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\nHere, Sydney begins to examine the Easter Swag. Where to start, where to start?
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Sorry the baby blogging is a day late – really busy Monday, as it turned out.<\/p>\n
We figured this was the first year that Sydney might remember holiday celebrations, so we went all-out, doing both a Passover Seder and an Easter dinner. A Seder isn’t really a photo occasion, in my opinion, but Easter – especially the “Jesus? Who’s that?” version of Easter Kim and Matt put together – is very photo-friendly.<\/p>\n
Kim and Matt decorated the TV room in pastel-and-bunny splendor and hid plastic eggs in every nook and cranny while I kept Sydney occupied in the living room. (Sydney: What’s that! Amp: That’s the fishtank! Sydney: What’s that? Amp: That’s Rattle the cat. Sydney: What’s that? Amp: That’s still the fishtank!)<\/p>\n
When Syd and I finally entered the TV room, I was delighted to see that Kim and Matt had set up a bunch of Easter Swag ™ in the bay window. Why should this delight me, a Jew who frankly couldn’t care less where the Easter Swag is? Because I do care about where the light is, and in the bay window I could take pictures using natural light instead of the camera’s flash. To my eyes, the colors and shadows in these photos are much nicer than usual, as a result.<\/p>\n
\nHere, Sydney begins to examine the Easter Swag. Where to start, where to start?
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Sydney finds an egg and opens it, dumping the contents. Look how happy making a mess has made her!<\/p>\n
Sydney really didn’t “get” the egg hunt thing (although she certainly enjoyed painting hard-boiled eggs the night before). Matt and Kim hid plastic eggs filled with malted milk balls and candy all over the room, but once Sydney had found and opened her first egg she pretty much lost interest in searching for more. “I’ve already got <\/em>an egg full of candy. Why should I look for more?”<\/p>\n Nor did Sydney attempt to eat all that candy. For the most part, she was more interested in dumping the egg’s contents, then reloading the egg, then dumping it again.<\/p>\n The exception was the chocolate ladybugs – Sydney really liked eating those, for some reason. In the photo above, she’s just shoved a whole chocolate ladybug into her mouth.<\/p>\n Sydney playing with a balloon. I think this is one of the best photos I’ve ever taken of her. Plus, this photo gives a really clear view of the bunnyriffic dress, which Sydney’s grandma found on Ebay.<\/p>\n Next week: Easter part two, featuring ultra-cute pics of Maddox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry the baby blogging is a day late – really busy Monday, as it turned out. We figured this was the first year that Sydney might remember holiday celebrations, so we went all-out, doing both a Passover Seder and an … Continue reading ![\"Sydney](\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/sydney_easter03.jpg\")
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