Egg Hunt and The Splash

The kindergarteners at Katie's school did an Easter egg hunt Thursday morning. Each child was asked to bring 24 fillable, plastic eggs and while the kids were in school a bunch of parents, myself included, hid the eggs on the playground. I was relieved to see that there were enough eggs to go around. Some parents just cannot afford the extras that are associated with the school. Katie had never done an Easter egg hunt before. (Bad Momma!) What is interesting is that I didn't do Easter egg hunts when I was a child, so I didn't push for Katie to participate in them. That is how traditions get passed down or avoided. Here they are, the Easter egg hunt pictures.

Waiting for the whistle so they can run like maniacs and collect eggs. 

Action Shot #1

 Action Shot #2

 In honor of the Easter egg hunt, I put Katie's hair in high ponytails so they would look like rabbit ears.

 Did you actually think there would be a roll of pictures of Katie and not one where she is mugging for the camera?

 Katie, Jiselle, Cambry and Baleigh

After the Egg hunt it was time for recess. (Pretty cushy schedule if you ask me.) A lot of the parents stayed to play with their children or to chit-chat. Here is what Katie likes to do on the playground, hang from the bars.

Fancy pose.

Good thing she wasn't yelling for help for I was way too busy with my camera.

Katie and her friend Cody. Cody is such an amiable kid. When I told him I took a picture of Katie and him, he was excited.

We have a program at home that entails Katie getting stickers on a chart if she listens to us, meaning if we don't have to tell her twice to do something. We set goals (prizes) for her to work towards. The first reward was that Rick would get the pool ready for summer.

Floating. The water was only 72 degrees but she insisted on going in the pool. I don't know how she did it. I cannot go into the pool until it is at least 92 degrees.

" I am free!"

Katie has a move where she scallops through the water like a dolphin. She jumps up, arcs into the water and comes back up. Above she is coming back up.

I like the suspended bubbles of water.
 

 Arcing out of the water before the big splash.

Cody, the neutered wonder. Yup, he finally got them cut off. He didn't seem too upset about it. However, Rick was identifying too closely and was more blue than the dog.

We didn't get Katie's pictures taken with the Easter Bunny until the day before Easter. That explains why we did not send out Easter cards. But hang on families, they are coming.

I didn't make Katie's bunny cake until Easter evening. I must say that it is the ugliest bunny cake that I have ever created. Here's a story to go along with the cake. I was waiting for the cakes to cool and had already made the butter cream frosting. I left the beaters attached to the mixer in case I would have to whirl the frosting around a few more times before decorating the cake. I was in the living room and Katie asked if she could lick the beaters. I told her that she had to wait until I was done frosting the cake. I asked her if she hadn't already licked the beaters. "No." Then I asked whether she was sure she didn't lick them because if she stole a lick that meant she was being sneaky and sneaking is lying. "No." At this point I am getting angry because despite the "No's" and shaking of the head, a dollop of white butter cream frosting clung to her nose.  Katie typically doesn't lie but she was punished for her sneakiness.

The Ugly Bunny Cake

For my blogger friends, I am frustrated with blogger. They changed something in their module to upload pictures. I can still upload all of the pictures to blogger in one action; however, I had to upload each picture one at a time to this post. UGH!! Figures it would happen when I had a slew of pictures to post.