Happy Easter!

Step One: coloring the Easter eggs. These pictures look more cooperative than things really were. It was survival of the fittest in getting the desired colors.







Here they are trying to sing "Easter bunny" so I could get a photo of them smiling, but it only half worked. Josh's flapping hands are cute though.





Lucas is proud of his Easter artwork and trying to give a good camera smile, note the raised eyebrows.




After some late afternoon naps due to our trip to Dallas' Deep Ellum Arts Fest yesterday (with naps lasting as late as 6 pm), we finally got everyone to bed by 10:30 (!!) and the Easter Bunny got to work.


First, the baskets and table layout:




Then, finding some clever egg placements:

Josh came to our bed at 3 am, telling us the Easter bunny didn't come. Obviously the dead dark of night kept him from seeing the tell-tale signs. We told him it was the middle of the night and he should go back to sleep to give the Easter bunny more time to arrive. We let him stay in our bed -- big mistake. Every couple of hours he'd ask if it was time to get up yet. I needed another long nap today!

Then around 7 am, we heard the knocking on our bedroom door. Lucas. We opened the door and found him standing there with 3 eggs in his hands, proudly announcing he'd already found 3 eggs. We had a short family meeting to go over the game plan: walk back to your rooms with no egg-hunting; change Lucas' diaper; meet at kitchen table to get egg baskets; then begin egg hunt. Said plan fell apart the second they left our room, though we did eventually get all those tasks done. But seeing the eggs just laying there waiting to be found was too much temptation for little boys! They had to collect a few on the way to their rooms!