Easter Week: Day 1

While Christmas is, without a doubt, my favorite holiday and time of the year, Easter is definitely the most important holiday we celebrate. I love that Easter falls around the same time as spring begins to bloom because of what both represent. Easter is what our faith and our belief is built on. Without Easter, and the resurrection of Christ, we would not have the hope and promise of eternity. I claim to understand the power of this holiday, but in reality, my human brain cannot comprehend the power of it all. I cannot understand how a man would send His only son to die for each of us. And not just any death, but a horrible, violent death. Since becoming a mother, this has only become more difficult for me to imagine. How much must God love of us all, to make such a sacrifice? It is such an overwhelmingly powerful thought.

I know this is all still far from your realm of understanding. So, we are celebrating the holiday all week in toddler terms because I know every small thing we do is shaping your foundation...even if that means we hide Easter eggs and do Easter crafts. We pray it is these small moments that begin to build your roots and your foundation in your love for Christ.

You both have such a passion for letters right now and I'm absolutely blown away by how many letters you each know already. I hadn't planned on really focusing on learning our letters until you were about 3 years old. However, I wanted to begin exposing you to letters early on - and with that exposure we found, you love your letters! So, who am I to stand in the way of something you've shown such an interest in... especially something as great as letters! Driving in the car has become very entertaining as we hear shouts from the backseat, "A! Two As! R! W! E," and the list goes on.

So, sticking with something that I know you're both passionate about, for the past week, we have been "dotting" letters. Using your dot markers, you hunt for the letters in the Easter egg. I didn't know if you'd be ready for this, but you did both of these by yourselves and love shouting the letter as you "dot" each one. I'd say you got it down!

Today, we also painted a paper "E-e egg (Easter egg)." 

Once daddy got home, we showed off how well we've mastered our colors by going on an Easter egg hunt. Wiley, you were hunting blue and yellow eggs; Ryan had orange and green. This was a HUGE hit!! You were squealing with joy just waiting while we hid the Easter eggs. Daddy and I were both impressed that you seemed to know just what to do without much instruction (this was your first time every hunting Easter eggs). You both kept saying, "hide and seek, Easter eggs!" Being that hide-and-seek is one of your favorite games, it makes sense that you'd be so great at spotting the Easter eggs. My favorite is when you'd find your brother's color - instead of sneaking it into your own basket, you would run it to him, making sure neither of you missed any eggs.

 

 

 

 

 

What a fun start to our Easter celebration!