Just Like Old Times

Whew, today was a busy busy day with events stacked up one after the other, just like old times (you know, the ones pre-baby, wayyyyyy back then). First, we took Eli (and Isaac) to an Easter egg hunt this morning at our local community center. (I just love that old fashioned community feel that I get from events like this, especially the ones geared towards families. This one was run by the local Lion's Club, along with our local firefighters--the Easter Bunny arrived on a firetruck.) My favorite vignette of the day: watching a genial, white-haired Lion's Club man, resplendent in his official bright yellow club vest, nonchalantly strolling along the top of the lawn, furtively tossing extra chocolate eggs at kids who seemed to need a few more, until he began to gather swarms of kids following him around, for all the world like ducks lusting after breadcrumbs.

Isaac slept for most of the event (thank goodness) and Eli had a blast running around the lawn with a hundred other kids looking for chocolate eggs, meeting the Easter Bunny, and then playing in the park afterwards. We had a hard time getting him to leave. Isaac did wake up towards the end of our park time and was fussy and hungry, but I'd anticipated that this might happen and had brought my boppy and was able to just sit at a picnic table and nurse him while Josh and Eli visited the creek and Eli climbed a nearby tree. (The old nursing-in-public skills came back pretty easily...go, breastfeeding mama, go!) He went right back to sleep afterwards, too, and stayed asleep for awhile after we got home.

Once we got home, we wound up launching into some long-overdue toy purging and re-organization in Eli's room and in our living room. I have no idea what brought this project on so suddenly but both Josh and I were Virgo-ing out in a big way, and it was kind of fun. Even Eli helped for awhile.

Then around 3ish, the Asburys came by and whisked Eli off to the Discovery Museum for a couple of hours (ahhhh the blessed silence after he left). Josh and I finished the toy purge and took a break, and then the Armentas came over to meet Isaac and have dinner with us (they bought us takeout Chinese food, rawk!). Eli and Iris ran around like crazy wild children in the backyard (picking and scattering camellia blossoms in some elaborate game of "wedding"--I kid you not) while the adults and babies hung out in the living room and ate Chinese food. It was a great visit but now that they're gone and the overstimulated older kid's in bed, I am finding myself damn tired and more than ready to crash for a while. I'm waiting to nurse the wee man one more time and then I'll hopefully get an hour or two of sleep in.

Today's cute pix:

^ Adorable sibling shot of big and little brothers (this one's for Lara S., who gave Eli the "big brother" shirt).

^ Mmmmm, caramel eggs...

^ Eli meets the Easter Bunny.