Oliver declared today that he loves "Happy Easter". The day started out in fairly typical fashion. Oliver had a big breakfast, we picked our word for the day (Happy Easter) and then he wasted no time getting his trains organized. Joe ran a couple of errands, so we waited to have him "find" his Easter basket. When Joe got home, we had to convince him to leave his trains to come see what the Easter bunny left for him. We've been reading a couple Easter books this week, so I hoped he might get the idea in his mind that the Easter bunny leaves eggs. Once he finally came in to check it out, he was in total awe. By far his favorite of the Easter treats were the three Easter eggs that had matchbox cars in them (one yellow car, one white car, and one fire truck). He also got a book about cars that tells a story about a car, called the "Easter buggy," that brings treats to the other cars. After reading the book he started calling the white car, Easter buggy. He also got a bigger toy car to go with is little family dolls. He calls this car his "Happy Easter car". He spent most of the day playing with his new vehicles.
We also painted Easter eggs. This was probably the highlight of my day. I had talked about coloring Easter eggs and our books have pictures of colored eggs. But, I did not expect him to be so excited about coloring eggs or to dive in without any instruction. I found some all natural egg dyes from Glob. I set everything up and then asked if he wanted to color Easter eggs. He ran to the table and was totally ready to go. He kept telling us he was decorating the Easter eggs. It was a huge mess, but totally worth it.
Then tonight, we baked banana bread. When I told him we were making bread, he told me that bread is made with flour, eggs and sugar. I explained that we were going to add bananas to the bread and he seemed to think that was pretty great idea. After dinner, I asked if he wanted to try the banana bread we made. After gobbling up a slice, all he said was "more banana bread, please!"
He took his bath with and fell asleep holding the yellow car, the fire truck and the Easter buggy (in his egg dye stained hands).
Happy Easter!
Looks like it was an absolutely perfect day!! Loooove that last picture if him. He's so cute!!
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