This was the first Easter where Owl was old enough to sort of understand what was going on.
Previous Easters may have confused him some.
Anyway, we skipped the whole “Jesus rising from the dead” part of Easter (since “Jesus” and “dead” and “nailed his hands to a piece of wood” are not things he can or should understand yet) so we stuck to the pagan fertility festival part of it.
He was quite excited about the Easter bunny part.
“Mister Bunny come… come to our home… bring me… CANDY!”
“Yes, Owl, the EASTER bunny will hide candy.”
“And eggs!”
“Yes, and eggs.”
“Yes. I like him!’
“So do we, honey.”
After an argument over how much toys/candy a two year old should get for Easter, PH and I settled on hiding ten plastic eggs, five filled with stickers and five filled with lollipops.
I put a toy ball, a colouring book, and a bubble blowing kit in his basket.
Easter was FUN. Even though we hid the eggs as openly as we could, Owl only found a couple without increasingly specific hints.
“How about over there, Owl? Are there any eggs over there? No? Are you sure? Did you look on the shelf? RIGHT THERE AT EYE LEVEL? No? ARE YOU SURE? WHAT ABOUT RIGHT THERE AT THE END OF MY FINGER?”
He was so proud of himself whenever he “found” the things, too. It was very cute, in an “oh my gosh, toddlers have mush for brains” kind of a way. (Owl did not improve his apparent IQ by biting into an Easter Egg, shell and all, and munching on it quietly until I noticed and snatched it away, explaining to him that you DON’T EAT THE SHELL). All in all, “Mister Bunny” was a hit, and he struck multiple times. One of our neighbours made a drop on his behalf on our doorstep, and he got a second hunt at his friend’s house that afternoon.
PH and I are forced to “help” eat his candy while he is sleeping.
You know. To save him from himself. And also because we’re emotional eaters. Pagan fertility festivals for the win.
Congratulations! That’s wonderful! Love & best wishes to u all. 🙂
Thanks!
The second baby is a completely different experience to the first one – you’ll be fine. Just promise yourself RIGHT NOW that you won’t try to do too much, OK?
And I don’t know why this posted up here, it was supposed to be one level down. I blame goblins.
Define “do too much”…
Hey, congratulations! That’s wonderful news. 🙂
I’m scared
Awesome! Congratulations!!!
Thank you!
CONGRATUMALATIONS! CAN’T TYPE! TOO HAPPY FOR YOU!
Lol when you regain the ability maybe you can write down everything you ate/drank/did/though to make one of those sleeping type babies.
Nothing but Gin.
Schweeeeeeet!
YOU COULD HAVE MENTIONED THIS TO ME BEFORE NOW
YOU SAID I LIKED PINKIE PIE
AAAAAAAAAAAAA YAYAYYYYYYYY!
LOL I’m glad you approve
i always approve of babies! 😀
CONGRATULATIONS! You two make cute babies. Can’t wait to hear all about Owl’s reactions to being a big brother. Wishing you all lots and lots of sleep.
We are continually surprised by Owl’s cuteness given his parentage, but then we assume that it’s parental love superimposing perceived cuteness and that to everyone else he looks awful.
Heh. I am sure I will have the same assumptions about my own kids someday. However, it is not bias in this case; your child genuinely is delightful, both in outward appearance and in level of amusment generated for the internets by his antics. Does that sentence even make sense? Oh well.
Also, he does actually look like each of you.
Whaaaaattt??!!?? I am so happy for you. Congratulations!! I can’t wait to read all about Owl being a big brother. He is going to be fantastic.
Congratulations from France 🙂
I continue to be jealous of your cheap Paris trip!! PH wants to go back there so badly. We loved our honeymoon there. When I’m rich, I’ll take him. If you ever spot any airline glitches again, let us know!
Will do! Unfortunately for the one I got you would have had to fly to Ottawa first…probably more expensive than going to Paris…thus are the ways of Canadian airlines! It was a fantastic trip!!!
Yay, that’s where I was hoping the story would go! Congratulations.
Happy to have met expectations!
Yay!!!
And also “Aaaaaargh! ” but mostly yay.
Yay!! Why scared??
Because TWO HOW DOES IT WORK? remember how awful Babby was? What if I have another like that!
Congratulations!! So … when? (Not when did you do the deed. Eesh. When will baby make his/her appearance?)
December 4th, poor thing.
Congrats on the baby news! Woop! Woop! And any festival that endorses eating chocolate for breakfast is worth celebrating in my book. 😀
Damn straight!
Congratulations, that’s wonderful news. And revealed to us in such a stylish way. Make sure you rest whenever you can. In fact, why are you still reading? Go and lie down.
Lol! I went to bed early last night!
Congratulations!! 🙂
Thank you!
Huzzah! That’s so exciting.
And frightening!
OMG!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
(Ihateyoujustateensylittlebitrightnow*sob*)
Seriously, YAY for you guys, I’m SO happy for you!! 🙂 🙂
Thank you! I know exactly how you feel. I remember when my coworker had her second and I was like “It’s not faaaair, she has twoooo and I have nooooooone…:
Congratulations! I’m waiting for the second kid to arrive any day now and I think the fear of handling two has completely sent me into denial. You should join me in denial land it’s fun and has lots of chocolate.
Excellent. I hear it ain’t just a river in Egypt!
Congratulations! Even if it’s hard, you’ll have someone just as awesome as Owl at the end of it. …And since Owl was so far at the end of the “supremely challenging infanthood” spectrum, much more likely this time around will seem super crazy easy in comparison.
That is what I am desperately hoping!
Oh wow, that was an almost Shyamalan-esque ending to the post! Many congratulations and well-wishes to you and PH. Maybe this time it’ll be an Owlette? 🙂
I have recently changed my email into nicely organized folders, and since then have fallen behind on the blog updates…
CONGRATS on baby number 2!!
Thank you!!
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