Georgia's Sister Sophie

Saturday, May 7, 2011

White House Easter Egg Roll

Yes, we won tickets this year. Yes, we went. Yes, it was an experience. No, we do not have to do it again. Here we are waiting for our friends before we get in line - that's the line ahead of us.

It was a gorgeous, sunny day. Who am I kidding, it was HOT. We persevered. We brought ice cubes and an umbrella to keep the sun off.

Here we are before the heat really got to us.

Georgia was so excited to go to "OBAMA'S HOUSE!"

We really should have prepared her to go to "OBAMA'S YARD." That would have saved us a lot of frustration later...

Waiting like a lady?

LilyJ was also properly attired.

The girls were amazing. We were in this clustered line for about 1.25 hours. Yessir. The White House is in the background. But we're still in line.

More about that line.

Once we were finally inside it was pandemonium. We never saw an egg, let alone found a way to have the girls roll any. There were lines 8 people deep. I've described it as being as clean as Disney World, with the crowds of a state fair. There were characters roaming around to say hello. Georgia was terrified of all of them. We did see Babar from far far away. She talked about that a lot.

This was as close to the White House as we got - hence, Georgia's extreme dissatisfaction.

I explained that the president is busy and had lots of work to do, so we (and the 5000 other people there) couldn't come inside. She was not happy.

The view in the other direction. We really couldn't get near any of the displays, and we'd had the girls in their strollers for nearly 1.5 hours at this point.

So yes, we left after about 25 minutes. Whole Foods was handing out carrot seeds on the way out and I swear the girls were overly enthusiastic, just trying to make something good out of the situation. They also handed out peeps at the exit. G really wanted purple. She tasted one and then handed them back to me. "I don't like this at all," she said. I completely agree.

So we went to a street vendor, bought the girls ice cream pops and made the dads brave rush hour traffic to pick us up. We went back to LilyJ's for dinner and to check in on the little ones, who apparently watched a lot of baseball that afternoon.

True love?

G and LilyJ had a bath and she was sooooo excited to borrow these PJs.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Party at Henry's

We were invited to Henry's for another egg hunt. His mom - certifiably insane, more on that later - hid at least 200 eggs. There were five kids. No lie. G thought she was in heaven.

So we don't have any pictures of this, but Henry's mom adopted six chicks. They are in their basement now. They will be in a coop soon. Henry's mom is a crazyperson, a crazyperson who will also be Sophie's godmother...but that's another story.

When Georgia saw the chicks, Daddy asked her if she wanted to pick one up. She said she wanted a juice box. She's a city girl through and through.

The Kiss

You knew this was coming. It's Easter and Easter means kissing Henry, doesn't it?

This was Henry's response to all of the parents' commands that he "give her a kiss!"

Later there was hugging.

What we all were looking for.

Aftermath...

Easter Sunday Services

So this is pretty much what I've been doing during church each Sunday. She's too small for the nursery and totally ready for a nap, so we hide in another room and I watch episodes of 30 Rock on my phone. It's pretty annoying to have to get dressed up to do that...but it was Easter, so we took our morning nap to the church basement one more time.

The egg hunt was improved from last year - they made the bigger kids do theirs separately from the little guys. Nice. G brought home a ton of candy and guess what? No nap?