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April! Serenity is just so much fun. I love all the funny things she says and does. She is still narrating her story. She says things like, "Serenity ran and twirled as she said "I looooove you!" And then the other day, "According to my legend, I jumped into the pond with all the other fishies!" She also uses the word "certainly" a lot. I ask her if she can take something to her brother, and she'll respond cheerfully, "I certainly will!" =) It's so cute when she says it.
We had a lot of fun with our Easter traditions this year. We colored eggs. Serenity chose her own egg kit, and she picked on with lots of glitter! We colored the eggs and then hid them repeatedly in the backyard. It's getting fun as she's at the age where she can actually find them when they're in difficult spots. Although, if it takes her too long to find them, she asks for clues. This led to our newest Easter game, the Easter Egg Map. I drew up three maps of our upstairs, downstairs, and yard. I put them in page protectors and put little egg stickers where I hid the eggs. This was AWESOME. We could hide things in really evil spots and she had clues right in front of her to find them. Eric hid one behind all the books on her bookshelf. We put one between the mattresses of her bed. So much fun! She loved it and wanted to play it again right away. She's still so addicted to maps and her atlas, this was just the perfect game for her. Inside the eggs she had some gummy snacks along with some awesome coupons that we had a blast redeeming. So very light on the sugar =) The coupons included "stay up past bedtime" which meant we had a sleepover downstairs. We went all out, had makeovers, danced, watched movies, and snuggled on the couch as late as she wanted. Which was later than me, I fell asleep by midnight. Amazingly, she was really pretty good the next day, so we can maybe do this again sometime. She also got to go out for ice cream, choose what we had for dinner, have 30 minutes of Undivided Attention, and a few other treats. I love the coupons, and will probably do this every year. We also did our traditional Easter Bunny scavenger hunt. We hid all the bunnies in the house and wrote clues for her to find and rescue them. She managed it easily, and asked me to write more clues for her again later in the month.
She got a bike from John and Ann when they came to visit. She's actually riding it! She had a little tricycle before but never really showed much interest in it, possibly because she couldn't really do much just riding in circles around our yard. Now we go for walks together and she rides her bike around the neighborhood! She has had one major wipeout, but was wearing a helmet. She went pretty slow the next few times but is now back to going "moderato." Yeah, she's been watching little Einsteins so her speed is either adagio, moderato, allegro and presto. The bike has wonderful fairy sounds (it's a Tinkerbell bike) so she pushes one to make her go whatever speed she chooses. It means she loses her momentum a lot as she has to push the buttons while she's riding, but it's fun and we're able to keep up with her on foot for now. These days Serenity only wants to wear purple clothes. She pretends she's June from the little Einsteins, and dances all over the house. She has one dress that Patricia got her that I barely have time to wash before she wants to wear it again. It's a fun stage =) I signed her up for dancing in the summer. Dad is also taping her episodes of Sid the Science Kid, which I am also enjoying. They do fun science stuff!
