Claire’s first Easter 3/23/08

Colleen | March 26, 2008 | Claire, Family | 1241 words and 1,621 views | 1 comment

We woke up Easter morning, and got Claire dressed in her pretty pink and white dress. We headed to Village Inn to meet Jenn, Jeff, Ashley and my mom for breakfast since Jeff and Ashley were headed back to Kansas after we ate. Claire ate french toast sticks and bananas and impressed everyone with her cute bunny ears. We said bye to Jeff and Ashley and went to church, where Claire played in the nursery and we went to service. We did however give her some time to watch the bigger kids play downstairs in the gym, they were doing a puppet show for Easter and she seemed real interested in the puppets. After service, we headed home to let Claire take a nap. But before she laid down we staged an Easter Egg hunt for her. I filled plastic eggs with Cheerios and dollar bills and put them around the living room (the backyard was soggy) and we helped Claire find them. She happily ate the cheerios (only after shaking the eggs) and we deposited the money in her bank. Then it was naptime… After she rested, Matt, Sooner, Claire and I headed to the park in our neighborhood to throw the frisbee for Sooner and let Claire crawl around in the grass. We also took Meg, Claire’s favorite baby. Claire was having a great time watching Sooner play catch, and other walkers go by. We finished off a great day, with a swing on the swings, and Claire seemed to love it. Not a very traditional Easter as far as ham dinners and Easter baskets filled with candy, but it was a great day filled with family, worship and fun. Hopefully that’s our tradition for our family…
After breakfast, we snapped a quick pic before Jeff had to get on the road…Claire and Grandma Susan at churchJenn and Grandma Susan with the Easter Bunny…The Essers on Easter!Mama and Claire… what a happy girl!Here Claire is showing us her new walking skills. She can stand up by herself but she won’t take any steps unless you are holding her hand.I would say Sooner was having a great day… Her toy is called a flying squirrel.Big girl Claire and Baby Meg in the grass at the park.This would seriously be the cutest picture in the whole entire world… if only there wasn’t a drip of snot running from her nose. I think I need to learn photoshop.Claire pulled over her stroller and was having a blast spinning the wheels and figuring out what all the little straps did.“Hey what’s going on?” Sooner and Daddy were running all around, and Claire had to check it out!Watching Dad and SoonerClaire’s new thing is that she likes to squat down to get a better view of something, or maybe to rest her legs. And then she can push herself up to standing again. She gets a good leg workout going up and down and up and down…This girl is going to love rollercoasters… she loves to swing HIGH in the swings!Daddy was making her laugh….Meg loves to swing too

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