Happy Easter!

A very happy Easter from Amelia, Lisa and Mike. Hopefully by now all of the grandparents have received their Amelia Easter photos. It was so nice to have a holiday photo turn out well for a change.

I took Amelia to the mall on Tuesday to meet the Easter bunny. I dressed her in the pretty spring Easter dress I bought during one of my reserve duty weekends in North Chicago. I had no idea how Amelia would respond to seeing a giant white rabbit. When we went to the mall for a Christmas photo, she refused to sit on Santa's lap. Santa was a strange, bearded man in red to her - so she got her photo taken on mommy's lap, next to Santa.

Apparently, bearded men in red suits are scary for Amelia, but giant bunnies are fun and cute. Amelia started grinning as soon as she saw the Easter bunny. When I sat her on bunny's lap she just grinned and grinned like this was the funnest thing she'd done all day.

Still, it strikes me as funny that while a strange man is scary a giant "Harvey-sized" rabbit is not. Amelia just has a different idea about what's cute and what's not than mommy does. As another example, while we were playing outside last week Amelia noticed a large black ant on the sidewalk. Her first response was to giggle and say, "Cute!" She even reached out to pet the ant, but I calmly told her that ants can give a pinch if you pet them, so she left him alone. Still, every time she encounters an ant or a winged termite or another other kind of bug her first response is to smile and say, "Cute!"

Lisa

P.S. Coincidentally, Mike and Amelia came in the house from playing outdoors just as I was posting this entry. Mike told me a funny story about Amelia encountering a black ant, waving her hand over the ant as if to pet it and saying, "Soft!" Yep, she's a cutie-pie.