We had a great Easter - I hope my family reads this as the skype phone is out of action this past few days - hope you guys had a great Easter too!

It started out with J opening the door to my room (he had come in about 6:30 and didn't get up until 8:30 after a late night egg coloring) and I had a trail of those plastic eggs filled with little animals, and papermachae eggs filled with confetti - he was so excited to fill his little bag with the eggs and as it was pouring rain outside he had a big time finding all the eggs over the house. He loved shaking the confetti out - all over the house - and I loved it too it was heaps of fun. The trail led him to the kitchen table where the mother ship of Easter eggs had landed - along with presents galore. The most extravagant handpainted eggs you have ever seen - with his name handpainted on one. New books, puzzles and the favorite - a big blue whale and scuba man set from playmobile. So the reason for all this extravagance?

The Easter Bunny takes dummies. you call them binkies/pacifiers.

He takes them to give to little tiny babies and in exchange gives boys all the chocolate and presents a boy could ever want.

It worked

The Easter bunny gave Jackson a new blanky (his old blanky normally has the dummy attached to a corner) and the new blankie is special - if he holds it really tight it will help him go to sleep or nap in the day - because it is a special blankie. Last night he cried and cried for an hour - kept getting up, he was not asking for his dummy - but he was UPSET! Eventually after Brad going in around 10 times, he finally fell asleep as I rubbed his back - and slept through in his own bed until this morning and was happy to go to day care with his new special blankie. He did ask for his dummy sookie for day care - we talked about the new special blankie and reminded him of all the presents and chocolate the Easter bunny gave him for the dummy. This worked. He was not upset, he did however cling to the new blankie for dear life and took it into his day care room.

He has always found comfort from having something in his mouth - he will put his fingers into his mouth when he gets tired if the dummy was not around. He really seems to understand when I explain things to him - and will say "Oh thats right" like he forgot for just a minute that the Easter bunny came but now he suddenly remembered.

Yesterday we had Easter lunch at Aunt Donna's which was DELICIOUS! I brought over deviled eggs - which I felt I needed to explain the reason they were all blue/green and pink and a green bean casserole. J had three slices of ham and asparagus and a bunch of little cakes and chocolates. The cake room - my own name for the room where all the desserts are always laid out at Donnas is my favorite place - i always take a photo as it is always decorated in the appropriate theme and Easter is especially pretty with the most delcious cakes I've ever tasted.
Donna also had an Easter basket for J which made him all of a sudden not shy anymore and he just was tickled pink to have a whole bunch of treats just for him - he carried the bag around his neck most of the afternoon! He was the only child there so got a lot of attention - which by the end of the day he was loving and even gave his great Uncle Clayton a high five and was MORE than happy to take all the candy from his cousin Carmen. He is slowly getting to know Joy's sisters, of course he knows Lou Lou the best as we often visit, however he is begining to know Donna and Gina too. On the way home in the car he sang a song "Donna Donna Donna with the chocolates, i like Donna" Obviously he has connected that time at Donnas means treat treats treats!!
Photos to come - they are on Joy's camera and i will hopefully get some in the next day or so.