Outside Egg Hunt with Ian

Ian and Elissa came over in the afternoon to celebrate Easter with us. Ian and Dexy were very excited for the backyard Easter Egg Hunt.

They ran around the yard with their baskets, occasionally squealing with delight when they found one in an unexpected spot. My Bologna was super chill.

Thinking of Grandparents on Easter

After the Easter Egg Hunt, Dexy opened the Easter gifts sent to him by his grandparents.
Grandma and Grampy sent a very silly bunny with a motion sensor that says silly bathroom puns when somebody comes near.

 And a cuddly Peep!

 Dex could tell by the shape of the wrapping paper that Grandma and Gunker had sent things with wheels - two ATVs!

The row of found Easter Eggs became part of the ATV's racetrack on the coffee table (of course they did!).

Hidden in Plain View

Despite the fact that the Easter Bunny hid all of Dexter's eggs in a single room AND within plain view, it took Dex an awfully long time to find them all. He certainly enjoyed the process!

 Can you find the egg in this picture? Dex eventually did!

Dex very methodically took each of his found eggs from his basket and placed them into cardboard holders that came with the egg-dye kit.

Easter Morning

When he went to bed the night before Easter, Dexter refused a cup of water. As he was falling asleep in bed, he explained that he didn't want any water because he didn't want to wake up to go to the bathroom when the Easter Bunny was here.  It worked!

In the morning, Dex found his Easter basket full of goodies.

 Chocolate bunny and

Peeps!

Bunny Cake Preparation

While Dex and I were busy coloring Easter Eggs, Ian and Elissa were at work baking and decorating the Bunny Cake for our Chicago family Easter celebration.

We always think of Kim who introduced all of us to the Bunny Cake.

Egg Decorating Production

Dex and I spent the day before Easter decorating Easter Eggs for the Easter Bunny to hide.

This was the first year that Dex wanted to use the wax crayon.

I was thankful that Dex didn't get any dye on the t-shirt that Ben and I brought back from Austin for him.

Rocket Day False Advertising

I just got the photos from Elissa so this is just being posted even though it happened about a month ago...

Elissa had heard on the radio about a "family friendly" Rocket Day event at a suburban library and talked with Ben and me about us joining her and Ian for it. Unfortunately, it was a Saturday and Ben was working and I was trying to catch up on work. Elissa, being the lovely human being that she is, offered to take Dex along with them so he wouldn't miss out on the excitement of the rockets.

I got a call from Elissa a few hours later letting me know that the Rocket Day "event" was actually a powerpoint presentation about the technical aspects of rockets (you can imagine the crowd at that - Ian and Dex were the only kids).

 The boys sat quietly for a bit in the audience until Ian turned to Elissa and asked, "What are we doing here?" Good point, she thought, and ushered them out of the presentation to the donut table.

They enjoyed some library powerpoint presentation donuts comfortably seated on the floor.

Shortly thereafter she took them to a nearby playground. Just look at how happy they are to be away from Rocket Day.