Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Sunday brought lots and lots of rain for us so we had to improvise and do our Easter egg hunt inside the house rather than outside. While the kids were napping, Mama filled Easter eggs with goodies like M&M's, goldfish crackers, or mini peanut butter cups. Then Dada hid the eggs in our living room. Armed with their buckets, Stella and Des set out to find their eggs.

Stella was all about the hunt and would find an egg, put it in her basket and then look for more eggs. Des, on the other hand, was all about the treats inside the eggs! He would find an egg, then plop down to open the egg, and eat the treat inside before looking for more eggs.

So he didn't get very far in accumulating a lot of eggs, but Stella was nice enough to give him all of the blue, yellow, orange, and green eggs she found, because she only wanted the pink and purple eggs (her favorite colors) =:)

We love this next series of shots that capture Des in the very serious business of getting at the treats inside the egg.

Step 1: Open the egg. ....................................Step 2: Eat the treat.

Step 3: Get another egg and repeat steps 1 & 2.

When Des was going through his eggs, he would take an egg out and shake it. If it didn't rattle, he would toss it aside and move onto another egg and shake it, until he found an egg that rattled, and then he would open it. No one taught him this...it's just sheer instinct!