Daniel & Annabel's Adventures: Hoppy Easter!

We had a fun Easter this year. The kids were filled with all sorts of questions about the Easter Bunny- how does he get in our house, how does he know what we like, and so on. Oh boy! Daniel and Annabel also both made pictures and marshmallow sculptures for the Easter Bunny, too. It was all so cute!

We finally got around to dyeing Easter Eggs the Saturday of Easter weekend. I told you before- April was a really busy month! So this was basically our first and only chance to do eggs; it felt really late, but it was also a really fun activity to fill our weekend. As always the kids were bummed they only had 6 eggs each to dye, but guess who doesn't eat any of these eggs? The kids! Mom and Dad are stuck eating them all! So, they survive and they enjoy dyeing the eggs they do get. Daniel was really cute and wanted to really turn a few of his eggs strong colors, so he requested we set the timer and get them really soaking- and the teal greenish-blue ones sure turned out really bright this way! Both kids also tried to write on the eggs, which only worked out so-so this year. Annabel also painted a few with a paintbrush and she had fun with that. I love to dye eggs!

Before bed, we got out our Easter baskets and all our plastic eggs for the Easter Bunny to reuse (saving the Earth- the kids were keen to do that!), and the kids laid out all their art for the Bunny to take with him. They both instructed Ben and I not to stay up too late so the Easter Bunny would come!

And in the morning, the kids made sure to wake each other up bright and early and go immediately to the play room to peek over the railing and see if he came and if they could find any of their eggs! They could. They found a bunch while they were waiting for me to wake up and get my contacts in. Then we all came down together and the kids had fun checking out their baskets of goodies and then got right to work finding all their eggs! So fun! We thought we'd found them all, but a few days later, Annabel found one that she missed on Easter, which she was absolutely tickled about! One hunt down, two to go.

Later that morning we headed to Grandma Cheryl and Grandpa Gary's house for a hunt and brunch there, too, with all of my family. Grandpa hid them all inside this year on the main floor and upstairs and he hid them pretty hard. The kids had to really look! Brunch was yummy and then the kids all ran downstairs and had some fun cousin time! When the cousins all left, Annabel had fun playing a few games with Grandma and showing her the new fancy lettering word art books the Easter Bunny gave her. So we had a great Easter there! Two hunts down, one to go.

We came home for a bit to chill and then we headed to Grandma Mary Kay and Grandpa Larry's house to hunt for eggs there, too. Those eggs were really hard to find- lots of clues needed!! Then we played Legos, tried out Annabel's new jump rope, had dinner and gobbled up Grandma's bunny cake! Whew- busy day! We were all pretty tired by the end of the day; reminded me why I like Christmas all spread out over a couple days! But it worked just fine, and the kids were thrilled to do all those egg hunts and gobble up all that sugar! Monday was back to school and a nice quiet resting day for me. Whew. Fun fun!

Dyeing eggs!