Easter at Home

We had our Easter hunt at home on Sunday afternoon. We decided to hold off until the afternoon because we had a late night on Saturday and we figured that this would be the only year we could get away with manipulating what time the Bunny visited our home.

I made the mistake of telling Maelyn, just before nap time, that we were going to have another egg hunt. By this point, Maelyn was obsessed with the entire Easter experience and just kept saying 'Eggs, Mommy, eggs! Yay!'

About twenty minutes into her nap, she started screaming my name -- this had never happened before, so I rushed up to her room to see what had happened. As soon as I walked into her room, she started jumping up and down and yelling 'Yay, Mama!! Eggs! Eggs!' You can imagine her disappointed when I told her that she had to continue with her nap -- the poor Easter Bunny hadn't had time to hide eggs yet!

Finally, the eggs were hidden, the nap was over, we went for a nice walk and then the fun began!

Maelyn was running for the eggs and was finding them in places we were positive we would have to lead her to...

We didn't let her in on the secret that she could eat the eggs until the hunt was nearly over -- but that didn't stop her from digging right in!

She kept saying, 'Thank you, Mommy! Yummy!'

Opening her Easter gifts

At dinner, we exchanged Easter cards and chocolates. Maelyn kept handing everyone the cards and saying 'Happy Easter!' over and over again. In fact, she continues to say this every time she is happy and she gives someone something -- there is no such thing as Happy anything else in this household -- it is Happy Easter all year round!

Maelyn was now fully convinced that we would have an egg hunt every day -- can you blame her? The first thing she asked for the next morning was eggs. Luckily enough, she tired out before we were able to hunt for eggs that were hidden in the kitchen, so she had some left to find. :)

As soon as she was done, she wanted to sample her treasure. She was not a happy little miss when I told her that she would have to eat her breakfast before she had an egg.

The following pictures distinctly remind me of the first time Maelyn opened her advent calendar...

My little chocolate addict...

Poor little miss...hehe!