What is the Bunny with the Money bringing the kids

[dancemomof2]

Just curious, I try to make the baskets each year different but this year I did candy, sidewalk chalk, matchbox cars, ne pool floats a stuffed bunny of course, hair scrunchies, lip gloss, nail polish bubbles,balls,Itunes cards. Then I bought them a new pool for outside as a group gift.

Any other trinket suggestion for 14 & 11 year olds. The 2 year old is easy trucks cars bubbles and balls and a new outfit.
I swear This Bunny with the Money could use a cost of growing up raise.

[GriffsMommy]

I have to say that I don't even know what the kids got in the way of candy this year. My MIL bought baskets for them from this really good local candy company and I haven't even seen them yet. My mom got them a little bit of candy too so they're set in that department. Griffin (2 1/2) got a Diego Tricycle which I am sure he is going to love (mental note still need to take that out of the trunk and put it together) The older kids each got these weird pillows that they can plug their MP3 players or CD players into and listen to music through them.

[ihurttoo]

I put the same kind of stuff in Collin's basket that you described...small toys like cars, hand held games, little trinkets, new water wings, stickers, a stuffed rabbit and a chocolate one, and of course CANDY filled eggs! But, this year, I also put some tokens in there from the Bowling Alley for video games, and I put movie tickets in one egg. I also put change in some and dollar bills in a few. The Golden Egg has the tickets in it, as well as $5. (He already LOVES money!) He counts the money in his piggy bank daily and insists on going to the bank with me once a week to put part of his allowance in the bank! It is very cute!

[tigger_gal]

I bought Ash a pair pf pants that we use to call coolots.. she loves them and made her a basket of candy
for jake I bought him a fool ball hoddy and pants. he is getting a basket of candy..


Ash, Jake and I got Shirts from Leslie :kissing:

[ICNDonna]

Would you believe I bought 500 plastic eggs and put candy in them, plus five pounds of wrapped candy eggs, 120 small "trinket gifts," three stuffed bunnies, and one large easter basket? Our Lions Club will have an Easter Egg Hunt early this afternoon and that was my part. My daughter will be donning an easter bunny suit and will also carry around a fancy basket with candy --- and if any child doesn't find eggs, we will have some to give them. I'll try to post a pic of the BIG bunny handing out eggs --- by the way, she says I owe her BIG TIME!

Donna

[dancemomof2]

How neat Donna. That sounds great.

I just love the look on there faces when they wake up and see that the basket they sat out empty is FULL!!!!!!!!!!!

[L. Thomas]

When our kids were younger I used to make coupons from Santa, The Giant Pumpkin, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny for stuff they enjoyed that usually a had a "no" when they asked "Mom can I...."

1 clean room

Courtesy of the Easter Bunny

One trip to the play ground

Daddy super trip

Sleepover for 3 friends

Stay awake 3 hours past bedtime

Trip to the mall and lunch for 4

15 gallons of gas

manicure

[Berkshire Road]

Easter baskets, Christmas stockings; these are my husband's family traditions but of course we all know who ends up doing the shopping ... LOL

Let's see, I am looking through the bag where I keep all the stuff until the Big Day, so I'll try to list it as I go along. This is a good idea, anyway, so I can double check, make sure I didn't miss anything, make sure there's enough to fill her basket... all that.

So, we have here:

1 earrings/necklace set
1 pocket etch-a-sketch
2 silly putty eggs
Cocoa peeps (gag)
1 chocolate bunny (Neslte Crunch, her favorite)
1 Superman yo-yo ball
1 plastic egg with mini Reeses peanut butter cups
2 sheets of stickers (one classy; one Tinkerbell; Susannah has a thing for Tinkerbelle ever since she played Tink in a school play last year :) )
1 keychain (also Tink)
4 Lindor truffles in the shape of eggs
1 box for holding "whatever;" pink Superman logo (did I mention she is also a Supes fan?)
3 pink tennis balls (these are for throwing around with friends)
1 pad of post-it notes shaped like dogs
1 small chocolate lollipop shaped like an Easter egg
1 pink and white Beanie Baby kitten ("Pinkerton")

Candy has to be limited due to mild diabetes; even the small amount we give her, we limit how much she can have per day. I always feel bad about this and end up over-compensating with other things. Fortunately the Bunny's finances can cover it. :)

[lnseagraves]

