap which was good because the Easter Bunny had not hit out house yet.
We had her Easter basket all ready with all kinds of goodies for her ranging from a little brown bunny, googlie eye'd chick filled with jelly beans, a table top spinning toy, a stage 3 baby food jar "fruit medley", chocolates to share with Mama and Daddy, and much more. We waited for her to wake up from her nap and we went into her room and placed the basket in the middle of her floor for her to crawl to and find. We put her on the opposite side of the room so she could crawl to her goodie basket but she just sat there. I think she knew something was going on since Mama and Daddy were both in the room encouraging her to crawl around. After TONS of coaxing she finally crawled to her basket but only after we dumped it on the floor for her. As soon as she got to her basket she got a huge kick out of taking out the toys, looking at them and munching on the candy wrappers. We even treated her to her first taste of chocolate! Only a couple of licks but she liked it. It was a kitkat. After playing with her goodies it was time to hunt Easter Eggs!
I took all of her toys out of her octogan and placed tiny plastic eggs, filled with baby snacks, around the ground for her to crawl to and find. Daddy brought her down and I put on her pretty pink puffy Easter dress. I put her in the octogan and right away she went for her first egg. A little pink one. I put the basket next to her and Daddy told to her "put the egg in the basket" and she leaned over and went to put the egg in the basket but tipped over the basket before she could put it in. Awww.. then she contiuned to crawl around after eggs and then found the BIG GOLDEN EGG! YAY! In it was filled with her favorite little snacks, yogart melts. She munched on them and played with her eggs. We got a kick out of watching her and taking tons of pictures and videos. She then found one of the eggs that was dyed. I went to take some pictures of her holding it and she put it in her mouth to munch on it. When she pulled it away we realized the dye had come off and was all over her hands, mouth and lips!!! I quickly sprang up and grabbed her and ran her to the changing table. I whipped out some wippes and cleaned her hands before she could stain her dress. Then I cleaned her mouth but her lips were still green!!! I couldn't get the dye off for nothing! So she played around with Daddy in her pretty pink dress with green lips! It was then time for lunch so she got to eat her Fruit Medley she got in her Easter basket and eventually the dye came off her lips. Phew.... after playing a bit more we decided to go to a restaurant to show off her dress and of course her!
We packed up her bag and off to Red Robin we went for dinner. She sat in the highchair again like a big girl. They had balloons there so she got a pink balloon to play with. She had a ball shaking that all around and squeezing it. The waitress fell in love with her and commented how pretty she was and always made sure to talk to her whenever she came around. Mia liked the attention and would make sounds back to her, she even smiled at her!!! This was huge since she never smiles at strangers! She did good in her high chair and Daddy gave her snackies while we ate as a family. She did a whole lot better than the first time we let her sit in one of those chairs! Eventually it was time to go, and after the waitress made it a point to see her pretty little dress, we headed home.
I changed her clothes and put her in some comfy ones, and now she is taking a nap. Which sounds pretty good, I am sleepy to. This Easter has been tons of fun! I love having a little daughter, it brings so much more happiness to our holidays! I can't wait for the next one! better yet, I can't wait for her 1st birthday!!!!!
