Playing Easter Bunny

[TN_Vixen]

One of the great things about having kids is playing Santa, Easter Bunny & Toothfairy. My son still (at least pretends) to believe in them all still. Today I went shopping for the basket goodies, so of course my house is now full of chocolate.

I've always included toys in the Easter Basket, and this year is no exception.

Digimon
pokemon cards
shrinky dink- cartoons! (I mostly bought those for me)
Splat!
And a book of Animal Jokes for Kids - I know I'm going to be sorry about that choice. From now till summer I'm gonna hear jokes like:


Q:Why do moose wear sneakerswhile jumping tree to tree?
A: So they don't get splinters

Q:What did the moose say when he saw the frenchman Charles de Gaulle?
A: Nothing.... he couldn't speak French.

(groan)

Still, it's sorta like Christmas. I wait until the night before and then assemble everything in his basket, wrap it in cellophane and put it in front of the door for him to discover in the morning. I'm smiling just thinking about him waking up and cramming chocolate in his mouth as he yells... "Mom! Mom! Look at THIS!"

 

[LukkyKnight]

Why did the moose wear two red sneakers and two green ones?
















To be harder to spot hiding in the apple tree.

 

[unclej]

unfortunately my baby is now 23 so those days don't have quite the same magic as they once did....i envy you a little though i do have some young nieces and nephews that i can enjoy....

 

[freakygirl]

Every year for Easter I make baskets up for my kids.

I've always put something a little extra special in them.. stuffed animals.. games.. simple but fun things. They also get a new toothbrush in their basket. I remember when it's time to replace toothbrushes by doing it on Easter.

My youngest daughter has a huge (16 inches wide) basket. I bought for her first Easter and use it every year. It usually sits on her dresser with blue, yellow and pink paper grass. It has bunny that her grandma made her for her first Easter in it. Last year.. Easter morning.. I awoke to a horrible screaming noise coming from my daughters room. I ran into to see what the problem was and she said "someone.. sob...stole.. sob.. my.. sob.. Easter.. sob.. basket!!!!!!" I had to hide the grin and the chuckles.. I told her I was sure it was just the Easter bunny who took it, maybe it was downstairs. She was still crying and ran down to find her basket safe and sound with lots of new goodies in it. She dumped everything out of it.. hugged it.. put the grass back into it and safely delivered it back to it's "home". Then went back downstairs and looked through her loot.

I think it had to be the most memorable Easter so far.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I've always included toys in the Easter Basket, and this year is no exception.

For christ sake don't tell my kids about having other things in their easter baskets besides chocolate....... I just got over Christmas.....

Easter Friday we start making the baskets ready for Sunday morning chocolate. Always throw in a Easter egg treasure hunt during the Monday. I might even throw in some egg painting on the Saturday.

 

[TN_Vixen]

freakygirl.. that was a great story!

God, I remember my Mom fixing our Easter baskets and how we'd have half the chocolate eaten before Church. We'd have to go to the sunrise breakfast feeling queasy... inevitably there would be chocolate smears on our Easter dresses.

And, then there were the pictures - mostly taken outside with all 4 kids dressed in their Easter best standing or kneeling in front of their baskets. My dad took thousands of pictures of us growing up, and the Christmas photos & Easter photos I remember best.

One thing I didn't put in my son's basket this year is jellybeans. He doesn't like them. What's a basket without jellybeans? And, has anyone tried the Starburst jellybeans? The orange ones are my favorite! yummmm.

 

[InnocentAngel81]

aww i'm 20 and i never really got anything for easter, i know my man who is 23 still gets two huge easter baskets and has to search around the house for one

 

[TN_Vixen]

Re:

aww i'm 20 and i never really got anything for easter, i know my man who is 23 still gets two huge easter baskets and has to search around the house for one

that's tragic! I couldn't imagine not ever getting an Easter basket.

My Mom fixed an Easter basket for my brother until he was 25. But, he's a spoiled rotten brat. heh.. just kidding.

 

[freakygirl]

My ex husband makes our three older kids search for their Easter basket goodies.

The baskets are put out.. and they are given hints.. to find where the goodies are hidden. (Each childs is a different hint, and the stuff is hidden in different spots for each child)

He does the same thing with their stockings at Christmas time, only they aren't given hints.. they just have to find them.

 

[xMorganx]

well i am a single 22 year old so i just buy lots of candy for me and eat it on the 3 hour drive to my mother's the friday before easter.
Our family traditions include getting up early and going to Early mass on easter (we are true catholics only going on easter and christmas) and then going home so my parents can give all us kids our easter presents. then we all eat a pretty nice brunch and most of my cousins and myself go play some football down by the beach until supper time when my dad has the "official" end of lent party where we grill tons of cheeseburgers and steaks.
Finally i drive home on monday morning stuffed with food when i see a lonely hershey's kiss on the passenger side floor of my car!