Kai, being the first child, has been screwed the last few years.  No Easter basket.  Really…he wouldn’t remember it anyway and he gets enough stuff when it isn’t a holiday due to my shopping addiction.  This year, we did baskets for both kids.  Kailan scored big with a rare chocolate treat – M&M’s in little plastic Easter eggs.  Of course, the darn things broke open and Kailan dutifully helped me clean them up by putting them all in his mouth…at 6:30 am.  The beginnings of a wonderful, sugar-filled day.  From a toddler’s point of view…it just can’t get any better: toys AND sugar.

Of course for a parent, filling a precocious two year old with sugar before a car trip is the equivalent of chumming for sharks, caging one and bleeding openly before them.  They just want to escape so they can attack you.

That would be the reason for the toys.  We were going to be in the car Easter morning during a non-nap time.  We usually try to time the car trips so that our children are passed out.  It is much easier to listen to them sleep rather than listening to them scream.  I wanted Kai to have some new toys to play with so he would be occupied.  Anya fell asleep after sucking on one her new stuffed animal’s tag so all was good.  No screaming at all on the way up.  Score one for the conniving parents!

Church was just as much fun as I thought it would be.  We were pretty good for the first 15-20 minutes and I loved when everyone would start singing, since then both kids wouldn’t be heard by the whole congregation for two minutes.  We tried to ply them with Cheerios and toys, and only had to take them out once each.  Pretty good!  The pastor even blessed them, so now they are good until we make church again next year.

Kai enjoyed the day on the farm, and had to go outside every chance he could get.  He got some sweets, and being the 2 year old that he is, didn’t finish them all.  I was actually quite shocked by that, but he actually ate a few pieces at lunch of the yummy food, so we can’t complain too much.  I think Anya ate more than he did actually.  Since Kai hasn’t gained much weight at all in the last year, she should be catching up to him in the next month or two with how she eats compared to him.

On the ride home we finally got a nap out of Kai and Anya slept most of the way again.  Only a little screaming on the last half of the trip.  Kai only slept a half hour, but I’m sure he woke up because his head was just hanging out to the side.  I can only imagine the crick in his neck when he awoke!  If I wasn’t driving I would have taken a picture.  It looked funny – albeit painful.  For now, you will just have to deal with these pictures from Easter morn: