Fun with the Finkelstein's: HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter Everybody!

Today we spent Easter Sunday with Emerie's best friend Alaina and her family! We started the weekend by making Easter Eggs for the first time with Emie. Micheal showed her how to put the tablets in the vinegar. He started with yellow and then gave her the blue one to do herself. I guess he should have told her to put them in another bowl but he didn't and the blue ones ended up in the same bowl as the yellow. :)

That's the last glance of yellow b/c those blue tablets went in next :)

It was a challenge to get her to place the eggs gently in the bowls. She was practically doing a wind-up before throwing them in, so Michael had to guide her hand most of the time!

This egg ended up cracked

More eggs please :)

After making eggs, we spent a little time at the creativity center so we could try putting some furniture together. Emie is quite the little helper! She helped me put 2 preschool tables together. We were supposed to bake brownies together for Easter dinner, but we went out for pizza instead. :)

This morning, when Emie woke up, I told her the Easter bunny came and left her a present. He wasn't here last year b/c we thought she was too young to understand so this was her first year getting a basket. She was so excited when she got to the top of the stairs and saw the basket sitting on the living room floor. She ran to it and took everything out of the basket piece by piece :)

She carried her basket with her everywhere she went!

Then we were off to Alaina's house for Easter dinner...

It was a treat to spend a holiday with one of Emie's best friends. The girls were H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S at the dinner table, especially once the sugar from Alaina's grandmother's homemade sticky buns kicked in. Emie kept correcting us that they were muffins, not sticky buns or cinnamon rolls. (Side note: those "muffins" are AMAZING!) I don't want anyone to think that we're raising savages, but the girls were putting their feet on the table and we had to laugh seeing the the girls in hysterical laughter over being told to stop. I can honestly say, I have never seen Emerie laugh so hard. At one point, I was pretty sure she was having trouble breathing b/c of it...

Playtime before dinnertime

I'm not so sure this trend will catch on...

Best friends!

After a late nap, we went across the street to have a little egg hunt with Emie's friend Zara. After they found all the egg's they enjoyed sharing the animal crackers that were in the eggs.