Holidays were quite possibly the most exciting part of my life when I was young. I’d count down the days to Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and my birthday with major anticipation. I could hardly sleep the night before the big day.
As I got older, the butterflies that used to be present around holidays began to disappear. However, this year, they’re back with a vengeance. What brought back the excitement? I have a baby!
Even though she’s really too young to understand or appreciate what is going on, we’re starting to include our daughter in holiday events.
We didn’t really intend on doing much for her for Easter, until we stopped at Target one day to pick up a 3-ring binder for one of my husband’s homework assignments. We should have known better than to walk by the Easter aisle. Without warning, we were sucked in by a force neither of us could resist: the force known as “Baby’s First.”
You all know what I’m talking about. “Baby’s First” makes you do things your usually-rational brain would never allow you to do under normal circumstances. It’s what makes you go all-out for your baby’s first birthday, when, in all honesty, all of the commotion is probably overwhelming for your little one. It’s what leads you to max out your credit cards buying way too many presents for your baby’s first Christmas. And, it’s what drew us to the aisle filled with pink bunnies, yellow ducks, and candy eggs.
To be fair, not everything in the Easter aisle was an impulse purchase for us. We’d been talking about getting her an Easter basket for a couple of weeks . It seemed logical, because our baby will use it every year. We found one we liked, and took it off the shelf.
An Easter basket needs Easter grass, though, right? We grabbed a pack of that.
Our baby isn’t old enough to eat candy this year, so we decided it would only be fair to pick out a toy for her to have. We decided on a Little People Easter set.
Even though she can’t eat hard-boiled eggs or really participate in egg dyeing, we still thought it would be a fun experience for our daughter to look back on in pictures. Add the egg-dyeing kit to the cart.
By the time we reached the checkout, we had an Easter basket, Easter grass, the Little People set, an egg-dyeing kit, and an Easter outfit for our baby. And to think, all we were going to buy was a 3-ring binder.
I’m curious what other parents do for their baby’s first Easter. I’m sure some do nothing, since the baby has no clue what’s going on anyways. I bet there are others who go all out. It seems like stuffed animals would be a popular choice for an Easter gift for a baby.
What did you do for your baby’s first Easter?