Easter Grammy and The Easter Bunny

My parents came to visit Monday. Before they left on Wednesday, my mama (Grammy) dressed up like The Easter Bunny for Stella and they had an Easter egg hunt in the front yard.  I told mama it would be good practice because she had three other hunts to attend.

She caught onto finding them, picking them up and placing them in the basket quickly.

 My parents brought up the Cozy Coupe for her. It's another fantastic hand-me-down which we are pleased to have. She instantly loved it. Donald has her opening and closing the door and it has cup holders in the back. Brilliant!

Move over Daddy. This is my parking spot now!

The all too famous plastic play thing hair static!

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This was Egg Hunt #2. At a ladies house from Mom's club.  Donald says she looks like a Grandma here. I disagree. I think she looks precious.  We brought her Donald Duck who is dressed up like a bunny and holds a blue egg. 

He sings and waddles and was a huge hit at the party.

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On Saturday, we went down to Brooks to have a family Easter gathering.  I brought green bean bundles ( I had a major lapse in judgement and baked them on a non lined pan. Ugh, horrible idea. Baked on bacon grease mixed with brown sugar is not good) and fruit salad with flecks of mint sprinkled in.  Donald popped a huge bowl of Old Bay popcorn for everyone to munch on.  
I tried to take a cute picture of her before leaving to send to Uncle Mikey and Aunt Jessica and this is how she cooperated.

Finally, I was able to get these. She insisted on having bunny cover her face though. Whatever, she's still grinning like crazy behind her.

The rain stopped briefly for the little ones to do an egg hunt.  Stella's cousin, Kallie ran around in her pj's searching for eggs and only picking up ones that were pink or pinkish-purple.  

 This beautiful and adorable dress was given to Stella by her Uncle Mikey and Aunt Jessica. I'm so glad it fit and she was able to wear it for Easter. It was so muddy and she fell down (since she's still a novice at walking), but the stains came right out.

Yeah, this is a red Christmas ornament, but she didn't know any different.  I don't even know how it ended up with the eggs, but she was so excited to find it.

I sat Stella down with her Great-Grandpa and she didn't move for 30-45 minutes. I couldn't have been happier and I don't think Grandpa could have been either.  Her sitting still for more than a minute is unheard of, so this act right here was a miracle.  An Easter miracle. They watched the Braves game and she sucked her thumb. They shared a few laughs.  

Such a perfect moment .

Stella basically starting walking Saturday. I mean, she took her first 3 steps alone Monday night. A few more Tuesday and the rest of the week, but when we got down to Jamie and Carla's, she just felt so confident. She had her older cousins and Donald got her walking about 8 feet or so on his phone. From then on, she'd push herself up, walk a little, fall down and start back over again.  She still crawls but seems to be walking about half of the time.

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For Easter morning, I combined three things you must have for Easter and made it one dish: eggs + asparagus + ham = Fritatta. I topped my portion with crumbled goat cheese because I'm obsessed with it. I warmed up a package of the Sister Schubert's Cinnamon Yeast Rolls (so good!) and we had the left over fruit salad.  Donald commented that we should have mimosas. We didn't have champagne or prosecco or OJ now that I think of it, but he made a drink with mango juice, peach schnapps, a little vodka, club soda and muddled mint. We had brunch on the porch since it was so wonderful out.

I really didn't get Stella much for Easter. I mean, she's 10 months and already has so much stuff.  I did search high and low for the perfect Easter basket. I wanted something that she could grow with and I just love this basket. Thank you, Target!  Basically, I took all applicable Easter stuff that she had and placed it for her to see. Really the only new stuff in the pictures is the rainbow unicorn light projector, white Easter bunny felt bag, and a few things in the basket.

Grammy got Stella the unicorn, the felt bag, a whoopee cushion (which kinda freaked her out), the butterfly bowl, the solar flower (it sits in her west facing nursery window), edible Easter grass and flower lollipops.  I found the Easter Egg book either at Goodwill or the used book store we shop at and I got the plastic eggs at The Dollar Tree. The two bunny shaped suckers were made by a friend in garden club. Obviously, the grass and suckers will be enjoyed by Daddy.  The eggs were the biggest hit of all. If she ever seems bored, I'm sure I could just drag them out and dump them all over the floor and she'd be amused for hours.

Later in the afternoon, I did a little Easter photoshoot.

My God, she looks so grown here.

 On the left, she's holding a perfect bunch of 4 leaf clovers. The right is a clover flower which she picked herself.

Stella hanging out with her bunny friends.  

I love how joyful she looks.  

I got the craving for BBQ chicken the other day, but not BBQ'd wings or even a whole chicken like Donald does on a beer can (which is spectacular), but just good ole legs and thighs.  We had that with cabbage and grilled red potatoes.  I scarfed down everything.  Again, we had dinner outside and afterwards we did egg hunt #4.  Growing up, we always had an egg hunt on Easter morning. The hard boiled eggs were hidden inside and the plastic eggs were hidden outside.  We only did half of this hunt because Stella got pretty sleepy and no longer seemed interested. This is her staring off into space here.  It ended shortly thereafter.