Easter 2015

Easter 2015 will forever be known as, “the Easter that Mom brought an entire sprial-cut ham to Shanghai in her suitcase.” For real. She also brought Gruyere cheese and leeks. Love my mama!

Easter morning was dark and drizzly, but that did not damper our spirits. The Easter Bunny was busy this year and had baskets for Isla, Daddy, and Nana. Isla also had Easter presents from Nana J and Nana and Papa! What a lucky little chick- she was opening goodies all morning! I was so excited for this Easter, because Isla is old enough to start really getting into our celebrations. I’ll admit, I have been dreaming of her first Easter egg hunt for months… Isla first seeing her Easter baskets.She went straight for the bunny!Isla has been visiting a class bunny, named Marvel, at my school every day. She calls him, “Marble”  and she adores him. The bunny that Nana J got for her happens to look exactly like Marvel, so he promptly became, “Baby Marble.”Playing with her Easter card.Meeting “Bunny” from Nana and Papa.It was also love at first sight!Hair bows! Isla was thrilled and insisted upon wearing them immediately. All of them…Thank you, Nana J, and Nana and Papa, for all of the sweet Easter goodies!!!Isaac’s beloved headphones got left on a train ride earlier this year- huge bummer! I had planned to give him these for his birthday, but knew that he would NEVER expect them in his Easter basket, so I opted for the surprise. He was indeed surprised.The Easter Bunny had so much fun finding goodies for her basket. Inside were some really awesome new books (TouchThinkLearn: Numbers, Little Yoga, Pantone Colors), a toddler Once Upon a Yoga Mat DVD, toothbrushes, bubbles, crayons, a fun bath toy, and some darling headbands.Inside the eggs were three of these sweet turban headbands!

Black and White Headbands. Leopard Print Headband.The “bubb-ohs” were a huge hit and Isla chased them around all morning.New “cuh-yers!” Isla was pumped. She immediately set to work creating masterpieces and trying to peel the paper off of each crayon (one of her favorite pasttimes).The Easter Bunny brought Isla THREE new toothbrushes, since she gnawed her first toothbrush down to practically a stub! After Easter baskets were finished, Isla modeled some of her new spring/summer clothes that Nana brought from the states. She was in love with her darling new jellies and pranced all through the house in them.Later that morning, Isla dyed her first Easter eggs. She loved it!The little wire egg holder was a bit challenging to use, so Isla opted to pick up the eggs with her hands. She happily dunked her eggs over and over.We hosted dinner and Nana set up this beautiful table scape, all centered around Isla’s beautiful Easter Egg paintings.Nana also brought all of these yummy chocolate Easter bunnies. They made for cute decor, and yummy card-playing snacks later that week.The rain subsided long enough for us to dart outside and have an Easter egg hunt with Isla and Lucas before dinner.

Isla spots her first Easter egg…Gets distracted picking up cherry pits…Aaand she’s back on track. Success!Isla collecting her first Easter egg.It did not take long for the kiddos to understand the objective of the hunt, and they were off!There she goes! Love that determination!

Lucas was first to discover that the eggs opened and there were stickers inside.

Gotta be quick!

I love this sweet qipao dress that Auntie Molly and Auntie Amy gave Isla for her birthday! I knew right away it would be the perfect Easter dress.

After all of the eggs had been found and collected, Isla and Lucas played outside on Isla’s car.Here Lucas is asking if (and trying to convince Isla that) she was finished on the car. Too funny!Woo hoo!

Lucas found Isla’s new headbands. Thug life.

Love these two little Easter cuties!