Easter Egg Hunt

My friend and neighbor, Carla, arranged an egg hunt for our kids and the 3 young children of our other neighbor, Nele. Carla planned things and picked up lots of chocolate eggs (the size of real eggs) and she had some painted decorative eggs, too. I went over with Andrew and Cameron to find hiding spots for them Sunday morning. 

Then we all went over to Nele's house to tell her kids Jordan had heard something and he thought it was the paashaas (easter bunny). Nele's son, Tristan, thought he had heard something and his sister, Aglae, thought she heard "sniff sniff" (bunny sounds). So we all went in the empty yard between their houses and the kids started finding eggs. 

Nele's youngest, Guitan, is not quite 2 and he found a chocolate egg next to the fence of the chicken yard. He looked at the egg and looked at his mom and said "kippen" (chicken). He realized eggs come from chickens. (Smart guy.) He wanted to put the egg through the fence to give it back to the chicken! So Nele unwrapped the egg so he'd see it was chocolate and gave it back to him. We laughed about him wanting to give it to the chicken. Then Nele realized it wasn't in his hand and thought he must have eaten it very quickly - but no! He had put the chocolate egg through the fence and it was on the grass in the chicken yard! The chicken didn't seem to appreciate his gesture and wasn't interested in the egg. 

The other kids had fun "hunting" and in little time found all the eggs (with a little hinting from my guys). The yard has trees and garden things and eggs were in all the branches and bushes, nooks and crannies. 

Nele's daughter had a knit cap she was collecting the eggs in and the rest of the eggs were collected in a big bag. When the kids had found all the eggs, they put them all on a table and took turns choosing some to keep. It was very sweet. 

While the older kids did this, Guitan was interested in the fish swimming in the little pool in Carla's yard. He and Jan, Carla's husband, had a lovely discussion about the fishes. 

It was fun to see the smiles on the little ones!