Current mood: excited
Phew what a day!!!! Adrian's cold has gotten worse and he has all the symptoms Mia had so its official he caught her cold! haha But since he was calling in half day today we decided to make the trip to the mall to have Mia meet the Easter Bunny for the first time. The only place that still had the Bunny at the mall was the Riverside Mall near the hospital where she was born!
So I packed up her pretty pink Easter dress and we headed off to Riverside (30min drive). It was really warm out today so I had her dressed in a onesie and some pants for the trip since I figured wearing that itchy dress can't be comfy in the car. Once we got there we parked in a parking structure and managed to change her into her pink puffy dress in the back seat (not an easy task!) we put her in her stroller and off to the Bunny we go!
It wasn't to packed (another reason why we wanted to do it during the weekday) only about 4 people ahead of us. I fussed with her hair, and tried to get her bow just right. There was alittle girl probably around the age of 4-5yrs in front of us. She instantly fell in love with Mia. She kept telling her Mom "Look Mommy a baby!!" "Shes pretty! look at her bow!" she reached out and tried to touch Mia's arm and hand. The whole time we were in line the little girl kept trying to make friends with Mia haha. We watched each baby one by one be brought up to the Easter Bunny almost like a sacrifical offering. Once they were placed on his knee they screamed out in horror!!! Two Moms literally said "forget it!" resuced their little ones and took off without any pictures haha. Then the little girl (Mia's new friend) went up there. Mia was becoming squirmy by this time and wanted to be put down. So Adrian put her down on the ground and right away she made a mad dash (crawling) towards the Bunny! We had to grab her so she wouldn't get in that other girls picture! haha Then it was her turn!!
I brought her over to the Bunny as Adrian stood back with our digital camera. We weren't sure how she would react to the Mosterous Bunny with Pink Cheeks (Yea it was kind of scary looking even to us!) but she instantly took a shine to him! She smiled and laughed as he bounced her. The picture lady finally got ready but as soon as we took her attention away from the bunny she refused to smile. She just stared. All three of us (Me, Adrian and the picture lady) did everything we could to make her laugh or smile but she refused. However, once the bunny looked down at her or she looked at him she would smile BIG and laugh. We did EVERYTHING we could to make her smile for the camera but again once she stopped looking at the bunny she stopped smiling. We literally took about 21 pictures.. only to finally choose one semi-decent picture. She was standing up on his knee just staring. Oh well.... at least she didn't cry. Then she started grabbed his face!!!! She started pulling on his pink whiskers and got a huge kick out of this. We all were laughing then it was time to say byebye to the Easter Bunny. Adrian grabbed her and told her to give him a kissy and she leaned over, took her fingers out of her mouth and gave the bunny a BIG kissy! PRICE-LESS!!!! Unfortunately, both Daddy and Mama were so caught up in the whole moment we didn't take any pictures of videos of this. BUMMER!!! I know! but it was really cute. After saying bye we bought a picture and that was that. I am going to have Adrian scan it tonight so I can post it. Its cute!
After the Easter Bunny picture we decided to take a small look around the mall to see if we could find any baptism dresses for her. However, before we could go shopping I wanted to get Mia out of that hot itchy dress. So we went to JC Penny (the closest store) I didn't want to take her in the nasty bathroom to change her so I took her to a changing room instead. She got a HUGE kick out of watching herself in the full lenghth mirror and talked and laughed at herself while I changed her. I got her dressed back in her onesie and pants and we were good to go. We shopped at a few stores but didn't buy or find anything good. Eventually Daddy started really feeling worse so we decided to go home.
I drove us home but dropped Mia and Daddy off while I did some shopping at Super Target for some stuff for dinner (cooking chicken soup for Adrian) and some cold meds as well. Once I got home Mia chugged down 10oz!!!!! of formula and went off to bed. Wow.. poor thing was so beat from the busy day and not taking a nap since noon the she went right to sleep. No bath nothing!
Well we definately had fun. I am kind of bummed we didn't take many pics or videos to share but at least we have some golden memories! The day Mia met the Easter Bunny!!
