LiLi discovered how much she loved to swim this visit. She loved going swimming whether in the ocean or in the pool. Of course, she is fine with her face getting wet when she is in the pool but still does not love it when her hair is washed although I have to admit that she has gotten much better. Anyhow, her are some pictures of LiLi in the water.

Swimming with Aunt Anne at the beach

Playing in the water with Daddy.

LiLi also enjoyed reading the comics with Poppie

LiLi enjoyed her Easter Day although she did not realize it was Easter when she first woke up. She went about her business until Mommy pointed out that she might want to look over at the table where she had left the carrots the night before and see if there was anything there. Sure enough, she found a bucket filled with “toys and candy” from “Mr Rabbit and Mr Bunny”(I am not sure how she came up with these names for the Easter Bunny. Well, she enjoyed finding toys and then was overjoyed to discover that there were plastic eggs filled with different types of candy. She think she loves candy but really she enjoyed unwrapping the candy not actually eating it but she wanted open all the eggs. After that she went and found the dyed eggs that the Easter Bunny had hidden one for her and one for everyone else and then she gave one to everyone and we ate breakfast. While eating breakfast out by the pool, she noticed that there were some more plastic eggs so she had to go and see what she could find. This lasted for about 5 minutes before she lost interest but by that time she had at least fifteen eggs. She was quite generous with them and put one at each seat when we set the table for dinner.
Aunt Anne, Gom, Captain E and Anna P came over for Easter dinner bearing with them more gifts so LiLi decided it was quite a good day. She had a lot of attention, new toys and candy.

Easter Bunny Poppie

Easter morning

Easter basket discoveries

LiLi and Aunt Anne on Easter Day

I was so proud of my daughter over the weekend. She was helping (she loves to help cook) me make french toast for breakfast and I needed some nutmeg(we use the seeds) and I opened the spice drawer and jokingly said to LiLi, after being unable to find the nutmeg, where is the nutmeg and she after looking for a few seconds she pulled out the nutmeg jar. Well, Thom did not believe me when I told him about it. So I opened the drawer and asked LiLi where the nutmeg was and she again pulled it out. Thom was flabbergasted and I was so proud.

LiLi enjoyed dyeing Easter eggs with Nana and Mommy. She was so determined to do it all herself and very methodical in how she put the eggs in the dye. She also enjoyed peeling and eating them on Easter morning. It seemed that she liked only a couple of colors but she did think it was great when I showed her how to make purple(that is her favorite color).