Easter- egg hunt

Like I said here, we had a great Easter. It was so nice to have my parents in town and I love that Jade is getting old enough to really enjoy stuff like this. I can't wait until both the girls are, but I'm trying not to wish this time away and be really present in this moment so I won't talk too much about that :)

After we scrubbed all the egg dye off and Jade took a nap, we let her hunt eggs. She had SO much fun. In fact, she demanded that we hide them multiple times and was not very happy when I cut her off after 4 times. And for the record, she was hunting the dyed eggs so it wasn't like she was enjoying it because she was getting candy. She was getting nothing. Except for eggs. Yeah.

Very excited when she first came outside

Found one!

Smelling the flowers :)

Another one smelling the flowers- it doesn't get much cuter than this

Very excited!

Easter- dyeing eggs

We had a great Easter around here. My parents came to town the Thursday before and stayed through the weekend. Jade is at the age where she doesn't quite understand what's happening yet, but she knows that it's something exciting and gets excited about it.

Sunday morning, I told her it was Easter Sunday (she has a book explaining Easter- in a very simple way- so she kind of gets that) and we had an Easter basket downstairs for her with some presents and she said "Christmas tree?" So apparently she remembers more than I think she does! Of course the rest of the day she kept asking for the Christmas tree. Oh well, I tried :)

Somehow, I have no pictures of her "opening" her Easter basket. Honestly, it wasn't all that thrilling- she mostly wanted to play with Piper's. But I do have pictures of her dyeing eggs. I decided to just strip her down and let her have fun and I'm so glad I did because she had a blast. Just a couple highlights:

The beginning- one cup and using the "spoon"

Piper watching :)

Getting dirty...

Licking the spoon

Not a fan

Towards the end: 3 cups, an egg in each hand.

Basically every egg was put in every color and they all looked camouflaged by the end, but she had a great time. Later that day, we did an egg hunt in the front yard and took family pictures, which I'll post soon. 

We made sure to tell her about what Easter is all about, but I can't wait until she's a little older and we can do some more hands-on activities for Easter. Easter should be just as big of a deal as Christmas and I want to treat it that way in our house. I want my girls to know how big of a deal it is and how we need to

spend that day reflecting and being thankful for all of the amazing gifts Jesus has given us.