The first was with Grammie and Poppa. Their neighborhood hosted a hunt. Here is Poppa entertaining Caden before the hunt began.
Grammie had a calmer approach for entertaining Caroline.
Caden was anxious to get started and collected several eggs before the hunt began. He didn't understand why he needed to wait and was a little frustrated. By the time the hunt began, Caden had lost interest and went to play elsewhere.
Caroline did a nice job collecting eggs.
But she did an even better job collecting rocks! For some reason, Caroline loves rocks. Any time we are outside, she looks for the biggest rock she can find.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...one of those two! Caden loves seeing both flying through the air.
The best part of this hunt was I got a small bag of chocolate to take home (after Poppa ate all the Snickers). The kids did not realize there was anything in the eggs.The day after the Easter egg hunt with Grammie and Poppa, we hosted a hunt in our backyard for our small group. Everyone brought some unfilled eggs and we "hid" them in the grass.
Caroline knew what to do...mostly. She quickly filled her bucket with eggs. After the bucket was full, she dumped them eggs on to the ground. She repeated this multiple times.
Caden grabbed a couple eggs but then decided he wanted to go swing. Caden enjoyed hunting eggs more when our family just hid them inside. He actually showed Caroline how to carry a bucket and collect eggs. Caden also liked hiding the eggs for he and Caroline to find. But when outside, Caden had better things to do.
Caden enjoyed exploring our water fall. This is the first time he had seen it running while being free to go wherever he wanted.
If Caden is doing something, Caroline is soon to follow.
Both of them liked touching the water.
Like I said before, Caroline prefers hunting rocks instead of eggs. She found this nice specimen in our water feature.
Amy and the twins.
We went to Dallas for Easter. While in Dallas, we had an Easter egg hunt with the family we often celebrate Thanksgiving and Easter with. This is my favorite picture from the day since it actually has both kids in it.
Caden enjoyed hunting the eggs. He even found a few that Stephanie thought would be too tough to find. For example, one egg was hidden on top of the grill handle.
Caden enjoys hiding eggs even more than he enjoys finding them. This picture may look like he just found an egg, but in reality, he was re-hiding the dozen or so eggs he had previously found.
Caroline seemed to really get it at this hunt. It did not take her long to fill her basket.
She found all the eggs you see here and put them in her basket without any help! Her basket was so full, eggs started spilling out. Caroline grabbed a second basket so she could try to fill it up as well.
After the hunt, Mary pulled Sammy (Mary's grandson) and the twins around in a wagon. I think Sammy go the best seat for this wagon ride. He sure looks comfortable!
Here is a picture of Grandma saying bye to Caden and Caroline.
We had a lot of fun hunting Easter eggs! I was surprised at just how good the twins were at doing so. I'm looking forward to hunting eggs next year. I'm sure by then, the twins will know that eggs contain goodies which will motivate their search.
