We flew out to California for the Easter weekend, to visit with friends and family. I was nervous to see Andrews grandpa; he has since moved into a nursing home since we last saw him. He remembered us and was "with it" on the day we visit with him. He has been in and out of current time frame and been living mostly in the past, by reliving the memories as a current incident. I am just glad Kara was able to visit with her great grandpa again. The visit was lovely. When we got there we sat in the common area at a table with 4 chairs and other chairs along the walls and hall. At first it was just us in the sitting area, then little by little people started to gather. The elderly people were all admiring baby, Kara. She was in such a cheerful mood, waving to everyone, clapping her little hands, and babbling her baby talk. In a matter of minutes we had an audience.
The rest of the weekend we visited our folks. My parents came down and stayed in Westlake to visit with us. Saturday night we went out for sushi with our friends, Kara, and my mom and dad. Kara sat at the head of the table, and we would feed her bits of our sushi, like the avocado or cucumber bits. She had a fun time and behaved very well.
On Easter Sunday we went to a family friends house for Easter celebration. This was Kara's 2nd Easter (officially)... this year really counts more than last year to be able to enjoy it. There were other kids around her baby age so there was a separate baby egg hunt set up on the side grass/yard aside from the bigger kids looking for eggs. I got her some bunny ears for her to wear, as a headband...and left it back in Missouri. Drat, I didn't get any pics of her with the bunny ears on, but I did get plenty of other pics to post on here.
She loved the plastic Easter eggs, they fit perfectly in her little baby hands. The eggs all rattled with candy inside, and Kara would sit on the grass rattling her two eggs; one in each hand. We had to encourage her to go find some more eggs! "There are more eggs, right there Kara!" Then she got the hang of it and crawled all around the grass, scooping up eggs into a pile in front of her...We had a blast watching her find the eggs (in plane sight).
Later we were all sitting down for lunch and kids are still running around playing in the yard. I was eating egg salad and I thought one of the kids came up behind me jolting my chair, and when I looked back no one was there. About the same time I was questioning what was moving my chair, other people felt it too. Turns out we felt the Earthquake that happened in Mexico, a 6.2 on the rector scale at the time that we had all felt it. We were all the way up north in Camarillo, CA, to have felt part of that Earthquake. The funny thing was Kara didn't even wake up from it, she was napping in her car seat in a chair next to me. She slept through the big jolt. While she was sleeping, she held onto her two Easter eggs that she had been rattling earlier.
We had a fun filled weekend, with so much to do in the few days that we were in town. On our flight Monday going home, back to Missouri, Kara slept the whole flight.
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