What are you doing for Easter with your toddlers? Or, what did you do for Easter when you had toddlers? Or, what would you suggest someone with a toddler do? And of course I’m referring the whole Easter Bunny gift giving aspect, not the religious/non-religious part. I don’t get into that kind of talk over here in Tornado Alley.
I think Eirinn would really enjoy an Easter egg hunt. She lawbs playing hide and seek, which is like an Easter egg hunt only hunting for humans. That sounded more Wes Craven than I wanted it to, but you know what I meant. And, if she ran things around here (which she almost does), she would be allowed to consume mass quantities of chocolate bunnies, run laps around the house while screaming like a lunatic (preferably clothes-free), slam head first into a sugar low, morphing her into a crazed, tantrum-throwing Mega Beast.
Buuuuut…that does NOT sound like how I would like our Easter Sunday to go. I’m picturing her dressed in her finest Sunday dress (note to self: buy Eirinn a Sunday dress), delicately tiptoeing around the garden (note to self: melt snow and plant a garden), finding sweet little decorated Easter Eggs that lead her to a chocolate covered salad (note to self: wake up and meet your daughter for the very first time). Apparently my minds eye is in desperate need of a reality check.
What I think will happen, and what I’ve purchased thus far, is I will fill those little plastic eggs from the Dollarama with M&M’s, Skittles, and Gummy Bears, in reasonable toddler-sized portions (about 10 candies in each). This way she can get what she wants (chocolate, preservatives, chemicals…sugar high!) and I can portion control her by telling her she can eat One Whole Egg at a time!!! And promptly hide the rest.
I don’t think I would be neglecting her or depriving her of her Earthly Toddler Rights if I don’t buy her anything else (stuffed animals that would be ignored, giant chocolate bunnies that would transform her into a sweet [tasting] monster, clothes that she would unabashedly tell me she “no yikes”), especially since her birthday will have only been two weeks earlier and lasted a whole three (3!) weekends long. Because that’s a lot of presents.
So, tell me. What do your Easter festivities consist of?
