Easter fun... and not so fun

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope that everyone had a great time with the people they love most this week!

Here's a peek at our Easter weekend (or at least Good Friday).

I'll explain as to why the rest is not included later...

On Friday morning, my mom called to let me know that Deanna, my two neices, and herself wanted to come out to Stirling for our Easter Egg Hunt at the park by my house. The community puts on the hunt every year on Good Friday for the kids, and if you don't come on time, you miss it, because almost ALL of Stirling's kids come intent on finding the most candy - and there is a lot of it! I hadn't been to the hunt before this year (obviously because I had no kids), and wasn't even sure if I would go this year, as Brody can't eat any of the candy yet anyways, so I was glad for an excuse to be able to go to be with my sister and her kids! Lauren absolutely loved the whole hunt, and Keira was happy once she had a candy in each hand to hold, and didn't show much interest after that. I hadn't seen Deanna and her girls since Christmas, so it was so nice to have them down for a visit. My neices grow up way too fast for me to only see them every four months!

After the Easter candy hunt, mom, Dee and the girls came back to my house to dye some Easter eggs. Kevin's family has a tradition of throwing Easter eggs down the hill behind my backyard, and since my mom and Dee would be at my house when this happened, I figured that Lauren would need some eggs to throw. She was totally amazed at the colors that the eggs were turning. It was sure cute.

I also wanted to check out the egg decorating going on at my mother-in-law's house, with all of my Nelson neices and nephews. My mom watched Brody while I swung over to get some pictures of the kids in action.

Kason (2), showing his favorite egg

Amy (11) and Gracie (10) guarding their eggs and finishing their last touches. All of the egg-dyers seem to end up with at least one blue or green or pink-fingered hand (as seen here).

Lauren, with her bunny ears on, ready to throw her first egg down the hill. She was not too patient, however, and I was nearly hit by her flying egg before my camera was down. Her next throw went flying backwards instead of forwards, so we quickly moved Brody to a slightly safer location. :)

Kevin, trying to teach Brody how to throw an egg like a man! - Brody just wanted to put the blue egg in his mouth though.


That evening all of Kevin's siblings decided to leave the kids at home and go see a movie together. Brody's been really good and consistant with bedtime lately, so although Kevin and I have never left him with a babysitter (YW age) except when we were only somewhere else in Stirling, I decided that, as he would go to bed soon after we left, it shouldn't be a big concern to leave him with a trusted babysitter, who is over often just to play with Brody, and who watches him for me while I teach piano. She is so great with him, and he always seems to do so good with her, so I felt pretty confident that Brody would be fine if we left him with her. Right before we left, though, we got a phone call saying that everyone wanted to carpool in together. I told Kevin that we should take our own vehicle in, just in case we needed to come back early, but he assured me that his parents would be home if she needed them, and that he was sure Brody would be fine. I decided I probably was just over-worrying, and so we piled into Jimmy's suburban with everyone else to go to Lethbridge.


Of coarse, because I thought it wouldn't, something happened.


Just as our movie was starting we got a call from the sitter saying that, although he had fallen asleep soon after we left, Brody ended up waking up later with the flu, and had gotten sick in his crib. He also had managed to mess his diaper so much that it hadn't all stayed in where it should (TMI?? - this has happened to him before with me, but I imagine that, for a 13 year old, even one who is as good with babies and kids as my babysitter, having to deal with all of that would be quite the ordeal.) Anyways, I felt awful for leaving a babysitter to deal with all of that, and I couldn't exactly tell all 12 people I was with that they needed to leave the movie they had paid for to go right back home so that I could relieve my babysitter and be with Brody (who, of coarse, I could hear whining his 'I'm sick' cry in the background while I talked on the phone to my sitter). After calling my in-laws, I found that they were not home for the night, as Kevin had thought, and so I ended up having to call a neighbour, Geneil, to come to my house at 9:30pm to calm down a worried babysitter and help clean up and comfort my baby! Thank goodness for amazing neighbours (SERIOUSLY! She is the best!) and for a forgiving babysitter (next time, although that might not be fore a while, we will bring our own car to Lethbridge!!). I owe them both, big time!


Anyways, Brody did end up with some kind of flu bug, affecting all of his digestive system, and giving him a fever Saturday and Sunday. I cannot tell you how many diapers I have changed this week, and then how many outfits I have had to thoroughly clean because of leaking diapers (again, TMI?? sorry!). We are still waiting to hear back from lab tests (also unpleasant) to find out if he needs to take anything else, but he seems back to his normal self, or nearly so. I hate having a sick baby though - you feel so helpless to do anything for them.



Despite all of Brody's sickness, the Easter bunny braved the chance of catching the flu, and gave Brody some yummy treats and gifts on Sunday morning. Of coarse, because he is such a loving son, he immediately consented to allow his parents to eat all of his treats, but he seemed to like his other gifts. I'm sure he will look forward to the Easter Bunny's visit again next year!