Hoppy Easter 2011

Note to self: Remember next year that you like to do holidays and you should prepare for them a couple weeks in advance, not a couple days in advance. 

Man oh man!  Easter came and went quick!  But we did all things Easter this year, except, you know, go to church.  Oops.  Maybe next year. 

We kicked things off with a trip to the Easter Bunny at the local mall.  But Kayla wasn't having any of it.  We waited in line, she saw him, waved to him, when we got up to him she gave him a high five, said hi to him, took a piece of candy from him but when I asked her to sit on his lap she wouldn't disengage from my arm.  Tyler was up in the bunny's lap and he was happy as can be but Kayla just wasn't going to do it.  So we left.  Oops.  I realized later that, duh, this is Tyler's 1st Easter!  We need a picture!  So, after naps we went back with Dad and Kayla did a little better.  Tyler was wondering why in the world we were doing this again but we did get Kayla to stand next to the bunny so we got the picture in the end.

Later in the week we had a Easter Egg hunt at Luna Club.  Kayla and Savannah had so much fun running around finding eggs.  There were several kids there and a whole field of eggs it wasn't hard to have fun.  (Tyler slept through the whole thing in the Ergo carrier, so there are no pictures of him.)

I wasn't originally going to dye eggs with Kayla, thinking that she was too young, but a friend of mine posted pictures on how she put the eggs inside a whisk which I thought that was an awesome idea!  So, I boiled up 5 eggs during nap time and away we went.  But she wasn't very patient waiting for the colors to darken so we went with pastels.  Then she wanted to play with them so we had to distract her. 

Then, finally, Easter arrived and Kayla followed the bunny's footprints down to the living room to find her Easter basket!  How much fun is that?  She slowly made her way through everything in the basket.  It was the first basket I made for her and I was glad I did.  I got to pick out a few things I knew she'd like and really enjoyed watching her look all the little goodies!

Tyler woke up later and Kayla shared some candy with him and showed him everything that was in his basket.  (Shhh... don't tell him but I wasn't going to make him a basket, because I didn't do one for Kayla until she was old enough, but I felt bad that she had one and he didn't so I put together some new clothes I had bought him and some toys that were fairly new.  ha ha ha.)  He wasn't really interested (which is why I wasn't going to do one!). 

They then opened up all the presents mom, G.G. and Great Aunt Amy sent and played with those for a while.

Eric was sick so he ended up going to Urgent Care (finding out he had tonsillitis!) and we had lunch at John's Incredible Pizza (think Chuck E Cheese on steroids).  Kayla even won us 250 tickets on one of the games!  How cool is that?!?!  She didn't care but I thought it was funny. 

During nap time the Easter Bunny came and hid the eggs.  Tyler was so excited he got himself stuck in the chair!  Ha ha ha. 

Then Kayla had a ton of fun finding all the eggs on the porch.  There were a lot and she kept wanting to run in and show dad (who went to rest on the couch after the first few eggs were found) so it took a little while to try and find them all while Tyler tried to escape. 

All in all, it was a pretty cool Easter.  I want to start some traditions, thus the bunny footprints, and now that she's old enough to start understanding some of the fun of holidays I wanted to do it right.  But at the same time, she's still pretty young, so I didn't want to overdo it.  So, I think I found a happy medium.  Kids make everything better!  It was so much better than previous Easters... I can't wait for Halloween and Christmas!!!!