Camilla and Madeline were up with the sun searching for their Easter baskets. Not wanting to keep all the happiness to themselves, they woke Eliza and Natalia as well. They were wise enough not to wake Anna.
Here is Camilla sporting her lovely new Easter shirt.

They each got a packet of seeds in an egg--Natalia was pretty thrilled about her "Mammoth Sunflowers!"

Madeline made us a healthy fruit salad to enjoy with our breakfast. She was much more ambitious than I was, since I was serving lovely cold cereal for the fancy Easter brunch!

Eliza, her new shirt, her favorite striped pants, and her zinnias.

Apparently I failed to take a picture of Anna in her new Easter outfit. At least she is sitting next to it here.

Eliza like to dye and dye again with her eggs. You can see the one on her plate is a sort of pea-green currently.

Anna, however, liked to smash and smash again with her egg. There are a few egg shells scattered around her on the table, but that was just from the first smash!

I think all of Natalia's candy was gone within an hour or two. "Saving for later" is not a concept she understands yet.

She did make some lovely eggs, however. Very bright and pretty!

Madeline refused to let me taker her picture until she was finished dying her eggs. No "in the works" photos for her.

A beautiful forsythia bush hiding an egg--not for long--Camilla and her eagle eyes soon spotted it.

Pretend this picture is up with the other "egg dying" ones.

Natalia and that breath-taking bush again. She needed a little help to find the eggs.

Apparently her basket is still empty.

Once Anna understood the concept of "pick up the egg and put it in the basket," she was all over it! There was no candy in them, but she thought it was fun just the same!

Madeline was a master at both hiding and finding Easter eggs. She and Camilla had them hidden all over the garden until I ruled out the dirt areas and requested they keep them on the grass! They were clever, though, even rolling them in some ashes in the garden to camouflage them.