Yesterday, we staged a small easter egg hunt for the girls. They each had one dozen eggs to find and their eggs were different colors. They did a great job at collecting only their own eggs and Conor did a great job hiding them according to their skill levels. It was just so fun to see their discovery. Greta "gets" hunting for eggs and is quite good at it and of course Holly definitely understands the game. Once all the eggs had been found, we dumped them out and let the girls have at it. Both Holly and Greta love chocolate. Greta quickly found all the eggs filled with chocolate by shaking them and ate her chocolate as fast as she could. To quote Greta in her deep, toddler voice, "CHOCOLATE!" This age is so fun. Conor and I loved remembering Holly at about the same age and her sheer enthusiasm and pure delight.
Details of our egg hunt: I filled a third of the eggs with stickers, a third with Annie's fruit snacks (3 per egg), and the last third had cadbury mini eggs (2 per egg). To collect the eggs, the girls used drawstring bags that I already had on hand.
We're trying to keep our holidays simple. And while I thought that the amount of sweets we gave them wasn't all that much, we definitely could tell they had too much. Holly had a stomache ache and Greta had a hard time settling at bedtime.
We didn't get a visit from the Easter bunny. I think we're going to nix that tradition. Partially it's out of selfishness for me, why should these make believe creatures take all the credit? And also because I think I would fill up an easter basket with a lot of stuff we don't need, which adds clutter to our home and I don't want that. I feel really satisfied by how this easter went down. We're trying hard to find a balance that's right for our family and even though it was a tough decision to not do anything from the easter bunny, or anything at all, besides an egg hunt, I'm really happy we did it.
On an unrelated to easter note, Holly is looking way too grown-up these days! Time is flying!
