Elmo & Easter

Happy Easter everyone! :)

In the Sunday paper last week, Ric saw this cute Elmo Easter basket - and since Ryan is more than a little obsessed with Elmo, we decided to et it for him.

It was small, and only held a few things, but Ryan loved it when he saw it! "oooooooooohhhhh," he said, and proceeded to dump everything out of it.

Ryan still isn't old enough to anything about the Easter Bunny, or Egg hunts, or Easter for that matter, but it was still fun watching him spread the plastic Easter grass all over!

I think that he was wondering what the big idea was. "Why are you making me sit with this stuff while you take a picture?" At least that's what he looks like he's thinking!

His favorite goodies from the baskets? The candy of course! (Most of it was for mom and dad, but he enjoyed crinkling the candy wrappers!)

By the way, Peeps are usually an Easter favorite. Have you ever tried them frozen? YUM! Ryan liked them too - but ended up losing many to the carpet fuzz.

We spent some time with family in the afternoon for an Easter "Brunch." The older cousins hid the eggs so the little ones could go out and find them. Ryan didn't quite get it, but it was cute to see him carrying his basket around! We tried to point out the eggs so he'd pick them up and put them in the basket, but most of the time, he just picked them up and dropped them back where they were.

One funny thing, the older boys were trying to help Ryan by putting eggs into his basket for him. He didn't like that one bit! At one point, he actually threw his basket down and had a little tantrum!

Doesn't he look cute with his little basket? The confused look on his face is priceless!



Hmmm....maybe if he's upside down, he'll find the eggs that are hidden way up high! (Just don't drop him Dad!)












Even though we were hunting for eggs, Ryan couldn't help but find some other treasures to put into his basket. Things like, golf balls, old plastic toy parts, sticks, rocks. They were all there for the taking!


So that was Easter, nothing too exciting, but we were able to get some cute pictures. Ryan had a good time playing with his cousins, and we enjoyed visiting everyone.

But....


....the real truth came out today...apparently, Ryan really didn't like the egg idea. look where I found them this morning! (Don't you just love our white and turquoise toilet? hehe)