Easter has changed quite a bit for us over the past year...last year it was the excitement of the Easter egg hunt itself, seems like we were hiding eggs for weeks before Easter and Addison loved it. This year it was the excitement of what was hidden inside the Easter egg, she didn't really get excited about hunting for eggs until she spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa's and they hid candy in all of the eggs. Hence the Halloween connection - she got more candy in the week leading to Easter than she did at Halloween. Granddad and Meme were not innocent I might add - they didn't put candy in the eggs, but instead just had little chocolate eggs around the house to snack on!
The Easter bunny didn't have any candy, so he hid quarters in the eggs. Turns out that was an acceptable substitute for candy, although he didn't put a quarter in each egg, so Addison had to open every egg as she found it and tell us whether it had a "penny" in it or not. Highlight was when she found the super big egg that the bunny had hidden and that one had a bathing suit and cover-up in it...hands down it beat candy and quarters, especially since it was an Ariel bathing suit with ruffles!
Here is Addison unloading all of the quarters from the eggs. Michael told her she could put 1/2 in her piggy bank and take the other 1/2 to the store and buy something. Her plan is to spend her money on candy, milk and beer for Daddy. Such a nice girl to consider things Daddy likes! She had changed into her new bathing suit to color Easter eggs and left her church shoes on - stylin'.
Also somewhere along the line, the Easter Bunny and Santa got connected. Both magically appear while you are sleeping and you wake up to fun surprises. Michael even threw the tooth fairy into this discussion we had one night and now Addison is afraid her teeth are going to fall out I think. But for a few days after this discussion we'd get up in the morning and Addison would ask if the Easter Bunny came last night. I think that she had almost given up and then he came Saturday night - what a treat!
Aw! She is so cute! I especially love seeing her in her new bathing suit while still wearing her dress shoes! That girl sure does have her own personal sense of style!
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