lessons learned, from mommy

it was a beautiful idea: donovan wakes easter morning and stumbles upon a little egg and a chocolate shaped like a carrot. "what's this?" he would say, quietly to himself. then, just ahead he would notice a small shiny bunny--he would recognize it as a piece of chocolate. hey! another egg! and another one! he would follow the little trail of eggs and candies to the motherload--his easter basket! "Mommy! Daddy!" he would exclaim, happily "The easter bunny was here! The easter bunny was here!" mommy, being the wicked cool mom that she is, would let donovan have a couple pieces of candy before breakfast. donovan would feel like a king, getting candy before breakfast and the day would proceed with our happy little family celebrating spring.

what actually happened: donovan wakes at 4am, to take off his wet pull ups and crawl into bed with us. he notices a chocolate shaped like a carrot. opens it, takes a bite, realizes he is surrounded by candy. not wanting to blow this stellar opportunity, he closes--actually closes mommy and daddy's bedroom door-- and proceeds to stuff his face. at some point, mommy, trying to salvage the moment, goes to see what her darling son has discovered. "it's candy" she thinks he said, but can't quite understand because he has a mouthful of jellybeans "the easter bunny brought it for me and told me to eat it". mommy says, why don't you see what else there is, after the sun comes up. donovan agrees, and unbeknownst to mommy (at the time) comes to bed clutching his chocolate carrot, which you, dear reader, will remember he had taken the wrapper off of. if we actually fell back asleep, we awaken to birds singing and smeared, melted chocolate (at least i think that is what is was) all over the bed.

on the positive side, we didn't have to fix a special easter breakfast before church because the amount of candy that continued to be consumed. also, he doesn't like "peeps"

it has been a long, long sugar filled day. i WILL remember what i did at halloween, which is take advantage of his innocent age and throw the rest of the candy out. as far as he knows, once easter is over, the candy disappears. which it will.

excuse me, i have to check the laundry to see if the chocolate came out of our sheets.