I can remember waking up on Easter morning and getting the traditional basket filled with jelly beans, malted eggs, and a chocolate bunny. David and I were talking and realized we are interesting basket givers for Pnut. My mom has been awesome at giving her grandkids kid-friendly baskets with eggs filled with goldfish, peanuts, m&m's, etc. My MIL gives her candy, maybe a movie, and a few times has given her an outfit.
When my MIL gave Pnut an outfit for the first time I realized that there is a looooonnngg space of time from Christmas to Pnut's birthday and Easter is a great time to fill in a gap. So, we try and give her little toys, clothes, or things that she needs at Easter too in lieu of candy. This year her basket included: a chocolate bunny (we caved for the first time on this, but it is small), fruit roll-ups, a go-fish card game, a new 100 piece puzzle, flower seeds to plant (safe in the place we all live *grin*) an LED glow stick for the desert, and some pencils. According to Pnut this morning the Easter bunny is AWESOME. This was before she saw the note at the bottom of her bucket to go look in the garage. We used some of her leftover birthday money and got her a bigger bike. It still has training wheels, but she is super close to having the confidence to take them off. She states she wants a skateboard, but we have convinced her to learn to master two wheeled bikes first.
Happy Easter for the last time from our family of three!
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