Easter 2011 - Videos

As promised, here are the videos to go along with yesterday's Easter photos.

Easter 2011

Easter 2011 was a fun time, although there was a feeling of deja vu in the air since the morning was extremely similar to the last two Easters. Lucas gets up, comes down the stairs, searches for his Easter eggs, and then eats enough chocolate to fall into a sugar coma. I suppose that's just the way of holidays.

I've already uploaded all the pictures and videos from Easter morning to the photo albums here, but here are some of the highlights if you don't feel like going there.

We made Lucas smile and pose for a photo before he could start collecting his eggs. Hence, as cute as this smile is, it's probably as fake as a 3 dollar bill.


The first egg was easy. Incidentally, it took me a while to find the last one. We kept count and realized he had found 21 of 22 eggs, and I had no idea where I had put it the night before. I finally stumbled across it, but it makes me wonder if I'll need schematics in the coming years.


Fantastic parents that we are, we had the Easter Bunny bring Lucas a SuperSoaker water pistol. I got a matching one so we got to douse each other in cold water on the front lawn later that afternoon.


If you look at last year's Easter photos, you may notice that we got him the exact same Iron Man chocolate. Hey, you go with what works.


Not every gift was horribly misguided. Here he receives a perfectly functional Green Lantern t-shirt.


I got Marilu an herb thing that she saw on Oprah. I think she was expecting it for Mother's Day so it was nice to surprise her. Of course, now I have no idea what the heck I'm getting her for that holiday.


Everyone knows Kinder Eggs kick the butt of normal eggs.


Lucas surveys his haul.


Finally, nothing says Easter like a water pistol that would make Dirty Harry proud.


I've got five videos uploading, but they are going to take a while so I'll post them in a separate entry tomorrow. Enjoy!

The Answer

There was only one answer to last night's question, but it was the right one so kudos to you, Mary Jane! For those of you who didn't see her answer, all three of the photos in the last post were taken by Lucas. He has actually taken a LOT of photos this year, and believe it or not, some of them are pretty good. Those ones from January were the first good ones he took but his skill is definitely improving.

On the other hand, here's a not-so-stunning self portrait of the artist.

A Mystery

Who can guess what these pictures from mid-January have in common?




The answer tomorrow.

Underwear Pirate

I'm not really sure what his goal was here, but it's amusing to look at.



And this was from a phase back in January where he wanted to be a dog. So, of course, he had to eat/drink from a bowl on the ground.

Let's Finish December, Shall We?

Ok, time to close out 2010 once and for all. This is just getting ridiculous. I've also taken some good pictures of Lucas recently, and I want to wrap up last year before I get to those. As a result, I present a mish-mash or random pictures from December.

As they always say, a child will find more entertainment value in a box than the actual present it contains. Lucas is proving that old adage true here.


We go to our friends Tracey and Andre's place every Christmas Eve, and it's become a tradition to take a picture of all the kids together. As you can imagine, this gets more difficult each year as their attention wanders that much easier. This was the best of the bunch I took. I should note that Lucas was looking at a different camera in every single one I have.


Here, he gives the camera a very forced smile.


And that is 2010, ladies and gentlemen! All the Christmas Day and Newfoundland trip pictures were posted at the time so feel free to go back and look at them if you are feeling nostalgic for winter.

The Hair Up There

A legendary picture of Lucas from early December. I think Marilu is STILL using this as her Facebook profile picture.


(After uploading this, Marilu reminded me that I posted this picture way back in December. My bad. Still, it was probably worth a revisit.)

Kid Flash

Lately, Lucas has really taken a shine to a show called Young Justice, which is a cartoon about the sidekicks in the DC comics universe (DC is Batman, Superman, etc). In particular, he likes Kid Flash. I'm not sure if it has to do with his speed or the way he acts, but if I had to bet on it, I'd say it was the uniform. Lucas loves the goggles Kid Flash wears so the other day he dug his old swim goggles out of one of the drawers. He then wore them either on his eyes or resting on his forehead for the better part of the day.

Here's a few pictures of our superhero in action. First off, a some good-natured mugging for the camera.


Then ya gotta show off the guns.


Finally, our superhero prepares to dash off.


Of course, any superhero worth his salt has to have an archenemy, and in this case, it's apparently Laptop Mom. I have no idea where his shirt went between this picture and the last one.

