Easter Time
After a super early Easter last year, in March, this year Easter landed at the end of April. Ironically, even with more time, we did not really do much or participated in many activities. Keegan did not show any interest in public egg hunts, and I obviously did not press the issue.
We did get together with his friends Alyce and Betty for some egg coloring, but even that activity was completed pretty quickly.
On Easter week, or Holy week if you are religious, there was another kind of spectacular event; a full lunar eclipse was visible from the clear sky above San Diego, and a special one to boot: the “blood moon”, which happens when the eclipsed moon appears read due to the sunsets and sunrises across the globe.. The previous week we went to a special event at the Science Museum where we watched a planetarium show previewing the eclipse. We were all pretty excited about it. It was unfortunately happening in the middle of the night, but we set up the alarm. As it happens, the alarm didn’t go off, but I woke up around 1.30, just in time for seeing the moon getting out of totality. It was still an amazing event. We woke Keegan up, and enjoyed the view.
best image from our deck, with my crappy camera
awesome photo from Jack Brauer
As far as Easter is concerned, Keegan kept on going back and forth on believing and not believing on the Easter bunny. Bottom line, I think he knows there is not such a thing as the Easter bunny, but he likes to believe in it anyway. How do I know? He asked US to make some money eggs for him to find.
On Easter morning, Keegan actually work up at 5.30…and went to the bathroom (miraculous!), but then got back to bed, so we could sleep another hour. Matt hid the eggs in the yard, and by 6.30 am the hunt began. Well, not so much of a hunt, but more of a collection. It did not matter: Keegan loved it. In a few minutes he filled his basket, collected three huge eggs and found his Easter basket.
We brought the loot inside, carefully peeling slugs of all sizes off the eggs…Keegan opened all his eggs to find plenty candies, $1.50 in quarters, a plane and a truck. Candies included hand-made lego chocolate which, by the way, did not elicit such an amazing response and will be therefore archived in the “not worth the effort” category. The basket was also well received, with three new movies, a drawing book, some reading books, and especially two Hot Wheel track extensions. There was also a chocolate egg that came straight from Italy. Thank you nonna!
After all that, Keegan settled in to watch one of the new movies, while Matt and I went to sleep. We instructed him to wake us up in two hours, and he was allowed to start watching a second movie if he had time left. Sure enough, three hours passed, and we had not heard from him (incredibly!). Well, he “forgot” to look at the time, and “accidentally” watched two full movies. I guess some time you have to compromise your principles a little: we were so happy to be able to sleep three extra hours that we simply made it an Easter exception.
We had a great brunch, courtesy of our personal chef Matt. My favorite part were the cornbread eggs in different colors. Keegan had the idea to add food coloring to them. Good idea! Everything was delicious.
The afternoon was quiet, or as quiet as it can be. Keegan built a ramp for his car, and with the new extension he could actually launch them from the living room to the sun room. I relaxed outside on the deck. We did did errands and homework (and no, this was not quiet). We closed off the day with dinner at Jennifer and Dave’s house. Lina and Mila were there too, so like old days, the three friends (+ Natalie) played well together, while the adults had some fun conversation.
What a great way to close off the day, and for Keegan, to conclude his Spring Break. He spent the week at the YMCA camp, and he had fun. It is now time, however, to get back to our normal routine. We are in the home stretch, and in less than two months, Keegan will not be a kindergarten kid anymore. Wow, this year surely flew by…
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