Happy Easter!

The girls had a very nice Easter celebration this year as we got together with some friends for a potluck brunch, Easter egg decorating, and an Easter egg hunt. We started with the decorating; it’s funny how Taelyn seemed to completely understand what she was doing without having any prior experience of the activity before. She did great. She dropped a few eggs in to different bowls of colors and waited patiently for the dye to set in. She was, however, more eager to eat the hard boiled eggs than she was to color them. The task was a lot more exciting for her when the colored was complete and she got to put stickers on the eggs. While all of this was going on, Kaelia had her first experience with Easter eggs as she tried to figure out what to do with a plastic egg.

After brunch, the egg hunt began. Some of the older girls hid the plastic eggs around the yard for the younger girls to find. This task was not very easy for them, though, because Taelyn wanted to be a part of the action too, so she kept following them around as they hid the eggs. The girls eventually figured out that Taelyn was not trying to peek in on the hiding places and they continued on. During the hunt, both girls had a blast. Kaelia was still very interested in finding out more about the mysterious plastic eggs, so she did more inspecting than finding. She especially liked to pull all of the eggs out of the basket that Taelyn had already found. And Taelyn loved searching for the eggs throughout the yard. She went from place to place while the older girls followed her and carried her basket.

Once we made it home later that day, Taelyn brought back one of her decorated Easter eggs (she insisted on the “eddo” [yellow] one). This egg had to go everywhere with her; she had to hold it in her car seat during the ride home, it had to sit next to her on the couch, and she had to take a nap with it! Then when she woke up from her nap, she couldn’t find the egg and ran to us in a panic. We found it intact under her pillow, and life was good again. We topped off the day by peeling the egg for Taelyn and Kaelia to eat. Taelyn did most of the peeling herself and then enjoyed finally getting to eat her Easter egg. We’re pretty sure this is all she wanted to do the entire day, so she ended the day completely content and happy.