Happy Easter!!!

We started with an Easter Egg Hunt that my nieces set up for me.

The girls were even good enough to leave a few eggs laying around for J.  S complained that she didn’t get as many as L got until I told her to be glad she hadn’t gotten as few as J.  That shut her up quick, and the each quickly gobbled up their candy.

(You will please note my fence in the background behind S.  After a year and a half, the landscape company came out and made good on their warranty and fixed it.  It’s standing straight up and down now.  You will please avert your eyes from my empty garden … no one plants around here until mid-May at the earliest, so it still looks sad.)

“Mom, there’s a funny thing in this other funny thing …”

“Yum!”

Deciding to be happy with her own basket instead of trading it for her brother’s.

I wanted to take Easter pictures in advance, because with church at 9am, Sunday morning can get hectic.  And as soon as we get home, we eat lunch, so clothes get changed or dirty.  Sadly, I’m not a very good photographer …  but here we go!

“Smile and say ‘cheese’!” gets me a pained look.

I try to pose her.  “Put your hand on the fence and lean on it …” and she couldn’t figure out how to put her back and her hand on the fence, and by time I was done positioning her, the smile had faded even more …

I tried to get her to relax and be silly so I could get a natural smile … instead she looked like she’d swallowed a bug!

But I did get this one, and I’m pleased with that.  Funny, this was the second one I took, so I could have saved myself the trouble and stopped there!

On to my next subject …

L was actually pretty good … especially when I realized that I kept thinking her mouth looked funny because of her missing tooth, not because she or I was doing something funny!

And it was on to Subject #3.  Who I first caught in that moment of “Mom just took my pacifier away, and I’m not going to be happy without it!”

Followed by the “Wide open mouth, coming to get the pacifier” picture …

And now that my mouth is sufficiently hidden, I’ll give you a dazzling smile!

… and break into tears again when you take the pacifier away to get a picture of that smile. 

A few minutes later, distracted by Hercules (seems we’re much better suited to rabbits than to dogs!), he lets me take the pacifier.  But now the lighting is just wrong.

But still, I end up with this one, which almost makes it all worth it!

Happy Easter!