Easter

We had such a good Easter!  This is the first year that Henry really understood egg hunts and realized that the Easter Bunny left treats (sidewalk chalk, Texas Rangers tattoos, bath color tablets, and jelly beans) in his basket.  So fun.  We read the Easter story a few times this year.  He was really concerned about why everyone was crying, what Mary's name was, and why one disciple had a big nose.   He may have missed the point.

First he got to do an egg hunt with our Friday play date group at a friend's house.  The night before, we practiced the concept of looking for eggs and putting them in your basket when you find them.  There weren't any treats in the eggs, so he lost interest quickly.  At the real egg hunt, he realized there were treats inside, and stopped after every egg to open them, and try to convince me to give him the candy or stickers right then.  He ended up with 4 eggs at the first hunt, but was happy as can be.

He also had an egg hunt with his class at school.  We all sent in a dozen unstuffed eggs, and the teachers just threw them all over the playground floor.  The kids were interested for a few seconds, then just played on the playground. That's about how long 1 and 2-year old boys' attention spans are.

Then Easter morning he hunted eggs at church.  He still opened every egg and pleaded his case for the candy  inside ("Mama, open please!"), but did it a little more quickly.  It looks like he got a TON, but most of his basket was filled with grass, so he really got about 8 before I made him stop so others could have a turn.   :) I'm sad Sam didn't get to come to church because he crushed his big toe the day before, but we still had a lovely little Easter.

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