Saturday, March 22, 2008

the easter bunny

this year we made our trip to see the easter bunny at pretty much the last minute. i couldn't find any really good easter outfits for the boys and when i finally found a shirt for hayden, they didn't have his size. so i ordered it online and figured we would head off to see the bunny once the shirt arrived.
i talked to jenn and she said she hadn't taken rainah to see the easter bunny yet either. as always, twelve oaks has the nicest/non scary looking easter bunny around so she decided to come our way on friday and we all (jenn, rainah, me, hayden, talan, mom, dad and justin) headed over to the mall for our annual visit.
the past year or two i've put hayden in a tie and he's more or less hated it. this year, he put it on and was so excited. he looked in the mirror at himself and said "oooo, i look FANCY!" i brought a change of clothes for him so he didn't have to sit around at mom and dad's all day in his "fancy clothes" but he refused to changed. he even had a fit later that nite when we all went out to eat and mom tried taking his tie off.
we talked A LOT about the bunny with hayden and he did really well again this year. as i was putting talan on the bunnies lap hayden kept saying "can you just sit with us mom? how 'bout you just sit with us?" but he finally gave in and sat on the bench next to the bunny.
talan did great and just sat there looking around. rainah was the amazing one as we all figured she'd cry as soon as jenn sat her down. but instead, she sat there looking at the bunny, even smiling at times, touching his whiskers and even at on point putting her head in the bunnies hand.
stupid twelve oaks has signs during christmas and easter saying that they don't want you taking pictures. they want to make sure you pay the $50 for a 5 x 7 and 2 wallets to them. lucky for us, i've never been one to listen to the rules. i stood right next to the photographer and took as many shots as i could get while mom videotaped and dad and justin stood behind the photographer taking their own pictures.
i haven't seen anybody else's pictures yet, but here is what i got:


waiting in line:
hayden and talan:


rainah:







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