Happy Easter to you all, my loyal readers! I hope you had a suitably exciting day full of family time and chocolate consumption and, if you celebrate the true meaning of this holiday, the live mass from the Vatican which was eerily empty.
The Low household got off to an inauspicious start with a pyjama clad egg hunt round the house, ending with an unexpected and mightily impressive haul given no one has been allowed to the house in nearly 4 weeks! We were all suffering from sugar overload by 9am, except M who seemed to be in complete ecstasy from each choco hit. My wife also chose today to embark on a cooking marathon however it seemed to be more based around picking a recipe, looking out the ingredients and then asking me if I would just knock “that bit” together where the “bit” was the entire recipe. I had fun nevertheless and it definitely beats cleaning the floors!
So by accident rather than design it appears E has a monopoly today on my Easter special top 5:
1. This morning saw an immediate follow up from last night’s Easter Bunny conversation! E just walked into our bedroom at 6.15am and asked me straight out if the Easter Bunny was real. Weirdly as she asked she was searching around the bedroom for hidden Easter eggs! When I told her there were none in here she pressed on with her questioning. “Is it just Mammy who hides the eggs?”
“Well, what do you think?” was my evasive response
“I think Mammy hides then but the Easter Bunny brings them”
“Yes that’s right E” as I quickly seized upon this get out, “Mammy finds them as the Easter Bunny hides them in really difficult places and then she hides them in easier places for you and M”
“That’s really kind of her Daddy. I love my Mammy!”
Crisis averted! Or so I thought as 5 minutes later she reported that she has a wobbly tooth… “So you know the Tooth Fairy, Daddy…” 🤯
2. Our matinee today was the living room premiere of Frozen 2. Now we had a very eventful trip to the cinema when it was first released which saw Emma wailing uncontrollably when a certain character died and when I glanced over to Steph for some support at this public outpouring of noisy emotion I was a bit taken aback to see that she was also in floods of tears. Fortunately the second viewing was less dramatic as E knew all about the happy ending. Instead she became fixated on the proposal scene, happily announcing “That’s just how I want Jamie to propose and then I can say yes and we can be happy forever”. Daddy was not so happy! ❄️
3. E and Steph played a lovely game of hide and seek this afternoon whilst M was having his nap. Daddy wasn’t involved but was summonsed outside by E when stumped by a particular good hide by Mammy. Apparently the only thing she could find was a beautiful statue which was positioned right in the middle of the garden. You guessed it. I mean make a bit of an effort. Even just round the corner of the house would have taken 10 steps! 🥱
4. We went out for a brisk late afternoon walk to try and burn off about 1% of the chocolate calories. We were actually making decent progress when E stopped and leant down to pick up a chunky fallen branch off the path. “Don’t touch that!” I screamed
“What Daddy?” E looked startled and a bit annoyed that I’d been so sharp with her
“It’s not a branch sweetie, it’s a decomposing squirrel!”
“Ewwwww” and she recoiled immediately and we headed on our way. A few minutes later she tugged on my arm and asked what ‘decomposed’ meant and if the squirrel was now back in the tree with his family…. 🐿
5. Also on our walk E (as usual) dragged behind me on the home stretch. Apparently her legs are littler than mine so it’s justifiable (where does she learn this vocabulary?!?) Anyway, when I told her to catch up she dutifully ran up to me and patiently explained that she was speaking to the leaves. “I can speak Leaf you know Daddy”
“Really E?”
“Yes, that one is called Ham the Leaf. Oh, he’s flown away now. Anyway I was speaking to Ham the Leaf and then to Flutter the Leaf and she was telling me ‘Whoosh whoosh’ which means ‘I’m off to buy some butter’”
“Why on earth do leaves need butter”
“Oh Daddy <rolling eyes> to put on their bagels!” 🍃
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