We hope that everyone had a great Spring celebration/Easter. We certainly did and the intent of this post is to summarize everything that we did (which was quite a bit) into one post.
The first celebration was at Ellie's school. The Friday before her spring break they did an egg hunt and had a party. Being on maternity leave I was able to volunteer to help hide the eggs and watch the egg hunt. Each kid who wanted to participate was asked to bring 5 plastic eggs with a little trinket inside. We filled the eggs Ellie took with chocolate scented scratch and sniff stickers. The parents hid the eggs on the school playground. We hid some in easy locations (on the ground or in very visible locations) for the younger kids. And hid some in more difficult locations for the older kids. The younger kids had a head start if a few minutes. At first Ellie was a little discouraged because she lost a few foot races to the remaining "easy" eggs. But then she realized that there were other "harder" eggs and she quickly spotted them and found her alotted five eggs. Then the kids gathered at their picnic tables to open the eggs and observe their loot and talk about the hunt. I didn't get to stay for the party which was held later that afternoon as it was only for the kids. But I heard that everyone had a great time! As part of the party the kids made little Peep nests, well nests for Peeps with some candy eggs. They were absolutely adorable and Ellie was really cute as she was very protective of her Peep (knowing I LOVE Peeps!)
The very next day, after her school egg hunt, was the City of Pasadena Spring Festival and Egg Hunt which was held at the park near our house. We arrived early as they had a pancake breakfast with the Easter bunny. We also met up with friends at the festival.
After breakfast was the egg hunt. Well not so much a hunt as an egg grab. Hundreds of eggs scattered on a field with hundreds of kids to grab them. Ellie and her friend both got a decent haul, but not too much that they got more than their share or trampled over younger kids to get them. The hunt was divided into two age groups, 0-5 and 6+. So for this hunt Ellie was one of the bigger kids.
Then after the egg hunt we spent the afternoon at the festival. There was face painting, balloon animals, a bouncy house, science experiments (slime and bubbles) and all sorts of other fun. Ellie and her friend and the younger brothers (well Cal just hung out in the stroller) all had a blast.
Last weekend (Easter weekend) we headed up to Santa Barbara. Aunt Susu came into town and so we all hung out in SB for a few days. On Saturday night we did some egg decorating which turned out really well and E had fun. Then in Easter Aunt Susie hid some eggs in the Grandparentals Van backyard. We didn't count the eggs (plastic ones) before they were hidden so we aren't sure (although pretty confident) that Ellie found them all. Then Ellie hid the eggs for Susie to find.
Our numerous celebrations were all quite fun and everyone had a great time. I'm not sure Calvin noticed anything new, but I'm sure he had a blast as well.
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