Red wellies and Easter Egg Hunts

Well, Easter has been and gone in a whirlwind. We spent Good Friday (the last day of our little holiday in Suffolk) on an Easter Egg hunt in some beautiful gardens. The day didn’t start off all that well, Squidge was very clingy (more teeth) and there was the dreaded discovery of head lice on Bean! He was quite excited by this, having watched his elder sister have the ‘comb’ in front of the telly. So we spent the morning whiling away the time with by taking mini videos of them pretending to be Easter bunnies while we de-liced (for want of a better word.)

By lunchtime, the kiddos and I were climbing the walls (I often wonder what I would have been like on ‘Big Brother’ because I struggle to spend a whole day indoors) so we headed off to our hunt. Pip and Bean loved hunting for eggs and unscrambling the words to find the hidden word that led them to the chocolate!

Squidge had a little game of her own and popped her wellies off the whole way round which meant we had a few false starts while we headed back to find the missing welly.

I have seen more signs that little Squidge is getting older as she now wants to be just like her big brother and sister, she needs to have exactly the same as them. If they have tomato ketchup, she must have some. If they have have squash, I have to pretend to pop some into her cup.

If I cut her sister’s nails or brush her brother’s hair – I must do the same to her. And if her brother and sister should win a toy teddy at a raffle……oh dear! I honestly didn’t think she’d be that bothered about having a go at the raffle but the tears continued all the way back to the car! Luckily she had brothers and sisters who were happy to share! I thought it was a little mean to be taking photos of her distress, but in the spirit of recording for posterity – here’s the shot…..

Looks like we’ve entered that new phase full of tears, tantrums and sibling rivalry. Oh! Lucky us.