Making Easter Memories

Noah's old enough now that he get gets excited when he sees holiday stuff at the grocery store and Target. It's not that he understands it's a holiday necessarily, but he loves bright colors and notices any sort of change in his surroundings. Since we head to the grocery store and Target often he immediately points and tells me when a new display is up. A few weeks before Easter, he noticed the egg coloring kits. He happily carried one around in the cart for our whole trip so we ended up buying it.

As Easter approached, I decided it would be fun to add an Easter egg and basket hunt to our many happy family memories. So I let Noah pick out a basket at the store, we grabbed eggs filled with Play-Doh instead of candy and some other small toys for Noah's basket instead of candy.

Noah spent Friday coloring eggs with his friend and then I hid baskets for Ash, Noah and me Saturday night as well as the Play-Doh filled eggs. As soon as Noah went into his play area on Sunday aka our formerly formal living room, he began running around and finding eggs and all the baskets. Laughing the whole time. Inspecting everything. Chatting with Ash and me about what he was finding. He carried around eggs then would hand some to Ash so that he could fit others into his hands. That was until he found his Elmo Easter basket and found one of the Thomas the train cars, a mini Elmo and a nerf football.

We spent the morning laughing and playing and having a really great time. It was so fun to watch Noah's eyes light up as he discovered the different eggs and baskets hidden around the house. It made me so very grateful that we decided to make a baby in November of 2008. Noah's awesome, and watching him enjoy little moments like Easter morning make everything about our lives so much richer. We make so many wonderful family memories every day, but it's really fun when we can surprise him and teach him new things.

He immediately picked up the football. He threw it overhand and then kicked it. He's never played with a football before or seen a football game, but I guess the shape of the ball made him want to throw it like that and then kick it! It's a memory I will cherish forever.