Easter....spring has arrived

Easter started out this year with Jaden and his cousins dying Easter eggs at my house. They had so much fun and my mom said that it reminded her of us as kids dying eggs at Easter.

On Easter morning Jaden and Zane woke up to their baskets filled with a small amount of candy (Zane's is really for Joe) and a toy each. Zane got the Busy Ball Popper and Jaden got a Star Wars Lego set (of course)!! They also got another surprise, Joe and I bought them a big wooden swingset, not for Easter, just a coincidence. It is really cool. It has two clubhouses, swings, a slide, a rockclimbing wall, a picnic table and a sandbox. I can't wait to get it set up for them. They are going to have so much fun, I loved playing on my friends swingset when we were kids!

After they checked out their baskets we headed outside for an egg hunt. Jaden wasn't too happy that I have to take pictures for "everything" but other than that they had fun. I hid about fifty eggs which I thought would be too much for two kids, but I was wrong, it went very fast.

Zane loves his new toy!

That afternoon we headed to my sister Emily's house for Easter dinner. It was delicous, thanks Emily for putting it together! The kids had a ton of fun playing together. Joe's parents live around the corner from my sister so Joe, Zane, and I (Jaden was having too much fun with Kyson) ran over to see them for a minute. Well, Joe's mom was holding Zane and then she had to get up and do something so she set him on the grass. I was right there watching him and decided to take pics. Well Zane started gagging on something so I reached over to get it out of his mouth and when I took it out it looked like dog poo, well sure enough I looked down on the ground and there was a pile of dog poo, SICK!!!! I almost threw up. I swabbed my finger around his mouth and got everything out that I could then I ran him inside and did the best I could to rinse his mouth out and wash his face. I scrubbed my hands. That night Joe gave him a good scrub down in the tub. Never again will I assume someones yard is free of dog poo. I will not make that mistake again! No more playing on peoples lawns who have animals until Zane stops putting everything into his mouth!!! The next day at work I asked one of the pediatricians if I should be worried. She was unsure but after some discussion with her fellow workers she decided no, (assuming the dogs are dewormed on a regular basis) Joe, however, doubts that his parents deworm their dogs regularly. He said that when he was a kid all of the kids in his family had lice, worms, you name it, they had it. I truly hope that he was kidding and just trying to gross me out because I really am grossed out now. I was never blessed to have experienced those things as a child so the thought of it really makes me sick to my stomach. Well so far Zane has been fine, no diarreah or anything. He has another checkup next week so I will probably just ask his pediatrician to be sure that we shouldn't be testing him for anything.