Celebrating Easter

This past weekend was all about celebrating Easter. On Saturday, we had an Easter egg hunt with the neighbors on the street. After the egg hunt we all went to lunch at Fudruckers. We all had a great time, especially Oliver.

Oliver did great on his first Easter egg hunt, ever! He seemed to know exactly what to do.

Here he is, grabbing an egg with his eye on the next prize.
Some of the big kids decided to let Oliver and the other young kids go first. What great kids! Here they are, waiting inside for someone to let them out to clean up what the little kids missed. Don't worry, there was more than enough for everyone.

Oliver checking out his loot.

Hanging with the Dad's while the big kids took over.

Check out all of those eggs. Nearly every one of them were filled with candy. The next 24 hours were going to be a whole new adventure.

"Three blue eggs, Mommy"

"Here's a big blue egg, Mommy"

"Two pink eggs, Mommy"

Since Oliver is getting older and now knows what candy is, we let him dive into a few of his candy filled eggs. I think he had more candy in these 24 hours that he has had in his whole life combined. We don't usually let him eat much candy. Maybe just a sucker now and then.

He didn't really know what these squishy things were until I told him they were Peeps.

Then when he found out he could eat the Peep, it was gone in seconds.

That night, when Oliver was fast asleep, the Easter bunny came hopping through our house.

The next morning, Oliver was very curious to see what the Easter Bunny had left. He was a little confused because he expected to SEE the Easter Bunny the next day. We had to explain that he had to move on to see other kids, but he left a basket full of goodies.

Oliver checking out all of the fun stuff the Easter Bunny brought him.

Cheese for the camera with his new Night Furry dragon from the movie How to Train Your Dragon.

The basket was complete with a book to go with the new dragon.

A cheesy smile with a chocolate Easter bunny.

For the first year ever, we let him eat party of the bunny. As you can imagine, it was a big hit!

Sunday morning, we also went to church with plans to go to brunch. Oliver crashed about church time and struggled to keep his eyes open. Was it the lack of nap on Saturday (because he was wired and refused it), the excitement of Easter, the 6:30 wake-up or the candy crash. I'm thinking all of the above. We brought him home and he was sleeping in no time. He took a much needed, three hour nap! We'll got to brunch another time.

Sunday afternoon, Oliver discovered a stuffed moose in the basement that Keith's Mom gave him sometime before I was even in the picture. Oliver LOVES it! He likes to wrestle it, hug it and lay on it while watching TV.