Easter 2007

Easter was a blast at our house this year.  It was also a little unconventional.  For one thing, we forgot to dye eggs until the Tuesday after.  I paid for it, too because Spring Break was full of Thomas, Star Wars and Robots, hence the themed eggs.   For another thing, this is the first year EVER that the Easter Bunny has had the nerve to leave droppings on our table!  Maybe that was his way of telling us that our carrots were nasty.  There’s just no pleasing some people!

Caleb’s Egg Family

Okay, Caleb has 2 pictures so that you could see that he named them after all of us, except Dustin, because, “Anyone can tell that that one is Daddy, so I didn’t have to write his name on it” 

                        Well, duh, I guess.

Caity’s “Artsy Fartsy” Eggs

The Easter Bunny’s Evil Twin

Chris’ “Darth Egg-ious” Sith Eggs

Saturday night the kids put out carrots for the Easter Bunny, and went to sleep excited for morning.  Sunday morning dawned way too early, but they couldn’t sleep “another wink”.  We dozed for a few more minutes listening to them lay waste to their Easter baskets.  We became totally alert when one of them suggested they go downstairs to eat breakfast.  At the bottom of the stairs, on the little table that held the plate of carrots, they found mysterious little brown things and the remains of 2 baby carrots.

They had never seen rabbit droppings before, so Caity and Chris inspected them hands-on (and in Caity’s case, tongue-on) while Caleb and Conner watched silently.  By this time, we were laughing uncontrollably listening to them trying to identify it.  “Weird Coco-puffs” was the ID that for some reason made it okay in Caity’s mind to lick it.  Chris was the one who made the ID and encouraged her to lick it.  (too chicken to do it himself, he talked his sister into doing it)  We could tell when she did it because Caleb and Conner started yelling (in their indoor voice, of course) “EWWWWWW!!!!”  Chris just wanted to know what it tasted like.  I guess she licked it too fast to actually taste it, but got a piece of carrot stuck to her tongue. 

After church, Dustin and I stopped by the little table to “inspect” the strange little balls and informed them that they were really rabbit poo.  Not just any rabbit poo, but Easter Bunny poo!  That’s when Caity and Chris argued that they smelled like chocolate.  I asked them where they thought the Easter Bunny gets all of his chocolate?  He sure doesn't’ have enough money to BUY chocolate for all the kids in the world, after all, even Santa makes his own gifts.  Caity got a little pale, remembering her earlier lick.  The boys grossed out and made fun of her. 

That’s when Dustin and I read each other's minds.  Making sure that all 4 of them were watching, we each picked on up and popped it in our mouths, all while commenting on the taste and texture (including the bits of carrot).  Four kids hit the floor, totally disgusted.  We offered them some.  Caity backed up politely refusing, Caleb and Conner covered their mouths with both hands, Chris ran.  Dustin and I chased him down and popped one into his mouth.  He spent 5 minutes gagging and spitting over the trash, and 10 more brushing his teeth.

Happy Easter to Us!!!

Now that I think about it, I think we forgot to tell them what it really was.  I just hope they didn’t share that for Show-and-Tell. 

Conner’s “Just-Lucky-To-Be-In-One-Piece-(sort of)” With a “Thomas One” in the middle. (with the #1 on it)

The night before Easter, after Caity put out the carrots and went to bed, I made rabbit poo out of chocolate covered jelly beans rolled in  hot cocoa and carrot shavings.  I set it up like this (left) on my way to bed.  Dustin rolled his eyes at me at first, but by the time I snapped the picture, he was giggling almost as much as I was.  Sorry mom, I know you tried.