Beautiful Easter Sunday

We are not church-going folks, not even for holidays, and as a vegetarian, I don't even get excited about the Easter ham, so Easter for me is more a signal of spring. A dose of sun and warm weather is what we finally got after a dismal week of rain and cold temperatures.

The grass even dried out enough for Oliver's first Easter egg hunt. We went over to the in-law's for breakfast and afterward Oliver "hunted" for the plastic eggs my mother-in-law had stocked with Oliver's favorites - Cheerios, Goldfish and cars. The hunt consisted of Oliver's dad and Uncle Andy leading him toward each egg,(Look over there, is that an egg? Let's go see this egg over here...) with Grandpa and Mom following his every move with cameras, but even without the coaching, he would have probably gotten the idea. The experience was a big step up developmentally from Halloween when he was so bewildered, (being stuffed in a costume probably didn't help) but today he understood that the eggs went in his Easter basket and then after Dad helped him open the eggs, plopped down on the grass and contently munched on his treats. I wished at that point the eggs were filled with chocolate for Oliver to "share" with Mom, but as we packed up to head home for Oliver's overdue nap, his grandpa slipped a bagful of jelly beans and chocolate bunnies into my purse.