Easter Egg Hunt Time

On Saturday we had a little Easter egg hunt with a couple of friends from church over at the Ray Miller park on Eldridge. Sarah Marzarella’s mom and sister went over early to hide the eggs in the “forest” and Rocco, Dallin, Isaac, and Levi all had a blast looking for the eggs. Levi actually caught on really quickly and starting following everyone’s example and loading his basket with eggs. We were amazed that there weren’t any sharing crisis moments. James had to travel on Sunday, but we still had a great Easter because Alisa and Lonnie Mercer invited us over for dinner and the boys love being over there. She also invited another family—Erin and Matt (they have a baby girl and a toddler named Ian). Erin and Alisa grew up together in California. After feeding the fish, and throwing way too many rocks in the water we did an egg hunt for them and Ian. Isaac pillaged Ian’s basket when he wasn’t looking, so we had to have a little talk about not taking other people’s eggs. Levi is very observant. At church, Carmen lets me bring him to nursery (even though its still a month early) and I stay the first hour to help out. Levi watches what the other kids do and mimics pretty well. Two little girls were pretending to feed a baby with spoons and he joined right in. Isaac was being really cute when we got back from the Mercer’s on Sunday. He just wanted to speak in Spanish and he was calling me “mama gallina” and wanted me to call him “bebe pollito.” I’m so happy that he can speak Spanish. Even though he resists sometimes, a lot of times he craves it and has fun with it. Erin heard Isaac speak Spanish and said, “congratulations, your son is bilingual.” I thought well, he’s not potty trained yet and he’s got other issues, but hey I’m glad that I can take pride in the fact that I’ve taught him and continue to teach him two languages. It’s a constant effort, but its fun to see the results.