Funny Bunny

Warning: This post contains indulgent, "mommy-blogging" material, that unless you are related or enjoy looking at your Aunt June's slide shows from Mount Rushmore, will bore to you smithereens. Since our daughter only wears a dress a few times a year, we cannot help but post, what is basically the same picture over and over again: Happy Easter Everyone!

Who needs a bomb sniffing dog, when you can have a trach sniffing canine? We always know when Faith is coming down with something because Elway is very interested in her neck.

I am sure you can all relate to being fed up with the over-commercialization of holidays, especially Easter. Every year I am continually shocked as I walk down the "Easter Aisles" (Yes, they are now plural) and see everything from Hannah Monatana plastic eggs to Easter-themed I-Pods (Ok that last one was a stretch, but you get my point). Whatever happened to a few hard boil eggs and a chocolate covered bunny? Always the hypocrite, I broke down and did indulge a little...but hey when your child doesn't eat Easter candy, what alternatives do you have? As you can see, Faith is always very cautious of anything that comes from "the outside." Hey, maybe we could use a bomb-sniffing dog!

As you saw in the previous post, Faith is enamoured with windows as of late. For a child who can only see about 4 feet in front of her (and that's only when she is wearing her glasses, without them, her field of vision is significantly less) this picture just warms my heart. She is becoming increasingly more aware that there is a world beyond our living room.


Our girl is also really into cars! This is so random, for we are not "car people," nor have ever really had toy cars in our house until the Easter Bunny so knowingly dropped them off. We discovered her newly found passion for the automobile when she was ruffling through the Sunday paper and enthusiastically stopped at the car ad section. Ever since, there has been no turning back. Cars are just her "thang," (that and Spongebob, which is another totally random, far from age-appropriate fascination of hers..)

We have to post pictures of ourselves every six weeks or so, so people don't think that we've officially fallen off the deep end. See? Our daughter is really not being raised by a pack of untamed dogs! (I like that picture of her w/her daddy because she is wearing her glasses- something that is a rarity these days!)

We did venture out on Easter and took Faith to church for the first time. As it would be with any two year old, it was an ordeal. Why we were thinking she could sit through the service, I don't know, but we broke down and "took" her to children's church where she immediately found the nearest window, and continually banged her head against it. I couldn't help but laugh when the other children, gave her a look like, "What the heck is your deal?"

Of course, the adults were just the same.

The whole experience inspired me to create a shirt for Faith that says, "Yes, I breathe out of my neck, now get over it."

Nevertheless we did it, and we will do it again

Because that's just how we roll. :)


Hope you had a wonderful Resurrection Day

Jen & CO.


PS: Now that Faith has officially been home a year, it's time for me to stop defining everything in these terms, but this was Faith's first Easter at home. In fact, this will be the last holiday (minus New Years, which doesn't count) where the previous year's memory wasn't in a hospital. This is only language that someone who has spent significant time in the hospital would understand, but also something I know you can all appreciate!