Easter Egg Hunts

Much to Eli's delight, he had three Easter egg hunts this year.  The first was two weeks ago--even before his birthday--at the University of Houston.  The second was at playgroup (they do one every year).  The third was here at home.  He loves showing off his egg-finding skills!  And they are improving.  We used to have to show him where to find most of the eggs, and the hunt took a while.  Now he can find most of them by himself, and he does it in a matter of minutes.  I never thought I'd use an Easter egg hunt as proof of my little boy growing up, but I find proof everywhere lately. 

The University of Houston had several egg hunts for different age groups.  Since it was a week before Eli's birthday, we debated about whether to put him in the 0-3 age group or the 4-8 age group.  We were a little worried that the older age group might not give Eli a fair chance of finding eggs, so we put him in the younger.  We should have done the older because it was a little too easy for him. 

Eli was a little scared of this giant bunny and very reluctantly agreed to take a picture.

This one was at playgroup, and Eli did not want to hold still for a picture.  He wanted to see what goodies he had found, of course.

Since Eli is much more into art projects now, he had much more fun decorating the dyed eggs this year.

We only did half a dozen eggs.  There are only so many hard-boiled eggs three people can eat. :-)  I usually end up making potato salad.

Eli was counting his eggs to make sure he found all that we had hidden around the house.

 Whopper's candy robin's eggs!  I couldn't resist teaching Eli about how they make beautiful and tasty lip color.  He loved it!

As if we didn't have enough treats, huh?  Actually, I made these for my nursery kids.