Next, I decided we were going to make some Easter cookies for E's school friends since I found some Easter cookie cutters that I never got around to using last year. You know me, the first thing I thought was where can I find some box sugar cookie mix. After searching the grocery stores high and low and finding nothing, I finally decided how hard can it actually be to make homemade sugar cookies....so I got online, found a great recipe and believe it or not they actually turned out beautifully (if I must say so myself....especially for a first shot at it). The icing was even a piece of cake, although very time consuming I found! As I (and Marte also helped me....she was the one rolling them out...I can't take all the credit) was finishing up, Andrew came in and asked how they tasted....we hadn't even tried them yet....I said "who cares, it's for a bunch of 3 to 6 year olds....as long as they look good!" But they actually ended up tasting pretty good too! I impressed myself.....so much so that I had to capture a picture at the result of my first real baking attempt!! 5 years ago I never would have thought I'd be baking cookies for my son's preschool class...it's crazy what motherhood does to you!!
Our next project was dying our Easter eggs. We've yet to find a place that sells white eggs, they only seem to sell brown eggs here for some reason, but we did end up finding some that were an off white shade that ended up dying just fine. E had alot of fun dying the eggs and putting stickers all over them....Coop, on the other hand, just wanted to pull the table cover off and almost knocked over the coloring cups a couple of different times. So we stuck him in his walker and steered him clear of the project area...as you can tell in the pictures he wasn't very happy about this!! Maybe next year, kiddo!! 
We were planning on going to KL on Easter day so we decided to have the Easter bunny come for a visit on Saturday instead. He sure was good to the boys this year - they got tons of new books (Cooper got his 1st Bible), a couple of new dancing Easter bunnies (check out the video below of Coop dancing to his!) and some other small Easter goodies as well as a new black/white board. Surprisingly, Cooper even seems to enjoy the new board - he loves to help his big brother draw and then erase, but unfortunately he also likes to try to eat the chalk.....and then gives out his famous shriek (I'll have to post a video of him doing this at some point) when you tell him not to put it in his mouth.
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We then had a small egg hunt for the boys...as we did last year, we hid some inside (to minimize the time spent outside in the Malaysian heat) and then hid a few outside (just to spend a bit of time outdoors!). The boys thought it was tons of fun even if it was just the two of them...of course, I guess they don't know any different. Evan isn't going to know what's going on when we finally make it to a proper egg hunt!! After a quick water balloon fight to get ourselves cool again... they gathered up all their eggs, came inside and opened up their goodies. For the next week, it was nothing but talk about how great this Easter bunny guy is....Evan can hardly wait for him to come back next year!!
On Easter Sunday, we travelled to KL to check out some of the things they had going on at the mall where we attend Gymboree. They had a rabbit petting farm, egg decorating and cupcake decorating. Evan had a great time and really enjoyed feeding the rabbits. He was a bit hesitant at first, but after he saw me he became a bit more comfortable with it. Cooper, my little fearless one, wanted to jump right in, but only wanted to tug at the poor rabbit's fur! 
We would have loved to have gone to Easter Sunday service at our church back in Houston and had an egg hunt with family and friends, but since those weren't options, we made the best of our time here and had a wonderful Easter by ourselves! We look forward to our next Easter....hopefully we'll be back in the states by then! 
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