Easter Hunts at School

We had Easter parties and hunts at school today.

Victoria's class party was in the morning. They had a fun sparkly sticker egg to decorate and a frosted cookie to eat. Here's Victoria's class gearing up for the big hunt.

Victoria really wasn't into the egg hunt. She wasn't as fast as most of them, so she gave up and was just swinging her basket around, showing everyone that it was empty. I'm not sure if she was looking for sympathy or what.

The teacher realized that she didn't have any eggs, so she started dropping them in extremely obvious places for her to pick up. Finally, some eggs and a smile.

Bella's egg hunt was much different than Victoria's. She went in with guns blazing. (She was the first one into the playground when they announced "go".) She collected all twelve of her eggs plus more. She was so fast that all the pictures that I got of her collecting the eggs where of her back- except this one, taken when the hunt was over. She had a blast and was very proud of herself.

Toward the end of her egg hunt, Bella noticed that Victoria's class was playing on the playground next to hers, so she called her over to examine the loot.

Later that day, Bella had her class party. They were given a neat giant pinwheel flower with a picture of themselves. It was inserted into a decorative cup filled with coco puffs and gummy worms. They also made a cool cross out of buttons.

Easter is a tough holiday to explain to kids. Victoria has been asking me a lot about dying lately. Tonight she even said she wanted to play Jesus and die on a cross. But she tells me "don't worry I'll come back to life in three days too."