Easter Weekend

Atlas has been extremely sweet and easy the last week or so. In the last week he had a Dr. check up and a dentist appt., and did amazingly at both. He has been so complimentary and snuggly and fun. On Saturday we went to the East Providence city Easter egg hunt and as we pulled up he said "I'm so excited. This is going to be wonderful", and then told us that we were good parents.

He was so excited at the hunt that he grabbed two eggs and then ecstatically ran around in tiny circles giggling in sheer joy while the rest of the kids kept getting more eggs.

Luckily the eggs were empty and after the hunt each kid turned them in a got the same goodie bag (not that Atlas would have cared, he was pretty excited about his two eggs).

On Sunday we went to church

and while we were there, the Easter Bunny hid eggs in our house for Atlas to find when he got home.

While we were at church a lady in our ward asked if we had somewhere to go for Easter dinner, which we didn't, and invited us over. Her name is Becky and we see her every week at church, but haven't really gotten to know her yet. She is a professor of anthropology at Brown. Her husband, Mohammad, is a devout Muslim, so we didn't know him. Becky also invited over another friend who was oriental and there is no way I can spell her name. It was a small little gathering and I wasn't sure how Atlas would be since there weren't going to be any other kids, but luckily Becky and Mohammad love kids and were absolutely awesome with him. They played hide and seek and tickled him and sang him songs in Arabic. He was so happy and had so much fun. We stayed all night, which I wasn't planning on, so we didn't get around to dyeing our Easter eggs, but we were just enjoying ourselves too much. It was really nice to have some much needed company on the Holiday.