Although this is not our first Easter with Little Bear, it's the first one that I've had to put a basket together for him (he was only 6 months old last year). I
may have gone just a little overboard, but here's what he's getting (NO junk candy and NO useless crap here!):
Because Little Bear and I fly relatively frequently and because he LOVES to pack things up, I used a
Melissa and Doug Trunki instead of a standard Easter Basket. He is obsessed with the pillow packs that come in Amazon's packages, so I used those as a base filler.
To make it pretty and Easter-y, I topped the pillow packs with pretty green Easter grass.
I did a little dry run tonight, and hid a few
eggs to get Little Bear ready for the big day. Before he would put
any eggs in his bucket, he wanted to open it and check the inside out - I have NO idea where he learned that Easter eggs were filled with goodies, but it made my job a whole lot more fun :)
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| Nevermind the beer in the background :) Momma needed a little Blue Moon action after today's tornado fiasco! |
I filled some bigger eggs with
Annie's fruit snack packs.
Ok, so, don't judge... I may have had a little too much fun with the non-food goodies that went into the basket. I think there is an element of mommy guilt that comes with keeping the "good stuff" away from Little Bear (i.e., foods/candies filled with unhealthy and even toxic additives, colors, artificial flavors, etc.). Even thought I know that I'm making the best possible choices for his health, I still don't want him to feel left out or isolated - especially during the holidays. Sooooo, I more than compensated :)
Here's a list of some of the fun fillers I used:
Sooo, now I have a huge basket to hide until Sunday! While at this age Easter is all about the treats and the gifts, I can't wait until Little Bear is old enough to really understand why we celebrate Easter - there is so much awesomeness for me to teach him!
Romans 6:8-11 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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