Early Easter

What kid doesn't love opening presents? Probably not many, Kate tells us on a regular basis how much she loves opening presents. Well for St Patty's I got the idea from my sis to leave a trail of green paper around the house from the Leprechauns and then have something at the end as the pot o' gold. Kate LOVED this. There was a fun little game for her called Cookin' Cookies. It comes in a cute little lunch pail and is very simple and fun - I recommend it to anyone with kids around 4yrs. That was fun but she wanted more. So I thought I would tell her about Easter as the next holiday, we could get excited about the easter egg hunt etc etc. Well for the next day and a half she would tell us every few minutes (with her head tilted back in agony) that she absolutely could not wait for easter. Maybe I should have held out and made her wait but for my own sanity we bought easter eggs today. She dyed 4 of them which was fun but I think even more she liked smashing and peeling the shell off of them, much like she enjoys peeling dried glue off her palm. She sits there so quietly concentrating on peeling! And we hid plastic eggs around the house all day. It was a lot of fun and why not celebrate a holiday each day. Although I'm sure she thought it would involve presents, that at least is a good lesson to learn.