No baby... Kait let me sleep in a bit. This is what I discovered after shuffling to her room and opening the door:
The "covered," naked Barbie doll is funny... It's nice to know that clothes aren't important to a 3-year old (just yet).
SATURDAY, EASTER VIGIL:
Still no baby...
On Saturday, we went to a free, massive egg "hunt" sponsored by a local church (Cathedral of the Hills) at UCO's Wantland Stadium. The UCO football and Edmond Memorial football players helped church members spread out more than 100,000 plastic Easter eggs on the football field. I think Kaitlyn enjoyed going, although the eggs and candy were not the highlight of her afternoon; she enjoyed playing with Piper, Reagan, Kennedy, and Kendall most...and rolling down the hill. I must say that we were a little disappointed in her candy selection--every last one of Kait's eggs had one Tootsie Roll. After Piper, Kennedy, and Kendall returned with their eggs and opened them, they discovered lollipops, SweetTarts, gum...you name it. We supposed that someone determined 3-year olds should only eat Tootsie Rolls.
Eric has decided we shouldn't go next year because there was a lot of waiting around while they spread out the eggs in between each age group, but I think I'll encourage it--there's hardly anything better than free candy and playing with friends, not to mention a little jump on an inflatable! As expected, we witnessed several "greedy" parental units whom always surface at events of this sort: one woman (with two young boys), had two Easter baskets full of eggs (yes, that's normal), and TWO plastic bags FULL of eggs (no, should not be normal)!! At one point, the MC half-jokingly said, "This just in: no Hoovers allowed." Annoying. People like that ruin it for everyone else in the end.
Kait's not too sure 
Now she's a happy girl!
EASTER SUNDAY: The Easter Bunny (accidentally) went overboard
Again, no baby (now 1 day past due date)...and counting...The lovely basket on the left was lovingly filled by my wonderful, generous Oma. The Easter Bunny had some difficulty with the basket on the right, as she overestimated the filled eggs to wrapped candy, toys, and fancy shoes ratio. After receiving TWO plastic dress-up mini Disney Princess gift sets (I don't know what they're called), in addition to the two hundred she already has, Eric and I had to sift through Kait's already expansive assortment of purses to find one that would suit her recently expanded collection of princesses (her current princess purse was inadequate and too small). Kait had been begging us to buy her the Build-A-Bear Tinkerbell outfit for one of her Build-A-Bears, so Eric and I...oops, I mean the Easter Bunny, decided to make Tinkerbell a bunny for the 2009 bunny (as is tradition).
I couldn't believe how many people were sardined into the church! Even for Christmas mass, I've never seen so many people attend (although, I've only gone to midnight mass at our church). The ushers had to add foldout chairs in the back. Father didn't read the Gospel, nor the homily, which was very unfortunate because I enjoy his homilies and like Father in general. I wonder if he's feeling bad again. If so, baby girl needs to make her debut so he can baptize her!
After church, we ate a pleasant lunch buffet at Stables Cafe. I must confess that in the past, I've disliked the food there, but I really enjoyed lunch (perhaps it was mostly the company). Some Cotton family friends joined us and we had such a wonderful time--I believe we "ate" for two hours, at least! When we got home, we were EXHAUSTED, especially after a night like last night (our idiotic dogs decided we didn't need to sleep and woke us up practically every 2 hours, or so).
On the way home from lunch, had to call one of the storm shelter guys (on Easter, nonetheless) because we discovered this morning that precipitation causes it to flood. They still don't have it figured out and are making me call them AGAIN tomorrow (how annoying; as if I don't have anything better to do!). Eric gave up fried food for lent, so he ate Carl's Jr. for dinner while Kait and I filled up on moderately warm Burger King (the absence of people should've been a sign to stay away!). At least someone was happy: Kait was thrilled to receive a Sponge Bob surprise in her kids' meal.
Perhaps tomorrow I'll go into labor... (yeah, right!)
