This year Easter fell on March 31st, which also happens to be Ariadne's first birthday. I looked it up--this will happen again, but not often. She can look forward to an Easter birthday again when she turns twelve, 74 and 85 (should she live that long--lets hope). We celebrated both with grandparents at our house. All aunt and uncle types were far afield this time around with Matt, Marianne and Sylvan visiting folks in Winnipeg and Brynn at home in Brooklyn.
We started off with Easter baskets in the morning. An egg hunt occupied the kids while the grownups chatted. The egg in the vase of flowers wasn't found until late in the day. Ariadne's eggs had chocolate and vanilla bunny cookies (like animal crackers) which she turned out to be quite fond of.
Our dinner was more the Easter side of things with salmon, herbed carrot soup, roast cauliflower, green salad and fruit salad.
Dessert was decidedly birthday--we continued the tradition of a banana bread bunt cake for Ariadne's first birthday. She was happy with the cake, but what she really wanted was the vanilla ice cream. Her dad was holding off--knowing it would be messy. I finally slipped her a scoop and she said "yes!" for the first time. Not the 'yes, thank you' kind of yes, but the 'yes, score, awesome' kind of yes. A highlight of the meal--everyone laughed. It was fun to watch her eat. Ariadne has a strong gag reflex--much like Solomon did. Only recently has she been able to eat anything without mishap.
Ariadne was starting to get the hang of present opening by her birthday. Having two older siblings' birthdays a few weeks before her must have helped. Charlotte was ready to lend a hand at any point.
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