The Fanning Family: Easter Activities 2012

The Easter festivities kept the Fanning Family busy this year. Here are a few highlights from our weekend.

Ally (23 months) Kiley (4 years, 9 months)

I feel very lucky that I was able to join Kiley for her Easter Egg Hunt at school. If you look closely, her teacher, Ms. Sheila, made her shirt for her. The students were working on number recognition. She had to find all the eggs with the number 13 on them.

Easter Egg Hunt at Kiley's Pre-K

I was so excited to take the girls to see the Easter Bunny this year. (Mainly because I want to take the girls to Disney in 2013 and I had hoped this would be fun for Ally.) I had them all prepared and ready. Ally enjoyed looking at him, but that is about all she would do. I tried getting her closer, even with me....no luck. (Disney may have to wait!)

Girls getting ready to see the Easter Bunny

Only Kiley would sit by the Easter Bunny

We also visited Elmo that day.

The girls did a great job coloring eggs this year. Kiley is really enjoying doing fun activities like this. Allyson on the other hand, still makes BIG messes, it is hard for me to just let her do it by herself.

Coloring Eggs at home

Kiley and Ally preparing the egg dye

We were extra delighted that Grandpa Bill was able to join us for Easter . We had a fantastic time at Fort Yargo for the 1st Easter Egg Hunt on the bike trail. Kiley was super fast and picked up LOTS of eggs. I stayed with Ally and picked up a few here and there. When we finished the trail, Kiley was so kind to put more eggs in Allyson's basket. I am so proud of many of the choices she makes, and this one warmed my heart. I know the days of being nice to each other are limited, so I will cherish this one!

Next, the girls wanted to jump in the jumpy houses. Ally really wanted to, but was scared. After 10 or so minutes, I was able to get her to jump. She was cautious, but loved it. She was soon, going down the slide, jumping and loving it. Kiley wanted to help her little sis, so she grabbed and tugged her down the slide resulting in a busted lip for Ally. If that was not enough to make her change her mind about the cool jumpy house, somehow the "house" deflated with my girls in it. The kids were frightened, but luckily JC and I were right there to pull them out. This ended Ally's love for the jumpy house. We had now tried a few times to get her on one, and she cries in fear. She prefers to watch Kiley right now, and I can't say I blame her.