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Every year we (the mom friends with no or little family here) get together for Easter and do a little egg hunt and dinner at our house. This year's Easter was small but loaded with fun! Brooklyn was old enough to know what to do and be excited about doing it- and at points jealous that others were doing it too--and a little upset with Mr. Easter bunny for putting mommy and daddy candy in HER eggs!


The contemplation...



The Hunt...


The comparison- odds are stacked against the boys with little baskets!

Didn't your mom teach you not to count your eggs before they hatch...I felt so bad here I had this ecstatic child overwhelmed with a basket of eggs full of candy and some cookies that were sugar free of course- (if you know my kid you know why I say that!) yet I had to sit with her and take away the candy- Kinda like Halloween they got bagfuls and couldn't have any. I often think that we ate candy and it didn't kill us, but none the less they say it can hurt them so she can't have it- I know mean old mom!

Trying to sneak a little candy...caught in the act!


End of the day...Ok lets take a group photo- what a great idea! If any of you parents (I say specifically parents because for some reason they will do it for non parents) have ever tried group photos on this age group you have probably seen this face too! My daughter and apparently her friend did not want to take a picture- this is the reaction we got per the request....

Labels: Candy, Easter, Easter Egg Hunt

Brooklyn was so excited about the Easter bunny coming that she could hardly sleep...she woke up bright and early (unusual for her) and said "mommy I think I hear the Easter Bunny down stairs..." in this undercover whisper voice as if she didn't want him to hear her. Then she proceeded to David... "Daddy, wake up, let's go see the Easter Bunny" Of course when we got down stairs she could not find the basket, so the search was on...then finally she saw it!


She see's it! The inspection!


Counting all her chocolate eggs...


The lick of a jelly bean


The reaction!

Labels: Chocolate Eggs, Easter Basket, Easter Morning

WE were invited by some friends to go to dinner and hang out at their hotel room. The big attraction (for the kids) was the silverman street vendor. They all liked him until he moved!

Brooke before dinner being silly as usual! I try my hardest to dress her like a little princess, but you can't take the kid out of the kid no matter what they look like!!



Love the balloon hat!!!

Labels: Balloons, Silverman, Street Performers, Waikiki

Some pics of Brooke playing without her glasses...a rare site now a days- she LOVES her glasses and for good reason...she can't see without them! Sometimes though she likes to take them off for a while, so I quickly grabbed the camera and took a few shots of her playing!


Being a princess!


Our little artist! At least she is coloring on boards now...used to be the walls, sofas etc...of course now that I said this I am sure I will find marker on one of my walls!


Can you see the blue chair she drew...it's an exact replica of the purple and gold chair beside :)


It's never to early to start feeding the piggy bank!


David and Brooke eating icecream and laughing!

Labels: Art, Boa, Laughing, Little Girl, Money, Piggy Bank, Princess

There are so many kinds of Easter egg dyes now... it's hard to make a decision on which one to get...glittery, marble, little pouchey things, indiviual color coded cups, q-tip things...I bet they have eggs that dye themselves soon... you get the point- we got the "original" egg dye (at least that's what it said on the box) and opted for the "bright" colors (using 3 table spoons of vinager only I think we used more like a cup because our containers were too big and the eggs were not even a quarter of the way covered- could explain the very vivid blue we got on one of the eggs-I have never seen an easter egg that bright).


Dave let Brooklyn mix two of the extra color tabs together and this was the color they made!

Her reaction to realizing there were no more eggs to color (this was before she realized she could keep putting the eggs in different colors)


I think this one should win the ugliest/prettiest egg contest! It's Brooklyn's favorite- go figure :) and believe it or not it was the bright blue egg in the first few pictures- she kept recoloring the eggs b/c we ran out too fast.

Labels: Colorful Eggs, Dying Easter Eggs, Easter Eggs

A gloomy day outside- lots of rain, but we promised Brooke we would go to the fair so we went and had a great time! So we get there and first thing out of Brooke's mouth was "I want to go on the pink one" we kind of ignored it as we walked around looking at all the rides, but she kept asking so we got our scripts (those are tickets aka money in fair terms) and stood in line at the so called kiddy pink bouncy ride! WE get on and she was so excited...going up was fine- coming down well I can't describe it- but see for yourself...


She never actually cried, she was just really red and made these grunting sounds- not really screams...


Every time we went up she was fine (I think in the whew- it's over stage) but then of course what goes up must come down- needless to say she did not want to go on the pink bouncy thing again!

Me on the swings- yes without my shoes- I didn't want them to fly off! It's been so long I forgot how dizzy you get!


David and Randy on the flipy ride- I don't know the real name :)


MMMM...Cotton Candy!

Sour Lemonade- I think they forgot to put the sugar in!

All Pau!

Brooke decided the forsee's (that's what Brooke calls horses) was more her speed!

She went down the slide 2 times once with mommy and once with daddy- but I'm not convinced she really liked it!!! This was her pretend scared face!Anyway- we had a great time Brooke got to experience rides and now I don't think she will ever go on one again, however after going on the pink bouncy ride she suddenly thought watching other people scream on rides was hilarious, she ate tons of cotton candy and rode a sugar high for the following 3 hours- fun for mommy and daddy!

Labels: Ala Moana, Cotton Candy, Family Day, Hawaii Fair, Magic Island, Rides, The Fair