Easter sickness - and fun!

Easter has come and gone. Where is 2010 going? Anyway, we had a good Easter, for the most part. We originally had plans to go to Maymont Park’s Easter event on Saturday with some friends. We were looking forward to the nice weather, and having a picnic lunch. However, I came down with a nasty 24 hour stomach bug early Friday evening, and Travis got the beginnings of it Saturday morning, so we weren’t able to make it. Tyler was thankfully spared the sickness, and didn’t even realize that he was missing the fun at Maymont, but we felt bad about it anyway. Before the illness on Friday night, we did get in the annual dyeing of the eggs, and Tyler had a blast with that. We took advantage of the beautiful spring weather and dyed them on the deck. He had fun decorating his eggs with stickers and getting the colors to be nice and bright with the dye. We bought a Cars themed dyeing kit this year, and he enjoyed that, as he is a fan of the movie and the characters.

The Easter Bunny did indeed come visit Tyler this year. He woke up on Easter morning and asked if the Easter Bunny was at our house, and we told him that it looked like he had left some goodies in his basket. He then wanted to actually talk to the Easter Bunny. We had to break the news to him that the Bunny had so many other children to visit that he couldn’t stick around to say hi, but that he left him some goodies. That was enough for him, so we headed down to see his basket. The Bunny left him some new Legos, the Chutes and Ladders game, Alvin and the Chipmunks DVD, and lots of other things. He was very excited and pleased. It was a lot of fun to watch him go through his basket and his eggs.

We were all feeling much better on Sunday so we spent the majority of the day outside, planting new bushes and flowers. We’ve had pretty warm weather all week (believe it or not, in the 90s!!!), but haven’t been able to enjoy it as the pollen count is off the charts. We did have some rain last night, and that has helped. But it is wreaking havoc on mine and Tyler’s allergies. And Tyler is also working through his second bout with pneumonia is as many months. We go back to the pediatrician on Monday to see if he’s cleared up and to figure out what exactly is causing this stuff to keep coming back. I think that we are going to look into some prescription allergy medicines and maybe a steroid for his lungs. So keep your fingers crossed for us!