Easter 2107

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

Easter goodies.

Our kids don't believe in the Easter Bunny, but they do know that Easter is a time when Mommy hides eggs around the house (and Daddy *kindly* obliges).  A quick trip to Target (for gifts) and Whole Foods Market (for some treats) on Saturday afternoon and I was armed with all the supplies I needed!

Close-up of each kid's stash.

On Easter morning Bryon took the boys on a backyard hike and I got to work hiding eggs throughout our house.  When everybody returned, I gave a bucket to each kid and they went straight to work on finding each and every egg.  It worked out well that I hid half of the eggs upstairs and the other half upstairs.  Maks went upstairs with Bryon while I stayed downstairs with Deklan.  It worked perfectly, as they ended up meeting in the foyer.  We let them open the eggs and eat a bit of candy - pooling the remainder back into the original containers that they came in.  I don't think the kids have remembered to ask for candy more than once or twice since (although it's still disappearing!).

Finding eggs hidden in the Train Station Roundhouse.

Collecting.

This was Deklan's first ever Easter egg hunt!

After wrapping up the egg hunt, we headed outside to the deck where I'd set up their springtime gifts. They each received a clay flower pot with decorating paint, a watering can, a grass growing kit, an aqua shot pool toy, chalk and a bath bomb.  Deklan received some brand new crayons while Maksim was given some Splash Bombs for retrieving in the swimming pool.  Everything was a hit!

He thinks it's so cool that these animal pots can grow long hair (grass) that you can trim!  ("Just like me...but I don't want to trim mine.")

After lunchtime, we decided to skip naps and take a quick trip to the garden store so that the boys could pick out flowers to plant in their clay pots.  Maksim ended up choosing white flowers while Deklan preferred pink ones.

The weather was SO nice (87 degrees and sunny!) that we decided to pack up the bikes and head to the park.  I found a little park in a neighboring town that has a skate park, which Maksim has been dying to try!  We played on the playground for a bit and then headed to to ramps.  Lucky for us, we had the entire skate park to ourselves.  Maksim thoroughly enjoyed riding as fast as he could throughout, and Deklan held his own learning to glide for longer periods of time on the balance bike. He even asked to try Maksim's pedal bike!  Before we know it we'll have two cyclists on our hands!

Once home, we painted the clay pots and planted flowers.  Then the boys hit the bathtub - making sure the try out a bath bomb! - followed by bedtime stories and some much needed sleep (for us all, as Daddy is off to San Francisco again for the week).