Easter

We've really wrestled with Easter this year. A few weeks ago at the dinner table, Lucy said something like, "Jesus died on the cross for me and then he came alive again. Then the ladies saw him." Dave and I were kind of shocked. It sounded so heavy and so deep coming from a three year old. Her teacher at school read a book to them about Easter and she apparently took it all in. She's just now developing a sense of who and what God is. She thanks God for the sunsets and for her family. We asked her last week how she got so big and she said, "God grew my legs for me." Lucy had a really hard time when we found out Judson was a boy, she thought for sure she needed a little sister, but we kept reassuring her that God thought it was best that we have another little boy, that he was going to be the perfect addition to our family. We get that the crux of christianity is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, but explaining that to a little girl is hard. We couldn't really delve into the whole thing either, because we didn't go to church on Easter Sunday. We were hesitant to send Lucy and Gus with my mom because of all the germs and a new little baby. So, we'll probably talk more about it with her next year.

Somehow, in our mixed up world, the Easter bunny is completely fine and we can easily get behind lying to our kids about an imaginary bunny who gives candy. I can't even begin to understand why we're okay with the Easter bunny, but have a hard time explaining the resurrection of Jesus. I suppose we'll be doing some re-evaluting. Dave went out on Saturday night and got stuff for the Easter baskets. Lucy and Gus were both so excitecd about the Easter bunny coming and they didn't know where he would come since they weren't at home. It turns out the Easter bunny made a stop at Mama and Papa's (thanks to our neighbor Ms. Darlene), at our house, and the hospital. Dave went and got the kids in the afternoon and took them to our house for a little bit. The sly bunny left a trail of plastic eggs to the pantry where their Easter baskets were full. Then the kids came to the hospital and there were a few full eggs hidden in our room. The kids were thrilled.


Later on Sunday night mom and Jim came to the hospital to see Judson. Dave drove the kids around, so mom and Jim could come in and visit without the chaos of a two and three year old in the room, too.


On the new baby front, Judson passed the car seat test and his bilirubin test. He's doing really well.