Another of our favorite Easter traditions is taking part in the Pantego Easter Celebration. This year, it was a beautiful day, so we walked down to the park and got a great surprise! We actually met up with the Easter Bunny being driven to the park in a red convertible! The girls thought this was awesome, of course! So, we quickly followed him and got ready to hunt some more eggs!
Jillian's group got to go first. She was in a 0-4 group, so she had an easy time scooping up her maximum egg limit. She even had time to pick and choose colors!
The 5-6 year olds were next....obviously, this is the age when you need to start working on strategy. She came up with only 3, to which Jillian lectured her "But Meredith, you were supposed to get 8!" Luckily, the Easter Bunny had extras for any of the kiddos that didn't get enough.
So, we of course, had to visit him next! I am not sure when we visited the Easter Bunny last - but it seems like whenever it was, one or both of the girls hated it. This year, they were both really excited to go see him - especially after getting to wave to him on the road!
At the Easter Eggsperience earlier in the day, both girls really wanted their faces painted, but we were supposed to go to a Dance picnic that afternoon. I knew we would just have to wash it off, so I convinced them to move past the long line. The picnic got cancelled (even though it turned out to be a beautiful day, it stormed the night before and the site of the picnic was too muddy for us!), so when we saw a face painter at the park, I let the girls go for it. The face painter was awesome. But there was only one of her and like 100 kids wanting cute faces. So we waited and waited and waited. But they were more than happy to be patient. Jillian was insistent she get a cat. As she started painting, I got a little worried that she might be a little surprised to see that SHE was the cat!
I wanted to catch the reaction just in case it turned to tears or fear! She looks a little unsure, but then....
She thought it was awesome! She loved her kitty face! "Don't worry daddy, I'm just wetend (pretend)!"
Meredith requested a bunny in flowers - and luckily she seemed pleased with this and wasn't disappointed that she did not become a bunny herself!
On the walk home, Daddy and the girls did a little dancing!
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