The Easter Bunny visited...in April! Just catching up!

The Easter Bunny Came…. in April, of course!

In typical fashion, we colored eggs with the kids and our au pair on Easter eve. We colored eggs, painted eggs, dropped eggs and broke eggs. We put on bunny ears and took goofy pictures and just had a lot fun together.

The kids went to bed VERY excited to find out if the Easter Bunny would visit. Gabby told me she asked the Easter Bunny for a puppy… so I had to tell her that puppies and dogs sometimes “catch” bunnies. So, the Easter bunny might not bring a puppy because of the conflict of interest. Let’s hope that excuse keeps working for a few more years. Last thing we need to add to our already chaotic lives right now is a dog!

Easter Sunday was nice. The kids woke up and were of course very excited to search the house for their Easter baskets. The Easter bunny usually hides the baskets in funny spots throughout the house. And, this year, he hid a lot of eggs filled with candy outside in the yard… so we spent some time searching for those as well. The kids had so much fun with this and Gabby and Rocco raced around the yard trying to find eggs. We had to put Giuliana in front of a few eggs and point at them to get her interested. She was hooked after she opened one egg and found a jelly bean. Gotta love the power of sugar, right?!

Good friends joined us that afternoon for another egg hunt with all the kids (7 total). Everyone brought more eggs which resulted in a giant egg hunt in our yard. We must have hid 100 eggs and the kids spent a good 30 minutes running around the yard filling their baskets with eggs. It was a lot of fun to watching them run around with so much excitement. Then, we had a really nice typical Easter dinner… ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, salad, etc.