We celebrated our first Easter as a family. Last year, Theo was only 4 months old or so last year at Easter so there wasn’t much point in the Easter Bunny or an egg hunt. I think I may have cooked a ham dinner, but baby brain has clouded that memory.
This year I ordered 50 styrofoam eggs online. I wanted the plastic eggs that come in two halves but couldn’t find them anywhere. Also, eggs here are brown which don’t make them good for dying, so they were out, as well. So I bought styrofoam ones and decorated them by gluing decorative napkins to them to make them pretty and after Theo went to bed, Ter and I hid them (in plain sight) around the apartment…which the cats loved.
We had the eggs kicking around the house for more than a week and the cats expressed little to no interest in them. But as soon as we placed them on Theo’s slide or tucked them up next to the DVD player, it became play time. We were subjected all night to the sound of egg after egg being knocked out of hiding and batted across the floor. It could have been annoying, but we chose to be amused instead. Easier that way.
The Easter Bunny also brought Theo a Sprig Toys set of a boat and airplane I had gotten at Costco back in March. I unpacked it from its box and put it Theo’s Easter basket, a basket I upcycled (much nicer word than ‘fished out of the garbage’) on recycling day at our building and decorated with ribbon.
Theo didn’t do too badly with the egg hut. He seemed to enjoy finding some of the eggs then lost interest. The toys were a hit though. Both the boat and the plane came with a man. I didn’t realize that Theo had no human figurines until he babbled on and on about ‘man man man man man’ and was quite excited about them. He also pretty much immediately made airplane noises at the airplane.
So, all in all, it was a good morning at the Hansens and a successful first Easter.
