Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Eggstravagant Eggstravaganza - Warning: Puns galore!

Well, you can never accuse us of only celebrating halfway. For Easter, we really outdid ourselves. Last year, Elliott did not eat candy yet, so he received some crayons and a couple of eggs with Sesame Street toys. Oh, how much changes in a year! Elliott first received an Easter basket from Nana loaded with goodies (Thank you, Nana!), but the Easter Bunny apparently didn't get the memo.

Here's Elliott on Easter morning, with his stash from the Easter Bunny! He had eggs filled with chocolate eggs and Hot Wheels Cars. And a bunny hand puppet!

Elliott's obvious eggcitement over being allowed candy in the morning....

"I do it! I do it!" Still working on it...

Still working... Stupid wrapper getting in the way. "Mommy. Help."

Thought bubble: "What!?! A whole bunny made of chocolate, just for me? Eggcellent!"

And what would Easter be without jelly beans?? Elliott enjoyed his "gourmet" Jelly Beans, with the eggception of toasted marshmellow and buttered popcorn. As Elliott says, "No like it."

And, of course, we dyed Easter eggs! In a moment of genius, Mommy decided to bring Elliott's table outside and we dyed the eggs in the yard. (Not pictured: Elliott's little buddy, Hayden, who helped us dye eggs. Elliott is a very careful egg dyer, while Hayden is more the "stick your whole hand in" kind of guy.) By the end, Elliott had dyed all of his eggs a brilliant shade of purple, but his hand were miraculously clean.

And of course, there is the Easter Egg Hunt, hosted by Hayden!

Elliott's stash.

More egg hunting.

Elliott finds an egg! How eggstraordinary!

Elliott couldn't wait to find out what was inside the eggs - stickers and fruit snacks!

And our Easter picture. Doesn't get better than that! A great day, but by the end we were egghausted. (Hey, I warned you!)

4 comments:

Alice said...

elliott has EGGcellent taste in jelly beans - those are the 2 flavors of jelly bellys (bellies?) i won't eat either!

that last picture is adorable, although it appears to be of a 6 year old child who looks a lot like your son.

Jim & Lynn said...

Jim says Shannon is eggceptionally dorky but that is why we get along so well. Alex is looking forward to hunting eggs with his buddy Elliott one day. Lynn hopes Alex will like cute hats as much as Elliott and be as cute in them :)

nana said...

I AGREE ALICE HE IS JUST GROWING SO FAST- IF WE SOON DONT GO VISIT HE WILL BE CARRYING US- LOL
AND SHANNON THESE PICS ARE EGGCELLENT!! I LOVE THEM-
LOOKS LIKE ALL OF MY LITTLE FUNNY BUNNIES HAD A HAPPY EASTER AND THAT IS GOOD!

Anonymous said...

So funny that you say Hayden is a stick your whole hand in kind of kid when it comes to egg dyeing. Hayden had bright pink hands and broken eggs within the first minute of dyeing those eggs.