Easter

My moms' group had an Easter Egg hunt a few days before Easter.  Owen actually did really well, understood what he was supposed to do, and had just collected Egg #10 before he saw another kid open one of his eggs.  Cha-ching!  He stopped right where he was and proceeded to open all of his eggs to check out what he had picked up.  Candy!!!

My friend's backyard opens right onto a horse pasture.  There was curiosity on both sides of the fence!  Owen was pretty fearless.

Owen and his buddy Carson surveying for any last eggs.

Then he had his Easter morning basket.  He immediately knew to go for the eggs and open them.  We didn't give him very many, and we are milking them for all they're worth!  Candy is very persuasive.  :)  [FYI, the green socks were his addition.  He's becoming very particular about certain items of clothing, if given a choice.]

He also got some sidewalk chalk and Thomas the Train jigsaw puzzles, which he seemed to enjoy.

And because he's obsessed with other kid's bikes, trikes, power wheels, scooters, and skateboards, we got him a little bike for the summer season.  You may notice it has no pedals.  It's called a balance bike, and the theory is that if the kid gets enough momentum going, he can just pick up his feet and learn to balance.  This is supposed to facilitate them going straight to a real bike w/o the challenges of weaning off training wheels.  We'll see how it goes.  It was a little sad to see him waddle down the sidewalk straddling this bike, but hopefully he'll pick it up quickly.

The weather was perfect, so we did an Easter Egg hunt in the yard.  We had to reassure him that these eggs were empty, since his 'leave-no-egg-unopened' approach was really slowing down the hunt.  He requested that we hide them at least two more times, so I think he had fun finding them.

And who can forget the traditional Easter snowball fight?  There was a bit leftover from a couple of light snowfalls that week, and some neighborhood kids were having a blast pelting each other with the remnants.  Of course, Owen had to go right up to the action and stare at the kids!