(Audrey at Daffodil Gardens, 18 mos.)Easter had such a big effect on Audrey that...
1. Every time she sees an egg of any sort she says: "Ap-en" (open)
2. If you show her a picture of a Rabbit she will say: "Bunny...Hop, Hop".
3. From the moment she wakes up she says: "Dan-dy, Dan-dy, Dan-dy" (candy)
4. She does not have a preference to any sort of candy...it's all good!
(Jelly-Beans, yum, yum)The week before Easter we went to the Daffodil Gardens in Gladewater, TX to have Audrey's picture taken in her Easter Dress. We had a basket full of empty plastic eggs except for one. That egg had 4-5 jelly beans in it and Audrey found it right away. A lot of the pictures of her are of her in mid-chew.
(Ah, this looks like some great sand)From then on she knew what to do with a plastic egg! We were invited to a Mom-kid Easter play-date on the Thursday before Easter. All the kids/moms had a blast playing outside. They had sidewalk chalk, bubbles, a swing-set and a sand box all ready to play on. So at this Easter hunt, Audrey knew what the eggs were for but she was content to stop at the first egg and Ap-en it.
(Ap-en?!)Then on Easter Audrey got a big basket full of "Dan-dy" and outside toys (bubbles/chalk). I let her have 1 piece of candy before breakfast and before I knew it she was trying to eat the chocolate easter egg with the foil wrapper on it still.
Later on that day we went to our friends house, the Woodens, for an awesome lunch and Easter fun. We ended up joining their neighbors, the Rineharts, for a awesome egg hunt. I wasn't going to let Audrey participate because she already had so much Dan-dy but Ms. Christy would not have any of that. She was of the mind that "All girls need more candy!"
(Dan-dy?)The next day Audrey and several others were real cranky from their sugar crash. We had a blast.
