Neighborhood Easter egg hunt

We did an Easter egg hunt today with some of our neighbors, and had a great time! Our neighborhood didn't have anything planned for the kids, and since we don't have a car to take us anywhere else, we had to plan our own egg hunt! So, I used emails, facebook, and door-to-door invitations to put together an egg hunt in our play area. Another dad and I hid the 180 plastic eggs around the yard, and then 12 kids had a blast finding them all. The 3 toddlers searched in the sandbox, and everyone else had a huge area to hunt through. The older kids found their 15 eggs quickly, so they helped the preschoolers find the rest of the scattered eggs. It was way more fun than having our own egg hunt in our house.


Here's a bonus picture of Rowan, sleeping with one of his best buddies, a sock monkey he received from Aunt Nikki for Christmas. He calls it "Mono" which means monkey in Spanish. He always takes at least two animals with him to bed, and they rotate depending on who he wants, but Mono is always one of them. One of his "friends" closes the door and turns off the light at bedtime. Rowan and Ellie are different in so many ways, but it's neat to see Rowan going through the same stage of loving stuffed animals.