Happy Easter

The Easter Bunny stopped at our house sometime during the night to the utter amazement of Brandon and Bailey. When the 2 boys awoke this morning they found a little collection each of Easter eggs on their floor. Luckily I had woken up before the kids so many Easter eggs had found their way into the front and back garden in all sorts of places just ready for an Easter egg hunt. Brandon was the first of the 3 men up, and then Bailey woke care of Brandon, and then daddy woke care of Brandon and Bailey.

The 2 boys were so incredibly excited about the Easter egg hunt. The Easter Bunny last night had left small white footprints across the deck and throughout the backyard. It looked like the Easter Bunny jumped on the swings and the playground and then onto the trampoline. What an active little Bunny. So the 2 boys with daddy and I in tow, grabbed some big buckets and went off collecting eggs outside. There was squeals of delight and pure excitement. There was laughter and a great flurry of activity in the rush to find all the Easter eggs. They found all the eggs and then continued to look and look for any more just in case they had missed some. They hadn't. So the next few hours involved Bailey ripping the foil off all his eggs and tipping them everywhere and chucking them everywhere while Brandon neatly tucked his away in his room to store them where no-one else could find them. It was his secret stash. It was a good display of the kid's personalities shining through.

I had said to the boys that they could eat as much chocolate as they wanted today but once the evening came around that would be it for the night. There was a point where they had to stop. Both boys were very good with their chocolate consumption. Bailey just ripped the foil off a vast majority of his chocolate and then broke all the chocolate up, threw it all on the floor and then proceeded to ride his bike over it all. Brandon was very controlled. He just liked to check all day how much he had and how colourful it all collectively looked.

As the morning developed, daddy and I thought it best that we all go out and let the 2 boys have a big run around. We went out to the local beach, alongside everyone else, where we all had a great time. We were out and about for many hours. Bailey rode his bike for many kilometres. He was so very good on it. He went slow when there was a lot of people around and then very fast when the footpath was less populated. He just rode and rode. Brandon requested to take his scooter but 10 seconds into him riding on it, he got cranky at it. So I rode it, carried it and cursed it. At least I kept up with Bailey while riding it. The 2 boys played in a huge park under the shade of some beautiful old trees. Eventually we started heading back as we still had a long distance to go. Fortunately we all found a very well located ice cream shop that we ordered up big in. Eventually we did arrive back to our nice cool car parked under the shade of some more beautiful big old trees. Bailey had a sleep and continued to do so while at home. Even though it wasn't for long it was still long enough so that it then took me 2 hours to get him to sleep tonight.

The afternoon was spent inside and then outside searching for some more Easter eggs thanks to Brandon. Daddy hid some for the boys so they did end up with another 2 each. I jumped on the trampoline with Bailey for ages. We laughed and played and wrestled. It was great fun.  Now I'm sitting here on the lounge with my lovely husband snoring away beside me while the 2 boys are finally asleep. We all had a great Easter Sunday today. Happy Easter everyone.