The Saturday night before Easter we thought it would be fun to color eggs this year. We werent sure is Will was quite old enough to participate or to think it was fun, so we decided at least the adults should have fun. We invited Ben, John, and Cassie over to help and hang out with us for the evening. As it turned out, Will did like coloring the eggs once he saw everyone else doing it. He was really in to dropping the eggs into the cups and stirring them. When we were almost done, Will discovered an even more fun use for the spoons - dipping them in the dye and then putting them on his t-shirt! It almost looked like tiedye by the time we were done. I thought his onesie was ruined for sure, but amazingly enough it came perfectly clean in the wash.
On Easter Sunday, we went to the early service at Hope, and I even dressed the kids up in nice clothes for the holiday. I usually don't bother to dress the kids up for church since most of the adults at our church don't dress up either, but I have been excited to use some of nicer Easter themed clothes that we have for Olivia. The service was really good at church as usual, and afterward we went over to Gail Davis' house for dinner. For the past several years Gail has hosted Easter dinner at her house for the Pike family as well as a couple of other friends that don't have a lot of family in town. It is a nice change of scene and I always look forward to it.
This year they had an Easter egg hunt for the little kids in the backyard. I thought for sure Will was too young, but once he figured out that he was supposed to find the eggs and that they had candy in them, he was on a mission. Soon his basket was too full for any more eggs, so Aunt Sara was going to trade him his basket for Ethan's mostly empty basket. We all got a good laugh when Will took off with both baskets!
After dinner we hung out for a while and then went on home to nap Will. Later that evening we did our own Easter egg hunt with the eggs we had colored the night before. We had to help Will a little more with this hunt than we did earlier in the day, but again by the end of it he was doing pretty well. He also found his Easter basket which had malted eggs and jelly beans in it. For the next several day, the jelly beans were a big hit!
I don't think Will quite understood the difference between the plastic eggs and the dyed eggs, because at one point he broke an egg in half and took a bite. Pretty funny. After Easter he kept pulling the eggs out of the fridge, so I decided to hide them for him around the living room. That game came to a quick end when he tried to break them all in half to find candy. I threw away all the beautiful eggs we had dyed, but we soon resumed our game with clearance plastic eggs from Target that I bought for only $.24!
And of course I can't neglect to mention Olivia. She is growing so fast and is a really well mannered little lady. She gets cuter and cuter everyday.
