The Baima Family Blog: Easter in Edwardsville

We spent Easter Sunday with all of Joe's family (this is not a small group!) in Edwardsville. We arrived early and discovered that the Easter bunny had also left baskets at grammy and grandpa Brett's house!

Grandpa Brett showing Ethan the chicken that lays jelly beans.

Of course the Moon Sand had to travel with us as well. She was way too excited about finding that in her basket to have to wait a day to play with it. Notice here how the sand is a lovely shade of purple or yellow.

Ethan and grandpa Brett on a jelly bean hunt. Before the kids' arrival, Brett had hidden an entire bag of jelly beans around their house. We were at the house for about 10 hours, and we were still finding them at the end of the day! It became a source for a constant sugar high for the kids as every time you turned around you would find another jelly bean just waiting to be eaten.

Uncle Brennan showing the kids how his bearded dragon ("Mohinder") loves to eat crickets.

Olivia with Uncle Brennan.

Poor aunt Kelli spent the majority of her time with the kids crawling all over her. Here is Olivia with her 2nd cousins Mattie, Madison, and Allie.

I have no idea how this started, but once Ethan heard the laughter in response to wearing his bucket like a hat, he continued to do this for a long time.

Kate, Ethan, and Uncle Brennan. Ethan was clingy on Easter (too many strange faces) so this was the only way we could get his picture with Brennan.

Olivia on her second Easter egg hunt of the season.

Once again, Ethan had to inspect each egg before placing it into his bucket. Next year he'll learn that doing this means that you do not find as many eggs when competing with the other kids.