Easter Egg Hunt

Sunday afternoon, after we ate lunch, my cousins and I had a big Easter Egg Hunt in Aunt Jean's backyard. I found 18 eggs!

Daddy helped me get some that the older boys put up really high!

I even found one in a tree!

After I was done finding all the eggs, I got to take the coins out of them.

Paque-ing Eggs

"Paque" is the French word for Easter. During Eastertime in South Louisiana, it is a tradition to die dozens of eggs and get together with friends and family over for some "egg-paque-ing" (pronounced "pock", like rock). It's a Cajun tradition! Mommy grew up doing this with her family. Her Paw-Paw was the most difficult person to pacque eggs with - he knew all the tricks!

The tradition begins with boiling and dyeing the eggs with family. For pictures of that process, see the previous post. That was fun!

Easter morning, after church and my baskets, we headed to Lafayette to Aunt Jean's and Uncle John's house (Paw-Paw's sister). All my cousins were there, each family with their own basket of eggs to paque! Soon the egg-paque-ing began.

Here's how Egg Paque-in works:
I get my egg....you get yours. You're on top, I'm on bottom and we knock them together, "rock, paper, scissors" style. The objective is to crack the other person's egg. Each match crowns a champion who will then go on to pokking another relative's egg, until a final winner is selected.
All "big ends" will be paque-ed against "big ends". Chicken eggs can only paque chicken eggs.

So I paque-ed with Paw-Paw first. I chose a blue egg!



My egg cracked, but I didn't care. I just reached in the basket and found another one - this time, green! Now it's Daddy's turn to paque with me!


That egg broke too. But it didn't stop me! I was having fun... Next, a yellow egg against Mommy's pink one!

It broke too. Now... a blue egg again. Grannie's turn!

This was lots of fun! Then I got to eat a boiled egg - the best part of the whole experience!

Easter Morning

Easter morning, we got up like a regular Sunday and went to Mass at St. Jude. Grannie and Paw-Paw came with us. I got to wear my handsome yellow sweater and my blue and white searsucker pants. I was so good-looking! When we came home, I discovered a bunch of baskets in the living room. I had one from the Easter Bunny and one from Grannie and Paw-Paw. And Grannie and Paw Paw even had one for the baby!

This basket is mine from the Easter Bunny. My favorites from the basket were my new fork and knife set, new airplane sippy cups, and an airplane book!

This is the basket Grannie and Paw-Paw brought for the baby. It has a stuffed duck and lots of little white and yellow duck-themed clothes, blankets, towels, socks, and wash clothes.


And this is my basket from Grannie and Paw-Paw.

My favorites were a magnetic bunny toy and eggs filled with Play-Doh.


I really enjoyed reading my airplane book all day Sunday!

Dying Easter Eggs

While we were at the birthday party, Grannie and Paw-Paw were at our house. They boiled 3 dozen eggs. When we got home, I couldn't help but want to touch them all on the counter. I got my stool, pulled it up close, climbed up, and peaked under the towel covering the eggs. Every time Mommy asked if I was touching the eggs, I'd quickly shake my head "no"! Only a few of the eggs were broken. ;)

After dinner Mommy covered our dining room table with a bunch of towels. Grannie poured some nasty-smelling vinegar into a bunch of colored cups and put some fizzy tablets in them all. We all sat down around the table with the colored bowls, boiled eggs, and some spoons. Grannie gave me the blue and green cups. She showed me how to lower the egg into the cup with the spoon. It did it very carefully.

But I very quickly discovered that my hands really helped the effectiveness and efficiency of the spoon!

The result: A beautiful green egg! (And lovely green fingers, too!)

Happy 1st Birthday Lila!

Saturday morning we went to a birthday party for our friend Lila's 1st birthday. We had a wonderful time. We got to do an Easter egg hunt at the party!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILA!

Easter at Gram's

Friday evening we went to Gram's house for dinner to celebrate Easter with them. The weather was gorgeous, so we enjoyed some time outside before dinner.