All of your lists sound so wonderful. Youre going to have some happy kiddies waking you up on Sunday. Makes me wish my hubby and I would get started with having kids :) I'm only 24 yet though, so I'm going to wait a BIT more.:bunny:

[dancemomof2]

less then 12 hour until the sugasr rush begins. Make sure the coffee is ready to go mom's

[ihurttoo]

I have just performed my rabbitly duties. His Easter basket is filled and on the foot of my bed, (where he is asleep.) Other eggs and goodies are hidden EVERYWHERE! It is all I can do not to go in there and wake him up right now! :) But, I wont. But, it sure is hard! Sort of like on Christmas Eve after I have put out the presents, it's all I can do not to run in there and yell, "Santa came! He really came!" :) Anyone else getting the urge to go wake 'em up?

[GriffsMommy]

Oh yea Amy, I just went and got Griffin's Trike out of the car and put it together. I want to wake him up so bad. I think he may have a heart attack. We brought home a puppy today and then he gets a trike and candy tomorrow, what more could a 2 year old ask for! :smile tee

[dg2901]

I went out tonite to do the bunny shopping only to come home and find out my son, who is 16, is staying the night elsewhere..grrrrrrr!
All I can say is enjoy them while they're young!

Off to go wait for 'the bunny' all alone..:(
:hi:
D

[L. Thomas]

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58 (hubby never missed a day in 37 years)

2 on the move but they still get the bunny. (sometimes not on Easter day)
The bunny is alive and still doing well at our home
When you quit beileving he quits comming

[pingpong]

How many of you had to wait until you got home from church before you could touch a single thing in your basket?

[dancemomof2]

OMG Let the sugar rush begin!!!! I think they have tasted everything in the basket at least twice.

[ihurttoo]

In all fairness, I wanted to go wake Steve up too last night, (but for different reasons!) :devil: I just wanted to go shake him and wake him up just to be mean. He is such a spoil sport on holidays! It is like the man is missing the "fun gene"!

First, he was griping about having to go to church. (He hasnt been in years! But, I wanted him to go to at least see Collin hunt eggs there and so we could all be together.) I mean, I know that if you dont go the rest of the time, what good's it do to go Easter and Christmas? Especially, since he didnt want to be there! But, I didnt think it was too much to ask to go and be with us. *Sigh* He DID go, but was so antsy the whole time, and actually griped that it took to long to watch the kids hunt the eggs afterwards!

Then, in church, there was this 2 mo old baby right in front of us that watched us the whole time. I got so teary sitting there, I had to leave to get composed. Just sitting there thinking about how I wouldnt ever be having one again, or holding one in my arms really got to me. I tried to not look at her, but she just stared at me and cooed the whole time! I should have moved somewhere else, but it would have sounded too stupid to explain why if anyone asked. How can you say you had to move because a baby was looking at you sweetly and cooing at you all thru church!

Even seeing Collin looking so cute got to me! It teared me up just thinking about how he is growing up and I dont have many more years left where he will believe in the Easter bunny (or will want to look cute.) Collin couldnt wear his Easter outfit b/c it was too cold here. But, the Easter bunny brought him some white and seafoam green rabbit ears on a headband and he wore those with a pastel plaid shirt and his overalls. He was too cute for words! Maybe this year I will get a pick of us together for my avitar where he isnt scowling. (The one in my avitar now is from Easter a couple of years ago, and I had to get after him for picking up eggs and then stomping them if they didnt have chocolate in them. So, that is why he is looking mad and trying to get out of my arms! :)) Hopefully, we will have a decent pic this year!

I hope everyone had a happy Easter!

Hugs,
Amy

[Berkshire Road]

Oh, Amy, I love the picture you have up now!

So last night my idiot husband went off to sleep w/o reminding me about Easter,and all the stuff was in our room. I woke up at 3 am with a panic attack, and realized I had forgotten to do the basket! Had to get goodies out of close (which Jack somehow managed to sleep through), go into the garage to find the basket, do all the arraning, and then hide it somewhere in the house. And THAT'S when Jack woke up, and came downstairs to scold me for "pacing around in the middle of the night and waking everyone (meaning, Jack) up! I tried to explain about my heroic efforts to get Easter taken care of, and he just says, "Oh, good, thanks for doing that. Now do you think you can quiet dows?" Well, DUH, of course, everything was finished. Ingrate.

But Susannah was thrilled with the basket, so that (almost) made up for it!