An Easter Surprise

With Easter having recently passed, I remembered something funny from Easter 3 years ago. My youngest daughter Maile Rose was 1 year old at the time. We never have the "Easter Bunny" hide real eggs because we wont eat them and we don't want to be wasteful. Instead he hides chocolate covered marshallow eggs, which we feel are much more delicious. When Maile rose found her first egg she was hesitant about picking it up. She stared at it for a minute. Then she said "yucky poo-poos." I'm sure you have all seen these eggs and know that they could resemble a turd. Of course, my wife and I found this to be hilarious. We tried to tell her to pick it up and put it in her basket but she wasn't going for it. We had our older daughter Ellie pick it up to show Maile Rose but again she said "yucky poo-poos." We told her it wasn't poop but she didn't believe us so we had Ellie take a bite. We then saw one of the best facial expressions you could ever imagine seeing in your life. It was a look of shock and awe and amazement of what that 1 year old saw - her big sister biting into poo. It was quite an amusing day for us. It still took us another half hour to convince her that the eggs were edible but we finally did. Now it's her favorite Easter candy.