There will be more pics tomorrow, of course, of Erin and Orren hunting eggs (by the way, a big play structure in the backyard makes for a way more awesome egg hunt!) and playing with their new toys. (Hopefully we will be able to convince Orren to wear clothes for long enough to do this. He's become a major Mr. Nudist lately.)
But yes, this is what our $20-per-kid Easter looks like! We decided to go ahead and test out what we could do on a poor person's budget just in case we ended up really scraping by for a year or so while Thak gets himself established at BMW. By recent conversations with the people at BMW, that is not going to be the case (he's even being paid for his internship, which is unheard of. It's not a lot, but it's the principle of the thing.) but it was still worth figuring out how we'd do a holiday on a little. We pulled it off! I think they're going to like this stuff!
They each got the following in their basket:
A Zhu Zhu Pet
A train whistle
Bubbles
Two old fashioned candy sticks
A coconut patty
Three small chocolate bunnies
The only thing I completely undershot was the candy to fill eggs with, and thank goodness for a well stocked baking pantry, I had a bag of chocolate chips that filled in just perfectly! It was pretty great because Erin told me just yesterday that she doesn't like jelly beans, and that's what I had bought to fill the eggs with. At least she'll like half of them! Something tells me she won't have a massive problem with jelly beans come tomorrow either.
It's going to be a good easter for Erin and Orren! I'm looking at their baskets sitting on their little wooden bench, and realize that this is the last year that there will be only two of them there for them. Next year this time, we'll have a third basket up there for little Chaiyo or Sirikit. We have room for just one more!
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