Easter morning started out super early, as it always does. Before letting the kids loose to go find eggs or look at their Easter baskets though, I insisted they get dressed for church first. Chloe was trying her hardest to collect all the eggs that she found in her room, while we were getting everyone dressed:
We have a rule that nobody gets to go out and see their baskets (and it’s same rule for Christmas for checking their stockings) until Mommy and Daddy say it’s time, and everyone goes out together. Dinah was a bit of a stinker and dashed out to look while I was getting someone else dressed. I immediately went after her, and brought her back down the hall, and she was crying. Crying that everyone got a toy EXCEPT HER! To back up and explain a bit, last night Dinah had set her basket at Kyle’s place on the table. And she put his basket, in her place. I saw this and after we put the kids to bed, I switched them back to where they should be. So when she came running out on her own this morning, she was looking at Kyle’s basket, thinking it was hers. Kyle didn’t get a toy, just plenty of chocolate. She threw quite the fit, bawling the whole time I was helping her dress. Once we had everyone dressed, and had the cameras ready we let them out to the living room and dining room. That’s when I got to show Dinah that there really was a toy in her basket and that she was just looking at Daddy’s basket. And suddenly that horrible fit, completely vanished, and Dinah was all smiles after that.
The kids also had fun finding the eggs that had been hidden by the Easter Bunny. The bunny hid plastic eggs with goodies inside them, this year. I think Kyle and I have decided that we like this better than the bunny hiding hard boiled eggs, simply because if the kids don’t find them all first thing in the morning, but find an egg hours later (or even days later) we know the goodies will still be ok. That just wouldn’t be the case with a hard boiled egg. Lydia found 2 eggs during the egg hunt, and was perfectly content with those. She just sat there banging them together (another good reason that they were plastic and not hard boiled 😉 ).
After the kids were done hunting eggs we had a very happy breakfast before going to church (which started at 9am):
The day didn’t end there though. After church we headed out to go to Granny’s house for dinner. She had made ham and turkey, and the kids got to play with their cousins while the adults just hung out.