The Chronicles of Tadpole and Little Cub: Easter

Easter was a beautiful sunny day. So sunny I even got a sun burn. I’m strangely happy about this since we haven’t had this much sun in a while. The sad part about the day is that Kayley, Shilo and I had colds (and still do, along with Andrew) that we didn’t want to spread to our dear friends at church. We thus stayed home and missed Easter service. =( We were very bummed about that. But my family gave the okay for us to still join them for the rest of the day since they had already been exposed to our germs.

A beautiful day

We started our day slow and gave the girls their Easter baskets at home. We don’t know how much Kayley understood, but we explained to her that she and her sister were getting a special gift because on Easter we remember the greatest gift that was given to us: Jesus’ life, followed by His resurrection so that by grace we can be forgiven of our sins. She has been reading her Easter book a lot lately, so we have told her that Jesus got a really bad ouchy to help us not get the worst ouchy of all, and that His ouchy only lasted three days. Every time she reads her Easter book, she spends more time looking at the page where it shows Jesus’ friends being sad that He died on the cross. Many conversations have thus happened in relation to that scene.

Chewing her new book

Kayley reading Shilo's book to her new sheep

We then headed over to my mom’s for a quick lunch and nap time. Nap time was followed by chalk time so Kayley could use one of her new gifts. She really liked being able to draw on the ground and was very interested in helping you draw your picture. She eventually decided to draw her own picture.

Then it was time to look for eggs! Kayley and her cousins, Sara and Katie, were exiled to a room while me, Andrew, my mom, sister and brother-in-law hid eggs for them to find. Andrew and Rick had fun hiding eggs for the older girls, while us ladies had fun putting eggs all over the grass and deck for Kayley to find. We hid a few eggs for the older girls to find too.

Find the egg!

Kayley was pretty excited to look for eggs, and she caught on pretty quick to what she was supposed to do. As her bucket filled she marched around the yard saying “more more!” as she found more and more eggs. She was so into it that I had her give her aunty the eggs she had collected at one point so that Heidi could hide them in the yard again. Kayley was a delighted little girl, and Shilo slept through the whole thing. Sara and Katie had a lot of fun too, and their eggs were really hidden. It was fun when Kayley figured out the eggs opened and that there were little surprised inside. Hers were all candy free, and filled with stickers, a few small toys, “toddler snack” instead. I believe a craft time involving many stickers will be happening soon.

Collecting eggs

"More! More! More!" This is how she was marching around.

We had a lovely dinner that followed that my mom mostly prepared, and had a fun time at the table together. Then for dessert we had Easter Basket Cake. Something I grew up eating for Easter.

Kayley and I are behind the camera

The Easter Basket Cake

And since it was so sunny, we took some lovely and fun family pictures too. This is when we discovered, that unlike Kayley, Shilo loves to play with grass. It was so hard to get her to look at the camera because she kept watching her toes wiggle in the grass and watching her fingers touch the grass. So cute!