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Easter Joy

This past week we celebrated the Holy Triduum and Easter Sunday. It was a moving experience to observe Leah making sense of the stories we heard and read through her two year old eyes. On Good Friday she exclaimed, "Can we get Jesus down from the cross? So him don't get lots of boo-boos?" On Holy Saturday she said, "Daddy, him in the rock, and Jesus gotta get OUT of the rock!" And on Easter Sunday she sang the Alleluias loud and clear at Mass.

Leah got to wear her new pink dress, which she has been gushing about for several weeks now. (The girl LOVES dresses these days. The first thing she says in the morning is "I wanna wear a dress.") We also had a little Easter Egg hunt in our yard, and Leah was hysterical to watch. Once she realized the eggs had chocolate in them she ruthlessly snatched eggs from Ryan's grasp. With every one she found she would yell in her sing-song voice, "I foooouuuunnnd one!" We treasure the fact that she is so excited plastic shells that contain two M&Ms each. (I mean how much sugar does that little body really need?)






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Anonymous said…
I have been waiting for this update and it made me cry at just how much she knows and understands at 2. She is beautiful and the family picture is fantastic! Love you all and can't wait to visit soon.
she looks so grown up : (
she is just so beautiful---wish we could get all the little ones together so they could know each other!

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