Easter Shenanigans

Disclaimer: Prepare for a photo overload!!

We started our Easter weekend celebration a few days early with some coloring eggs and making daycare treats. 

This was the first time Madden has colored Easter eggs and he was super excited. He appointed a color for all the eggs for each family member and friend of his. He was very eager to get those eggs colored and not a huge fan of having to wait for them to dry. 

He wanted to eat the eggs right away. He hasn't been a huge fan of scrambled eggs or eating eggs of any kind for the past year so I made sure to explain to him these eggs were real eggs and not chocolate or candy. His response was "I like chocolate!" So we cracked open a hard-boiled egg and each took a bite. I asked him if he liked it, shaking his head yes he said "Yeah I like it" all while giving a disgusted look on his face. He took one more little nibble then gave me the rest of the egg and said "Here mom you eat it!" So funny!

We whipped up a last minute Easter treat for daycare, bunny bait. We mixed Annie's graham cracker bunnies with vanilla yogurt covered raisins and Easter colored M&M's in cute little bunny bags from Target's Dollar Spot!

Saturday morning we headed down to the Freight House and Farmers Market for what was suppose to be some Easter fun. We saw Nora and Brooks from daycare, we always seem to be running into them at events. Great minds think alike ;) The turn out at the farmers market was a bit crazy. The indoor market and activities were jammed packed that we didn't even attempt to find the cookie decorating or crafts. The outside egg hunt was a disaster. Madden and Nora were in the front of the crowd and lets just say neither of them got even ONE egg! There were adults grabbing eggs by the handfuls for their kids, it was terrible and extremely disappointing for the kids. I felt so horrible for taking him to what I thought would be fun. Thankfully a nice mother saw Madden's tears and heard he didn't get any and give him one of her daughters eggs since she has multiples. It definitely helped save the day except the candy inside was a Jolly Rancher, who give 4 and under Jolly Ranchers?!? So mean mommy wouldn't let him eat it. 

We had a big Easter egg hunt planned at my brothers later Saturday afternoon so that saved the day. MJ absolutely loves his cousins and always wants to see them. He really loves playing with all of them. Together they played this really fun game with Harper, that went a little like "Let's all go in a circle and walk over the baby!" And was immediately stopped once one suggested "Let's jump over her". Oh man, Harper's going to have to learn to hold her own being the youngest.  

I don't know how people take pictures of kids, especially more than one because they are all over the place. This was seriously the best picture I could get of these four. Always looking in different directions. LOL

Kiddos had a blast looking for the eggs. Stella was super excited about finding a red egg, she kept yelling she had found it then she threw it down and ran away to look for another one. At the end they were all searching for the very last hidden eggs. Madden ended up finding one more and Stella started yelling at him to put it in her basket. These kids are just too funny. 

Game faces on! The kids sure took their egg hunting serious lol

And of course their favorite part, opening the eggs to find out what's hidden inside. Madden calls them prizes. 

My little cuddly bunnies on Easter morning!

Easter morning both kids slept in and Madden came into our room to cuddle and watch cartoons. We had to remind him the Easter Bunny had came while he was sleeping. He ran to the window to look outside, thinking the bunny left more eggs outside (that bunny might have to do that next year!). Then he ran out to the living room, Dave and I just waited and listened for his reaction. After a minute or two of searching he screamed in delight then came running to our bedroom wanting us to come see the presents and eggs he found. 

All morning long Madden kept telling us how "cited" he was and how "it's so citing" everything was. He continued to put candy back in all his eggs and re-hide them ALL.DAY.LONG.