There's supposed to be more weather drama tonight so I'm charging my phone and getting in bed a little early to try to get some sleep before another closet trip.
Anyway! Yesterday was Easter! I hope all my friends who celebrate Easter had a great day. Here's Autumn before we left for church. I curled her hair (princess hair) but I didn't do enough styling product so pretty much the second she started moving, the curls started falling out because her hair is exactly like her mama's.
She got those gloves in the small basket the Easter bunny left at her place at the table. :) Can you believe they are from the dollar bin at Target?? She didn't wear them to church but has had fun putting them on and taking them off.
Here she is coloring an egg before we dyed it.
We went to the 8:30am service. They only did childcare at 10 and 11:30 (there were three services just for Easter) so Autumn went with us and we served in the children's areas during the 10:00 service. Autumn did really well. I was concerned she wouldn't like the loud music but, oddly, the one thing that she was "scared" of was this blinking light on the ceiling that needs to be fixed.
Also, this was funny. There was a girl in front of us who was turning around to look at Autumn. Autumn stopped coloring, looked at the girl, looked at me, and then stage whispers, "MAMA, THAT GIRL IS LOOKING AT ME." And then spent a good chunk of the rest of the service sitting in my lap and putting my hand over her eyes so no one could see her and she couldn't see them. Silly monkey.
Oh, at church they showed this Gospel spoken word video. You might enjoy it...it is nicely done. Click!
My mom is out of town visiting Donnie and Liz so we went over to Mike's parents' house where, of course, the Easter bunny had paid a visit! He (she?) even left a note on the basket!
And there was much rejoicing.
Autumn is still a little confused about why the Easter bunny comes when we celebrate Jesus coming back to life again. See, I kind of don't think I thought about stuff like that when I was almost 4. I think I was just happy to get candy, haha. We talked a little about it (new life, eggs, and all that) but nothing too crazy in depth. I'm just glad that our reading of the bible stories and her church lessons seem to be making an impact on her.
We had a fun egg hunt. She loooooves hunting eggs. I need to set up some scavenger hunts at home or something. Autumn was particularly tickled by the eggs that the "silly Easter bunny" dropped in the fountain.
Our lucky ducky got some dollars and coins in her eggs again! She put them in her bank along with the ones from Roxie's birthday. It's getting full so soon she'll get to divide up her bank (we're doing the savings/donation/buy something fun thing) and get that soft My Little Pony!
Afterward, P'd, Boppa, and Lauren took turns rolling her around the yard. I wish I had taken some video because her laugh is just so infectious. Hardly anyone can helping smiling when she's cackling away.
On a different note, I made a cake! Mike had asked me to make this Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake from Cook's Illustrated. It was kind of involved so I made it Saturday to bring to Easter dinner. I assembled all the ingredients and they were really pretty all laid out. These are the dry ingredients. It took me a few tries to find some Dutch process cocoa. I used all mine and sometime since I ran out, regular grocery stores stopped carrying it so I ended up going to Penzey's, which wasn't a huge deal because I love that place.
The recipe has you make a pudding and use a certain technique for mixing the batter so you get that height and crumb of an old fashioned cake, as opposed to the rich, smaller cakes that are kind of in right now. The frosting was also a little bit of a chore, it needed a double boiler like the pudding and then an ice bath to get it to just the right temp. Was it worth it? Oh, yes.
I definitely won't make this cake for anything but an occasion or special request but it was soooo good. Mike took some to work today and one of his coworkers called it the best cake he'd ever had (I'm not sure he was entirely serious, haha) and asked for the recipe. It was fun to do something so involved!
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