Filling plastic easter eggs with candy. He would open them put the candy in, close them, open them again, take the candy out, close them, and start all over again!
Then he went exploring. He loved looking through the barb wire fence at the animals their neighbors had. A horse came right up to him, and John almost got to touch him, but the horse ran away before I could lift him up to pet it.
Then he went on an "Easter egg" hunt, except the eggs were real eggs that their chickens and their neighbor's chickens had laid all over the land. Here he is finding one under a 4-wheeler. If you look really closely just to the right of the front wheel there's a speck of white (that's the egg!)
When Ben woke up we ventured over to Tom's house (their neighbor) and saw his livestock. John was in love with the cows. That was one of his first words to say both the name of the animal and the sound it makes (First was actually doggie and bowwow!). He kept trying to feed them or get them to come near him, but they stayed their distance.
(he was also fascinated by their big pool of water and I believe a few random rocks made their way into it! Oops!)
Next we went to the bunnies. John thought they were ok, but Ben LOVED them. He giggled and giggled with delight. Tom was keeping this cage for Easter bunnies, but was raising the rest for food.
Nana picked up a 3 week old bunny. Unfortunately she probably picked it up a wee bit too early and it's mom may disown it. Oops.
The pigs caught both of my boys attention, John's only for a little bit, until he saw some flowers that he could go run in and blow the petals off of (dandelions!!!). Then he met some neighbor kids and "talked through the fence."
Ben would bounce up and down in excitement whenever a pig would walk near him. It was too cute!
We left shortly after seeing the animals, cuz we still needed to make it to Sam's and home so the kiddos could sleep. It was a great day though, and we will definitely have to do it again!
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