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This year Easter came really early, on April 8. As always, we found time to celebrate and have fun.

We had an early eggs hunt the last weekend of March at the YMCA. We met Alyce, his gym buddy, and they had a lot of fun sliding and jumping on the bouncies and playing on the playground.

Keegan and Alyce watched Alyce’s sister Betty collecting eggs. They were cheering for her from the sidelines, holding hands.

Then it was finally time for their eggs hunt. Keegan and Alyce were ready. For the first time, Keegan actually jumped right in and started collecting a lot of eggs…

…then “tragedy” struck. Somehow (according to Keegan a big kid run into him), Keegan stumbled and fell, spilling all his eggs on the ground. Of course he immediately started crying, while all the other kids kept on picking up his eggs. Poor sweetie. I went to help him and comfort him, and grabbed some eggs to put back in his basket: after all, it did not matter how many eggs you got, you still received the same goodie bag. The YMCA attendant was very nice and helped him gather more eggs, and then one mom gave him one of the special eggs, that provide an extra prize. I guess her daughter got two, so she shared one with Keegan, since he was so upset. It was so sweet of her…it really touched me.

So, he dried out his tears, collected his prizes and went back playing. How fun.

The following week was spring break, but fortunately Keegan’s school stayed open. We did have a play date with Alyce, though. We went to her house to do some eggs coloring and playing. It was fun. The kids had fun, and the adults enjoyed quiet time and a nice glass of wine. Keegan even got to share a delicious dinner of mac and cheese and chicken nuggets.

Incredibly, turns out that Keegan likes hard boiled eggs, a lot, and he gobbled 2 the next day, and 4 more within the same week. Well, this is an easy lunch to make.

The same week, there were more Easter celebrations at school. On Thursday, the Easter bunny itself came to visit and to do magic tricks, and Keegan was one of his assistants (I hope to get some pictures to post from school). The kids also baked Easter cookies and Keegan helped decorating them.

On Friday, they kids had an egg hunt, after painting and decorating hard boiled eggs we had provided. Keegan sent home a nice note he decorated himself to remind us.

The weekend was pretty mellow. We did not make too many plans: Matt was not feeling well, so we took it easy. I took Keegan to the gym and then he wanted to go straight home to play. He was simply not interested in the Clairemont Easter celebration, since he has already seen the Easter bunny at school.

So, when we got home, we did some more eggs coloring.

Keegan and I created a few, short lived masterpieces: we ate right at lunch time.

I spent Saturday evening filling eggs and preparing the basket. Just like last year, most eggs included some little surprises and very little candy.

On Sunday morning, after I woke up from my nap, it was eggs hunt time!. We placed the eggs in the yard, and this year we hid some of them a little more, but they were still very easy to find.

check out the big green one under the plant

what a bootie…

We had a few small eggs for his yellow basket, a large Easter basket with surprises and a few over sized eggs. It was fun to watch. He tore through all of it really quickly. He was particularly happy to get some new cars — Nigel, Shu Sudoroki and Grem, as well as a smaller Francesco and another lemon—new books and the Cars soaps.

While Keegan ate some candy, he did overdo it, and we all avoided the sugar rush. And after tasting some plain chocolate (and the good kind, straight from Italy) he affirmed that “chocolate is not really my favorite. It does not feel good in my tummy”. Oh darn, this means more chocolate for us. (-:

We called and Skyped with my parents and Keegan’s little cousins, and he proudly showed off all his new things, and we spent the rest of the day at home, playing with the new toys and reading  the new books. We even tested out our new tent, since we were planning on going camping the following weekend (which did not happen, since it was storming). Keegan had a lot of fun playing in his side of the tent. Hopefully we can reschedule soon.

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