Egg-cellent Easter

Jed and I belong to a fun playgroup here in town. There are about 7 moms and all our kids who try to get together once a week. We rotate through houses and mostly let our kids create havoc while we eat and talk. Today was our Easter play group. It was a great day--warm, a little windy, but perfect for playing with lots of eggs and eating plenty of candy.

We all brought a bunch of hard-boiled eggs to dye. One of the moms found the Paas egg-dyes that are q-tips with dye in them, and you just draw on the eggs. The kids had a blast, and we moms liked that it was less messy.

Jed loves q-tips (wonder where he got that?) and had a blast drawing on his eggs. He's really not asleep in this picture, I promise!

Jed's finished eggs.

After the egg dyeing we got things set up for the egg hunt. We hid eggs for the older kids and spread eggs on the grass for the little'uns.

Can you feel the excitement?!

Jed liked carrying his basket when it was empty.

Our little'uns hunting eggs. I loved watching them. It took them all a second to catch on, but once they did, the competition was FIERCE!

After he got a couple of eggs in his basket, Jed just left it on the grass and ferried eggs back and forth. It seemed to be a good system until the two little girls found his eggs and put them in their baskets.

Everybody looking for any straggling eggs.

Jed made out like a bandit!

I'm really grateful to have fallen in with such a nice group of women here. There's a good mix of older and younger kids and boys and girls and all the kids get along pretty well. We always have fun, as today definitely proves. Another upside to play group days? Jed always takes an amazing nap once we get home!