Some Bunny Loves Easter

Easter Day proved to be just as eventful and exciting as the Alameda Saturday Spring Scramble.  Virginia awoke to find that the Easter Bunny had been very generous to her this year.  She set off almost instantaneously through the family room finding the eggs he had hidden and dove into her Easter basket with gusto.

After a quick breakfast, Virginia donned her Easter best and we got in the car to go to church.  We went to St. Clement's Church in Berkeley (the church Thomas grew up attending) to meet GayGay and PopPop for the service.  Last year visit to St. Clement's had been a bit of a bust, with Virginia crying the whole hour she spent in the nursery.  For weeks after that event, she had repeated to us: "Mommy and Daddy at the church, I crying!"  So we were understandably apprehensive about dropping her off again.  

She's clearly grown up a lot in a year's time, because she handled the drop off like a pro!  We came back an hour later to find a happy kiddo showing off the Easter egg she had colored during class.  And she even took a potty break with the teacher while she was there.

After the church service, we headed out on the lawn for an Easter egg hunt.  Virginia found quite a few eggs, and quickly discovered she was a big fan of Reece's peanut butter cups.  We then headed over to a bakery across the street  Virginia chose a large sugar cookie with sprinkles all over it and proceeded to lick the sprinkles off and hand the cookie back to me.  Classic.

Reece's peanut butter cup in mouth:

Licking sprinkles off:

After church, we were off to GayGay and PopPop's house, where Virginia discovered that the Easter Bunny had dropped off another Easter basket.  Lucky girl!  We had a nice brunch and more candy and admired GayGay's tulip garden.

The Harveys then set out for the Claremont Country Club for pony rides, a petting zoo, and yet another egg hunt.  Talk about a full day!  Virginia had a blast with the animals, but her favorite activity was sitting in the dirt in her gorgeous hand smocked dress and scooping sand with a fellow toddler.

We finished the day with a nap and dinner at GayGay and PopPop's house.  We had all the Easter fixings and a visit from Uncle Biggie too.  I think this Easter is going to be hard to top!