Easter

We took a little from each paycheck from the end of February until Easter for new dresses, shoes and other things spending about twenty each time. The girls were very patient in leaving the store without something each time. The first time it was just Abbi who walked away with a dress, the second visit was a dress for Alona and the third were shoes for both of them and a new shirt for Kacen!
The children woke up and found their baskets first. They were occupied for awhile before coming in to our room excitedly and telling us all about what they had found in the living room. Their baskets which held a chocolate bunny, a bucket, chalk and a book. Alona sat down with her brother and sister and read their books to them before telling Mom what they had found. They were able to be distracted with breakfast before demanding to open the back door and go hunting. While lying in bed I could hear Mom, she's peeking through the blinds! Abbi kept tattling, Alona was too excited and knew that if she looked in to the back yard she would be able to see Something.
They were real cute and had a lot of fun. The girls went on their own and found enough to fill their baskets, Abbi even ran over to Kacen every once in awhile and put eggs in his basket for him.
They found candy, eggs, squirt guns and bubbles outside. All of the non-candy treasures were fun things that we were able to do with them after church. Abbi draws her own people now! Kacen blows bubbles with his mouth touching the wand, not many bubbles come out that way.
We stayed at home on Easter and enjoyed the children. Blowing bubbles, coloring pictures, Kacen learned how to use gis squirt gun that he got at a city Easter hunt, he calls it his sword.
They had fun decorating eggs on Thursday. We did it when Paul was home, he boiled the eggs! They each got four eggs to decorate. Kacen kept wanting more eggs to do so I kept handing him his same four over and over. They got very brightly colored, his blue one even had stripes. Abbi was good at dipping only half of her egg in at a time and Alona loved to decorate hers, her eggs had a LOT of stickers. I think that I learned a lesson, we hid the real eggs with the plastic eggs and then ate the real eggs for lunch right before church. I was quite sick from eating that egg, now I know for years to come... don't hide the real eggs until you are ready to find them, not hours before.
The children got Easter books from me right before church, they were all different, one was the old testament, one was the new testament and there were other fun stories to read and color. Alona had more fun reading all about hers before going back and picking one to color.