Easter

On Saturday, Eddie had a very exciting day! First he went to the Charlestown Easter Egg Hunt, which was at 10 am. You need to be early for that, it seems! We heard them counting down as we crossed the street ("10...9...8...") and by the time we got to the field a minute later, the eggs were GONE. Fortunately, the mother of a little girl who had way too many eggs took pity on Eddie, who was toddling hopefully into the field with his empty basket, and had her give him a bunch of eggs. They were plastic eggs with prizes inside, like a sticker, some jelly beans, and lots of foil-covered chocolate coins.

Eddie also got to see the Easter bunny at the egg hunt! Eddie was really fascinated with this guy, and kept going back to stare at him. He wanted to show him one of his eggs.

Easter Bunny

Opening the eggs

His mouth is full

After we'd done the activities at the egg hunt for a while, we decided to head over the Cambridge where they were having the Robot Zoo again! Eddie and I had gone to that last year. This time, Mommy came with us too. We caught a bus near the egg hunt, then took the train up to Cambridge, and had lunch near Harvard Square. We went to a Mexican restaurant with paintings on the walls of Annie Oakley, Geronimo, and various desperados, which Eddie thought was pretty cool.

Then we went to see the robots! There were little dancing guys, lots of rolling robots running mazes, lego robots, and some robots kids made there with paper cup bodies and markers for feet which whirled around drawing on paper. Eddie really liked an underwater robot he saw, which turned and propelled itself in a big tank. This was just one corner of the huge Science Festival. Eddie also saw some real dinosaur footprints from Massachusetts.

Then, outside on the lawn, there were tubes full of bubble solution, and lots of kids making bubbles!

BUBBLES

That evening, Eddie went out for dinner with his pal Luke, and brought their parents along too. What a day! Luke's family gave Eddie a cool toy barn with some animals, which Eddie was really excited about. On the way home, we were talking about it, and I said "Aren't you lucky?"

Eddie slowed down and looked at his hands. "Eddie yucky?" he asked. Silly Eddie! (Eddie pronounces Ls as Ys, so he says "lucky" and "yucky" the same.)

When we got home, he started playing with the barn and didn't want to go to his bathtime. We let him play for another minute and told him that the animals were sleepy and wanted to get into the barn to sleep. He put all the animals into their own rooms in the barn, and closed it up for the night, carefully closed the barn door, then went right off for his bath. It was so cute!

Eddie woke up bright and early Easter morning. He wanted to come out and play with his toy barn. But when he got up, he found an Easter basket waiting for him! One of his stuffed bunnies, Pasquale, was in it, along with some big chalk, plastic eggs full of jelly beans, the book "Silly Sally," and a tambourine.
Unfortunately, he had some candy from his basket before breakfast, and he became a bit of a monster! He kept demanding candy and wouldn’t eat his real food, and was generally unmanageable.
He was really interested in dying eggs, though. We let him in the kitchen, with his stool to stand on, so he could help putting eggs in the dye. He thought this was really cool.

After his nap he had a much better afternoon. He walked with us to the store. He wanted us to make sure that the library was closed. Then we went to the “market”—Eddie was singing “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.” On the way home, we walked by the Monument, where lots of people were out enjoying the sunny day. Eddie ran around and had a great time. He walked up to a plaque, which a maternal tourist was reading to her son (who wasn’t paying attention.) Eddie walked up and looked at her. She ignored him and droned on: “Built in 1842 of Quincy granite…” Eddie pointed at the big picture of the monument on the plaque and said “Tall!” As she still took no notice, he repeated “Taaall!”

Geez lady can’t you see what’s essential here?

Eddie is talking and singing up a storm these days. He picked up the word "tambourine" right away, and he seems to learn the major lines of a story after just a few readings (and then he can tell it to us.) He picked up a new mannerism today: adding "Papa says" or "Mommy says" at the end of a statement. Sometimes he's accurately reporting what we said: "Go to store Mommy says." Other times, it's more like what he wishes we said: "Open candy Papa says."