Easter - Part 1

On Saturday, Sam and I did a special "project" together. She LOVES to do projects, and the mere mention of that word gets her so excited. Sometimes, the "projects" involve crafts (coloring, cutting, using glue, etc.) and sometimes the "projects" involve cooking. Our "project" for Saturday was to make "birds' nests." We talked about how the noodles represent sticks and the butterscotch/peanut butter represents the mud that is used to hold all of the sticks together. (That reminds me: When I got the peanut butter out of the cupboard, I asked her what it was and she told me, "mud." I realized that that is because Daddy told her that it is mud whenever she has "ants on a log.")

Her favorite part was putting all of the "eggs" in the nests. She chose to put two eggs in every nest (and she was very careful to make sure that each nest had exactly that amount).

After dinner on Saturday, we colored eggs. We told Sam that we were going to do this and she ran to get her crayons! We had to explain that we were going to do something a little more special ...

Sophia was even excited:

Samantha did a pretty good job with the egg coloring. We had to monitor her pretty closely so that she didn't get too much dye all over the place and we needed to make sure that she didn't crack any of the eggs. Overall, I would say that it was a major success.

The girls were pretty happy with the finished products:

After Sam took her bath, we let her come back downstairs to put the eggs in a basket for the Easter Bunny:

And then she took them to the table where her Easter basket (and Sophia's Easter basket) were ready and filled with grass for the Easter Bunny to fill. Sam even put out a carrot for him ...

And off to bed she went ...