More from December

Here's a few pictures from right after we decorated our Christmas tree last December (man, I really need to catch up).




And completely not keeping with that theme, Lucas slices up some celery on the cutting board.

Children's Christmas Party at St Pat's

Now that we are through with November, time to plow through December and hit 2011 before 2012 gets here. It shouldn't be too bad since I already posted all the Christmas photos way back when they happened. Well, sort of. In today's update, we'll take a look at a few pictures I took from the children's Christmas party at Marilu's school.

I'm pretty sure this is right before we brought him for a haircut. It was starting to get a bit, shall we say, unwieldy?


I love this photo. This is his reaction to Santa coming in the room.


Although he can be ridiculously shy, when it comes to getting presents, all bets are off.



Tearing into his gift.


A nice photo with Santa.

November in a Nutshell

Once again, Mom has reminded me that I'm neglecting my posting duties so here are some new pictures from November for you. (note that "new" is a very relative term here). I should point out that November may have been the lowest photo count since Lucas was born so there isn't a whole lot to see here.

The Artiste! Lucas drew the two figures on the left. I don't know what other 3 year olds are able to accomplish with chalk, but I thought it was impressive.


Being very patient as Marilu takes his temperature.


Not really sure why he looks so upset here, moments after he was caught playing with a bag of flour.


This is a really nice picture of Lucas and Marilu.


And that's it for November. Told you so. Next time...December

October

Yeah, as in October 2010. Pathetic, I know.

This one is from Marilu's birthday on Oct 24.


It's kind of a mess, but here's the birthday cake Lucas and I made for Marilu. Believe it or not, this is the first cake I can recall making in my 40 years on planet Earth. When it's from a box, it's surprisingly easy. Well, other than spreading the frosting. That was a cluster-$%^&.


This picture kills me. I think I caught Lucas between his cheese smile and a look of "I don't want to do this at all."


This is the only good picture I got of Lucas cleaning out a pumpkin. I risk death though since that's Marilu's butt to the left. She ain't gonna like me when she sees this one.


This is from what I think was our first snowfall in 2010. This was taken on Oct 31, and there was enough snow that Marilu and Lucas were able to cobble together a snowman. The rest of the Halloween pictures were posted back in early November since I was cognizant enough of my blog posting laziness to know I need to upload topical posts sooner rather than later. Hey, at least I recognize my natural slothfulness!


And that's it for October. On to November and all points beyond!

Trip to the Farm

As always, I'm ridiculously behind on posting photos so once again, let us return to yesteryear. Looking back at pictures from mid-October, I could have sworn I posted the one's in today's installment, but when I checked the blog, there was no sign of them. So my apologies if you've seen these before.

This group of pictures was taken at Valleyview Animal Farm, a fun little place that we've brought Lucas to MANY times over the last few years. In the past, he has usually gravitated towards the animal displays, particularly the ones where you can feed them. On this day, however, he was all about the play area.

Not sure why, but every time we go there, Lucas likes to mount the monkey statue and show it who's boss.


I don't recall the background to this photo, but it's just too cute. Since this was taken in the area where you can feed and pet the animals, I'm guessing he started laughing when the goat ate out of his hand. Simple pleasures. :)


The next logical step, of course, is to challenge the goats to an old school dance off.


As I mentioned, we spent the majority of the trip in the playground area. It's remarkable how long Lucas can hang from a bar. Me, I'd rather sit in one.



This was, by far, his favorite thing in the playground. He must have returned to it at least 10 times, in between playing with/on other stuff. It's some kind of contraption that lets you pick up sand and move it. His manual dexterity wasn't ideal for it, but it didn't prevent him from absolutely LOVING it.


Some more random shots from the playground...




I don't think he quite gets how a seesaw is supposed to work.


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Probably my favorite picture of the day. We really had a fun time.


I think we've taken a picture of him on this bizarre animal statue every time we have been there. So you've probably seen a picture like that at some point or another, if you are a regular reader.


I know I have posted this picture once before, way back in October, when we actually went there, but it's nice enough to post again. At any rate, I'm sure my mom will like seeing it.


I can't exactly remember where we ate afterwards--I think this is probably Lone Star--but I love the expression on his face here. I should title this photo "Portrait of an Abducted Child."