Happy Easter 2007!

This year Easter has been the holiday that just keeps going and going and going... it's been great, but it has been more life Easter week instead of Easter day with the numerous celebrations! First we celebrated Easter and school (twice), then we received an Easter basket from Grandma Dotty on Wednesday, then the Links had an Easter egg hunt Friday night, then we colored Easter eggs over the weekend at home for an Easter egg hunt at home and then we went to Sunday Brunch for yet another Easter egg hunt. That's this entry in an "egg"shell so unless you want more details, stop reading now! ;)

We actually boiled the eggs on Saturday but ran out of time for coloring because of the Annie musical. So when we woke up on Sunday, we got the colors and apple cider vinegar out for some serious egg coloring! Daddy wowed us with multiple colors on one egg and we all had our share of multicolored fingers! Maddie just laughed with glee yet took the task very seriously. Anything to do with art, she just plain focuses! After we colored eggs, we dressed in our new Easter dress that Tailor Zhu had made for Maddie and invited Cooper over for an old fashioned hunt.

Cooper being almost three years older than Maddie quickly found most of the two dozen eggs I had hidden in the back yard, but he slowed down a bit and started directing Maddie towards some eggs of her own. It was just a Spring morning with Easter dresses and birds singing... I really do think they came out to watch!

After the Easter egg hunt, we went down to the German Centre for Sunday brunch at Sysery...I'll never be able to pronounce that name! We met two other couples there and sat as a group so the kids were able to play together. Maddie ate A LOT of food and then prepared for the final Easter egg hunt of 2007. As expected all of the older kids found the eggs filled with candy first which left almost nothing for the younger ones. Please know that I'm not complaining here - it's just the way things go - Maddie will do the same when she gets older. But then the coolest thing happened. If you read yesterday's blog then you'll know what I mean. Hannah, the little girl who played Annie in the SAS musical, came up to Maddie and said, "here Maddie let me share my Easter eggs and candy with you." She proceeded to fill Maddie's bag and then skipped off. Maddie turned to me and said, "I like that Annie."

A Sunday Brunch minus the Funnies!

Sometimes you just want a newspaper.... a big, thick newspaper full of ads, coupons, stories, weather, and of course the Sunday funnies. We all sat around the Sunday Brunch table today on the 38th floor of the JW Marriott Hotel realizing that Maddie will probably never yearn for that particular comfort. She's a digital native and can get all of the good stuff online, including the funnies and the ads!


It was a very cloudy day in Shanghai today, but you could still see forever. When you sit in a boat on the ocean, you see ocean forever. Well, when you sit on the 38th floor of the JW Marriott, you see Shanghai forever! We had a great picture of People's Square!


Maddie is such a delight to be around these days that you can take her to posh places that serve champagne brunches complete with lobster, king crab legs, beef wellington, Beijing duck, and Maddie's favorite... the chocolate fountain. After she chowed on fresh shrimp, she dove into the chocolate. Who knew chocolate could look so pretty?! She giggled and laughed and giggled and laugh so I suppose we really did have a Sunday Brunch WITH the Funnies!