Eas! Eas!

So as I eluded in one of my posts from earlier this week, Grace was quite enamored with all things Easter this year. Although she doesn't exactly grasp the true miracle of Easter yet, she certainly appreciates the seasonal festivities. By the time Easter Sunday rolled around, Grace had participated in three Easter egg hunts and quickly learned that delightful treats come in those little plastic eggs. For about a week, we let Gracie have one of her eggs each night after dinner, but we had to eventually cut her off for fear of developing a bad habit. Here we are more than a month later, and there STILL isn't a day that goes by without Gracie asking us for "Eas! Eas!"

A few days before Easter, Gracie received a package in the mail from Grandma Elaine and Grandpa Allen. Here she is tearing into her presents.

She got a gigantic blue bunny, a Cabbage Patch doll, and a set of puzzles with coordinating books. Although Grace loves to play with puzzles, her favorite part is the deconstruction phase after we've put the whole thing together. She cracks us up!

The day before Easter, Chad took Gracie to a children's health and wellness fair at a local hospital. There were workshops on bicycle safety and proper carseat installation, plus GG got to walk around and sit in a real school bus (hmmm, maybe that's where her fascination with buses began...). But the true highlight of the event was the Easter egg hunt. Thankfully, there were no 'real' Easter bunnies this time. (Grace freaked when we tried to get her picture taken with the Easter Bunny a few weeks earlier.)

The following day, we went to my mom's to celebrate Easter with my side of the family. It was a very rainy day, so once again we opted for an indoor Easter egg hunt. Brenden, er, I mean the Easter Bunny, hid all the eggs downstairs; then Rubie and GG went nuts finding them all.

Because my Grandma Z could not be at Gracie's birthday party later in the month, she decided to give G her present a little early. She gave her a classic red Radio Flyer tricycle with streamers coming out of the handlebars and a little storage compartment in the back. Here are some pics of the girls riding it in the garage:

And here are some other pics we took throughout the day:

If you can believe it, I think I'm finally all caught up. If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out the photos in the previous four posts. I haven't mentioned it for awhile now, but we LOVE it when people leave comments for Gracie on this site. In my former life, otherwise known as PGG (pre-Gracie Girl), I used to spend a good amount of time scrapbooking. Because I don't exactly have time for that these days, this blog is like a virtual scrapbook. Someday, Gracie will be able to look back through all the posts, photos, and comments and see for herself how much she was loved from the very beginning.