Happy Easter

I LOVE General Conference weekend.  I get to sit around all weekend, and not feel guilty.  My kids tear the house apart, and I just sit and ignore it.  It's actually quite refreshing.  This year, it just happened to coincide with Easter, which makes the weekend even better.  We've been trying to talk to the boys about the importance of Easter and what it means.  Since Sister Golding passed away, Blurbles is obsessed with death.  We had a friend over the other day.  She said the prayer for lunch, and prayed that everyone would "get better" (apparently there has been some sickness in her house).  When the prayer was over, Blurbles responded, "when you die, you feel better."  Great.  Anyway, it has been kind of helpful that he is interested in death, because it helps in explaining the resurrection.  We had a lesson on it last week for Family Home Evening, and you're never really sure if they are catching on, but last night, Blurbles prayed about Easter, and thanked Heavenly Father, "that Jesus died so I can live with you again."  He also said, "Thank you that we can be resurrected when we get older."  I thought that was sweet.  I told Blurbles that I was so happy that he remembered why we celebrate Easter and gave him a hug for his nice prayer.  This prompted Lil' N to offer a second bedside prayer.  He started praying for Easter to come.  And that the Easter Bunny would come and bring him stuff, and, "help me not to make right choices."  Hmmmm...I guess that explains all the wrong choice making of late.  The huge, pink & orange bunny shown above was given to us by our friendly neighbor yesterday.  We couldn't resist the insertion of this mammoth mutant into our daily festivities (although he might be "hopping away" in the middle of the night in the next few days).

But, as I have blogged previously (see "Santa" posting in December), I still love the other parts of the holiday. So, the boys woke up to Easter baskets.  The big hit was the "dragon eggs".  We did the dinosaur eggs last year, and this year they had dragon eggs, so we were able to get out our old volcano and drop the "dragon egg" and watch it erupt, leaving the remains of a dragon.  When it came Blurbles' turn, Blurbles was SOOO excited for his dragon.  He kept saying, "Wait, it's not a dragon!"  TPM and I laughed and just responded that of course it was a dragon.  The packaging said, "dragon eggs."  But, when the eggs was done fizzling, there was a hairy viking.  Blurbles was right - this was no dragon.  That was a little disappointing (I'll be returning the hairy viking tomorrow); but luckily, each of the other boys had dragons in their eggs, and quickly lost interest in their dragons, and so Blurbles was able to play with theirs. 

TPM and Squeakers spent most of the morning working on a Lego car.  Squeakers is getting better and better at his Legos.  It was fun to watch TPM display such immense patience through the whole process.  I would have gone crazy (TPM must have put on a pretty good front because his sanity was seriously teetering on the brink numerous times).  It's incredibly tedious, especially with Squeakers at the helm. Once the masterpiece was complete, The Pea was thrilled that they had made a car for him and preceded to drop it all over the floor—which gave TPM more time to practice his waning patience.  Ahhhh....

Bug and Blurbles played with their Pokemon mountain all morning and Lil' N carried around his ladybug and looked around the house for eggs (they were hidden all over).  The Pea just tried to steal Squeakers' car all weekend and cram as much candy in his mouth as he could (at one point the car was unceremoniously extracted from his chocolatey paws—TPM refused to even look at the car at this point for fear of having to be "committed").  Also, we managed to make it to two birthday parties; which my boys thoroughly enjoyed.  It will probably take about a week to come down from the sugar high our boys have indulged over the past 3 days.

All in all, it amounted to a pretty lovely Easter weekend.