We had a very full Easter this year. Beatrice started her holiday off on Thursday with an egg hunt at preschool. Then the following day, we hosted our own egg hunt in the backyard - 14 toddlers and 7 infants came to look for eggs filled with candy, stickers, and small toys.
Baskets labelled and ready for the hunt
Beatrice made this banner herself.
Jack with the tiny camera he found inside one of the eggs
Then on Sunday morning Beatrice got dressed in her fancy Easter dress (which she had been waiting to wear for months) and came with my parents and me to church* for the first time - and of course, the church hosted a third Easter egg hunt, with even more toys and candy.
Beatrice and her school friends Ella and Sophia gather eggs at church
Then we returned home and sat down to a big brunch with Lucas, Veronika, their twins, and Veronika's parents Yuri and Irena.
We also opened the baskets the Easter bunny left - I forgot to photograph them, but B's basket included a rubber stamp kit, two books, a pair of elegant white dress-up gloves, a sticker playset, a kaleidoscope, and a magnifying box for viewing the worms and bugs she and Dev find in the yard. Arthur's basket consisted of a book, a plastic airplane, and a stuffed toy, all three of which he already owned, I just put them in a basket and gave them to him again (poor Arthur). At least my parents brought Arthur his own new stuffed sheep.
In all the excitement, sadly, there was no time to dye eggs, but we'll save that for next year...
*At St. Mark's Episcopal Church, the same place B goes to preschool.
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