Easter

The kids went to one big Easter egg hunt this year, with a playgroup that we've been in since Adelaida was only a few weeks old. This playgroup has about 12 active families, all with kids born within four months of Adelaida (12 girls and 1 boy -- not exactly gender balanced!). Several of the families have younger children now as well, and it is so nice to see our kids playing together and growing up together.

The first Easter egg hunt with this group had the one-year-olds crawling/toddling around a back yard, with eggs "hidden" in plain sight and the moms eagerly encouraging their children to pick up the eggs. Oh, what fun that was!










The group's second Easter egg hunt was marginally more difficult. Several eggs were at least hidden behind rocks or at the bottom of a slide, and all the kids had a pretty good idea of what to do with the eggs. (Yes, Adelaida is wearing the same Easter dress as she wore the previous year. It was such a good dress, I got as much wear out of it as I could!)

We weren't able to go to last year's Easter egg hunt and really missed out on seeing the kids all together and dressed up for Easter.

This year's hunt was at a friend's house in the backyard. Twenty kids, more than 200 eggs, and the kids definitely knew what to do! The egg hunt itself was complete chaos, with kids running everywhere, screaming in joy whenever they got an egg. It was fantastic.

Here are some pictures from this year's Easter egg hunt party:

Adelaida and her friends playing on the playset


Adelaida, Shreya, Ann, and Mireille dancing on the "stage," with Cordelia on her way to join them


Time for the egg hunt! Estella considered picking up several eggs, but rejected all of them until she saw this little orange egg. She was so excited, she picked it up and just wanted to carry it around the rest of the hunt. She wouldn't put it in her bucket and refused to pick up any other eggs. Just this one little orange egg, and she was happy!


Cordelia found an egg! Of all our kids, Cordelia was the clear master of the Easter egg hunt. She found about a dozen eggs -- she would pick each one up, shake it, drop it in her bucket, and quickly move on to find another. She was even finding the hidden eggs!


Estella with her orange egg. You can see Dale in the background, carrying her bucket for her. All she wanted to carry was that one orange egg!






Cordelia's bucket is getting pretty full!


Estella still has her orange egg.


Dale and I walked around with Estella and Cordelia for the Easter egg hunt, and kind of lost track of Adelaida. By the time I saw her, she was running around with some friends and another little boy was walking off with her bucket! Her bucket had only three eggs in it at that point, but another mom said she had been finding a lot of eggs, so I'm not sure exactly where all of her eggs ended up. She didn't mind though -- she was perfectly happy with her three eggs!

Ann, Mireille, Orla, and Shannon check out the loot from their eggs!


We tried to get a picture of all the kids, but of course failed. Fourteen kids posing for the picture, two in the background, and four (including two of mine!) missing from the picture. Not bad, all things considering!


Estella, Cordelia, and Adelaida. Estella is still holding her orange egg, Cordelia has a bucket full of eggs, and Adelaida lost track of her bucket. Happy Easter!