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We had a great Easter this year. Not that past Easter's have been bad, it's just that this Easter we happened to celebrate it with a kid who was totally into it.

Saturday night Dave and I doctored a frozen pizza with some avocado, sausage, tomato, and mozzarella, set up a couple of episodes of Psych we had downloaded earlier from iTunes, dissolved some Paas egg coloring tablets, and then dove head-first into an evening of tv watching, egg dying, Easter basket preparing, and plastic-egg-filling the likes of which haven't been experienced in our neighborhood in years. I loved every single second of it, mostly because it felt like Dave and I hadn't sat down and just hung out together since the semester started. We made a vow that we would have to do things like that more often because really, the reason we married each other is the whole love thing, sure, but also because we actually like being around each other so, yeah, we should hang out more often.

Megan, Adrian, and Leo came over for an Easter brunch. We had raspberry pancakes, broccoli and mushroom quiche, cantaloupe, stuffed mushrooms, bacon, and bunny shaped cookies. Leo (who is almost two months old oh my god where does the time go) smiled at me. I believe that calls for the obligatory girlish "squeeee!" that usually follows any mention of a teeny baby smiling at someone.

Later in the afternoon we took Henry outside and thus commenced "Operation Backyard Easter Egg Hunt 2007" wherein we spent the next forty-five minutes helping Henry find the five billion (it really didn't seem like that many when I was hiding them) eggs hidden in plain sight around the yard. He totally got the concept. He got it even more when one of them accidentally popped open and a little chocolate bunny fell out. Later in the evening he dropped a bunch of them on the floor and stomped on them to get them to OPEN ALREADY so he could get at the chocolate inside. He has a great-grandma who's partial to chocolate Easter bunnies; she would have been very proud had she been here to witness the destruction.

Aside from the bubble blowing monster debacle where my kid almost broke his neck, it was a great day. I think we'll do it again next year.