Happy Easter ... still!

It's the 3rd week of Easter, so "Happy Easter" is still appropriate! That also means I'm not late in posting our Easter weekend festivities. Dressed up kiddos in their Easter finery:

Ginny & Ryan spent Easter in Omaha, so with those noticeable exceptions, the whole family was together. Mom and Dad joined in our church's Good Friday observance and the last Fish Fry. Then on Saturday, Dad boiled crawfish here for us, and Peter and his gal, Serena, as well as her brother, Peter, joined us for that. Later that evening, we attended the highest Mass of the year for the Easter vigil. That was both lovely and opened up our Easter Sunday morning! We had some basket treats and then headed off to an aaamazing brunch at Katie's in Mid-City. Mom had soft-shell crab eggs benedict, Dylan had oysters benedict, Dad had a crawfish beignet something, Peter a trout and grits ensemble, and I had grillades and grits. Seriously, like I said, amazing.

THEN! Mom and Dad didn't have to get in the car to leave on Sunday afternoon. It was so, so nice to have them relax and stay a couple of days. Dad fernagled a meeting with work in south Louisiana instead of having to catch it in Houston first thing Monday morning, and Mom, well, Mom's on perma-vacation now. To keep the Easter celebration alive because He is Risen, He is Risen, Indeed, we had a lamb roast that evening al fresco. I think Mom liked it ... just a little.

Once left to our own devices again, we got back to normal routines and things to visit: Costco Mondays, Ms. Ashley's storytime on Tuesdays, Wednesday is general freeplay or "field trip" day with neighborhood families, little library and local playground Thursdays, levee walk + playground Fridays, Paul's soccer on Saturday mornings, and then church and setting up coffee&donuts takes up Sunday mornings.

Last week was r a i n and so managing as much as possible in said rain was eventful. If ever it stopped long enough to get some playtime in, Paul got to put his dinosaur rain boots to excellent use in puddles. I love it. We had a few cancellations, too, because of the weather unfortunately: the monthly Movies of the Point, and the annual neighborhood porch sale. Bummer. We still managed a few playdates, and when the rain stopped, these roses popped out - and are still coming!

This week, though, without any rain has seen a few extras. Paul had his very first dentist appointment. Besides getting a "great job!" on his clean teeth, we left with a county fair armload of "prizes" ... they say they want kids to like it there, with a shrug. Y'all, Paul got 2 stickers and 2 toys and a stuffed animal and a new toothbrush and a balloon (which Ada promptly busted). What's Paul's fave? The new mini-floss. And there's a playground in the waiting room, no joke. Anyway, after that visit, we had an outing planned for the Louisiana Children's Museum. (Sidenote: next time I know to make the dentist visit the activity for the day.) The Museum was wonderful! There's so so much to see and do, it's incredible. We enjoyed about 2 hours there and really only made our way to about 1/5th of it. Can't wait to go again!

We will probably not take the ferry, though. Yikes. About 8 moms and accompanying kids were with us, and only one other ferried with us. She has a son Paul's age and 8mos-old twins. We arrived at the ferry terminal to head home only to be told it's out of service until further notice. Okaaaay. Long story short, this friend's husband came to pick up our huge double strollers that don't fit onto city busses (&/or they're a hassle b/c they make you fold them down...), and we walked about 10 more blocks to catch a bus at 2:10. He couldn't drive us because whose car fits 3 adults and 5 carseated children. Anyway, lef the museum at 12:30, got home at 2:45. Hey! Weather was good, no child cried, and no baby had a dirty diaper. I'd say it was a successful misadventure.