Happy Easter!

We are having a sweet Easter Season (Catholics celebrate Easter for 40 days!). Easter morning wasn't as big as we wanted it to be but amongst the unpacking craziness, we prepared a little basket for the family with lots of candy in it and put it outside our bedroom door. On Easter morning, Margaret Mary woke up as usual and walked to the living room. Once she got there, she stopped dead in her tracks and backtracked to the basket. She ohhed, ahhed, pointed and got really excited when we showed her the candy in it. Her favorite candy were the peeps (the little marshmallow bunnies). She called them her butterflies. Later on in the day, we had to wake her up from her nap early to go to a friends house and she was delirious, asking for more butterflies. We also filled the basket with Hersheys kisses, which MM loves (she always asks for a pink and a green one, she always wants "two"). I hope I always remember her smiling up at us, chocolate oozing out of her mouth, eyes dancing, saying "appy eastuh!" Later we went to Mass, which was beautiful and celebratory, and then we dined with some old friends (who went to Honduras with us on a mission trip four years ago!), catching up on the last couple of years. It was a great day.

Yesterday, our church had a little Easter egg hunt for all the kids after Mass. Margaret Mary waited with all the other kids in the "5 and under" section, and was downright giddy! She was bouncing up and down, smiling and sticking out her tongue. Right before the hunt started, it began to snow (it only lasted a minute or two), but it was so beautiful and perfect. Margaret Mary collected about five or six eggs, and then proceeded to eat almost all the candy in them before we stopped her. :)




Here is MM with her new friend Isabel, whom she LOVES. They are really sweet together.



And to end this post, a couple of sweet Margaret Mary quotes. She is talking up a storm and I am really enjoying her company (despite the tantrums). She has so much to say!

"self!" - she wants to do everything herself, and yells this out when she succeeds at doing something herself

"you glasses, sun no get me" - We were reading a book about glasses when she turned to me and said this. If you don't get it, she is saying that she wants glasses so the sun wont get in her eyes. Sweet girl

"mommy beautiful"- This is one of my favorites. When I tell MM that she is beautiful, and she always looks at me, smiles and then says "no, mommy beautiful." She also does this when I tell her she is wonderful. She smiles and then says "no, mommy wonderful." SO precious.