Henry gets more and more clever every day. Knowing this, I was pretty aware that the Easter Bunny would need to be a little more cautious this year than he has been in previous years! We planned a special time yesterday when Ben could stay home with the boys, and I could run to Target for the Easter basket shopping. I was careful to separate the Easter items from the other things I bought and leave the secret stuff in a bag in the car. Then, when Ben returned from the Priesthood Session of General Conference last night, he snuck the bag safely into the house. He set the bag on the kitchen table and, like the two sly little parents we are, Jenn and Ben went to bed.
Lo and behold, Sunday morning. Henry wakes up at 6:30 as usual. Jenn opens one eye to greet Henry when he comes into the bedroom. Jenn says, "Shhh. Don't wake Ellis. Go downstairs and play." Ben sleeps on (Yes, this is pretty typical). At some point, Ben hears Henry ask if he can eat some Cat Cookies for his "breakfast treat." "Only 3," he responds groggily. He fails to stop Henry from stuffing all three cookies into his mouth at the same time.
7:30 happens. Jenn and Ben stretch and revel in the gift Ellis has given them of "sleeping in" this late. Mmmmmm hmmmmmm. Jenn turns to look at the clock. Suddenly the kitchen table and secret bag flash before her eyes. She realizes that Henry must have been in the kitchen already because he asked for Cat Cookies. There's no possible way he could have gone into the kitchen without spotting the Lightning McQueen Easter basket poking out of the Target bag. Aah! "Ben, did you hide the stuff?"
Ben rushes downstairs to find the contents of the secret bag strewn across the table, and Henry handling some of the secret treasures. If Ben had been thinking fast, he would have pretended it was Easter today and that the Easter Bunny just didn't have time to make the baskets look pretty (I think that really would have worked). Instead, he mumbles something about "You're not supposed to open that," and then Jenn walks in and rambles something like "Did you see what I bought for you? I mean what the Easter Bunny bought for you? From Target? Uhhhhhhhh . . . "
Perhaps the damage is already done. Any ideas for explanations we can give to the ever-shrewd Henry?
8 comments:
This is funny stuff. Way to ruin the kid's dreams. Ha ha.
I love reading your blog. It always makes me laugh!
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Christie Wilkes
I just wish the Easter Bunny would bring me a Lightning McQueen Easter basket! I am not sure, but why does the bunny have to deliver the basket? Can't he just fill it and hide it? I think that's how it worked when I was a kid and I never thought anything of it. Just a thought.
Good point, Dan-o. But how do you explain the bag full of basket-stuffers?
Maybe if you're really good this year, you'll be as lucky as Henry.
Hey- I'm just super impressed that you thought to actually get all that cute stuff a week in advance!
After the April Fool's trick Henry played on us last week (who pulls that off so well at age 3 1/2?), I'm not sure how you will fool him about the Easter stuff he already saw. You may just have to invest in a couple of new things, hide the same basket, and spoil him good this Easter! But too funny! You two crack us up with your little parental "slips!" Wish we were there!
Hey you're way ahead of me actually getting the stuff at all, much less EARLY. Kudos to you!
Tell him the Easter Bunny had to leave his stuff a little early, so he wanted you guys to hide it for him. Hopefully you won't have to break the bank getting more stuff for him.
You probably don't need to explain anything, because that genius Henry has probably known the Easter Bunny's identity for two or three years now.
I already know the truth of this story too: you made up this cool cover story so you could eat all of the "kids" Easter Candy and go buy more "for them." I hope you bought your favorites from Target during your first shopping trip!
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