Easter

On the Saturday before Easter, we got together with some friends for brunch and an Easter egg hunt.  The kids loved the hunt of course.  Jane was pretty good at it, but Peter could be standing on top of an egg and still seem to be looking everywhere but where we're pointing.  He loved it, though, and especially loved how distracted his parents were socializing with their friends.  He really capitalized on that and ate way too much candy.   Man, does that kid love candy.  I suppose that really shouldn't be a surprise.  What kid doesn't love candy?  Well, Jane.  Jane is that kid, I guess.  She could eat smarties, skittles, and "happy laughies" until she was sick, though.  She just doesn't like chocolate.  

 We had so much fun hanging out with our new friends, we didn't want to leave.   We pushed through nap time and coupling that with the sugar overload left us with some pretty nice tantrums.  On Sunday, we decided we would have them hunt for their baskets after church, but Peter got a surprisingly big bucket of Easter goodies from nursery.  Thanks?  With the tantrums that resulted from that, we thought it best to wait until after nap time for our own baskets, and by then, they had already received enough candy anyway.  I only sprinkled a little candy in each basket. 

Jane was eager to search for her basket and found it immediately.  She got a coloring book, new play dough, bubbles, and a princess crown and wand.  She was pretty thrilled, and started dancing around with her crown and wand right away.

 Peter took a little longer, but found his with some help.  He got a coloring book, bubbles, new playdough, and a super hero cape.  He was mostly interested in the candy and sat down and started eating as much as he could right away... like he knew we were going to take it away at any moment.  And of course we did, and had a sugar free day the next day.  Well, I mean they had a sugar-free day.  I had a lot of Easter candy.