When A Child Is Born: Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter to everyone and to our friends who had their first Easter with their babies!!! Hope you all had a wonderful Easter! We surely enjoyed ours.

Emily had several “firsts” last week: she started to spin her bottles with her fingers and scratch everything else she touched. She had her first hair-cut on Friday. It was not easy. We sat her in the bumbo seat but it was difficult for her to sit still when I pulled her hair. So we didn’t cut much - only her front hair. We saved them in her “first curls” keepsake box. Talking about her hair, when we first took her out to church four months ago, a guy came to me and asked, "Did you put a wig on her?"

Another first was that she broke the angel’s head that we put on the picnic table in the back yard. It happened when we tried to take some Easter pictures of her on that table – I just can’t take enough pictures of her (Is that a new mom’s addiction or what?!). It was the first thing that she ever broke. One thing that worth noting but I didn't blog in the previous blogs was that Emily could turn on the music on her swing, car seat toy bar, etc. She started doing that several weeks ago. We even didn't know that her car seat toy bar has music until she turned it on by pulling it.

David and I had a new toy this week – it was a digital SLR camera! We started looking for a good camera ever since my canon camera stopped working. Finally we bought a 3-month-old Nikon on Amazon. We took some pictures with it. But none of us had a SLR camera before. So there’s a lot to learn before we can take really good shots in different situations.

Grandpa Jack visited us both on Wednesday and Saturday. Emily always enjoyed being with Grandpa. She got her first Easter bunny from Grandpa too. Sunday we were invited to the Hargroves and the Norths for lunch. But we turned them down because Joey was coming to church with us. It was his first time to church. We prayed that the message he heard would touch his heart. Gordon did a great job again. Several people were baptized during the service. Joey really liked everything he experienced. He had many questions about Easter. We had planned to take him out for lunch after church. But he had to go home to prepare for his exams. So we grabbed our lunch on the way home. During Friendspeak, we heard that one reader that we know was baptized too!

Last year David and I helped organize an Egg hunt and Easter egg decoration event at church for Friendspeak. This year we were too busy to do that. I really missed it. Maybe next year Emily will have her first Egg hunt. It rained on Sunday morning. When the sky cleared up in the afternoon, several kids in our neighborhood started playing egg hiding and hunting games. They had so much fun!

Emily is too young to understand what Easter means. All she knew was that she liked the two more Easter bunnies she got from Gayla and Judy during FriendSpeak. She was spoiled!