Easter

Easter was so fun this year! Twelve days leading up to Easter, I read a special Bible story about Jesus with an egg Gracie got to open for each story. Each egg had something in it. Like on the 11th day, we read the story of Jesus on the cross, and the egg had a nail and a Band-Aid in it. (Gotta break it down for the little ones. Jesus went through some pretty hardcore stuff.) On the 12th day (Easter), the egg was empty because the tomb was empty! She's been asking for her "Jesus story and egg" almost every day since then...I guess that's how good habits can be made. I wasn't really sure what kind of an impact it would have on her.

She loved dyeing eggs together, and hunting them at my folks' house before our big Easter dinner. Mimi and Papa gave Gracie her pretty Easter dress and sandals (Momma tried to do a cute 'do - Mimi said she looked like a little Dutch girl), Nana and Grampy gave her a bubble mower, and we gave her a little bubble gun. She loved it all.