Daily Ada: 31 March 2013: Easter!

So Easter arrived and we decided to try out an egg hunt for Ada. 

This is what happens when you don't have "real" dye or the energy to make some up

Ada's first egg!

I am the egg-man

We got Ada ready with an egg carton in her push cart thing to gather. We had also inadvertently done some training previously by giving her the "Hide and Squeak" eggs toy months ago. 

After being distracted by a book (which we had to explain was not an egg)...

Not an egg

 ...she spotted her first egg.

Wait a minute...

Which, amazingly, she sprint-crawled towards to collect, without any further prompting from us.

Gotcha!

She then found the rest of the eggs, and carefully (mostly) placed them in the egg carton in her cart. It was a great success! The only down side was my poor judgement in putting the egg that had a face on it (that Mark drew, in the picture above), in the hippopotamus's mouth on her "activity center." That one we had to show Ada since it wasn't visible, and then she got a little freaked out by it. In hindsight, a face inside a hippo's mouth was maybe a bit gruesome for a kid's first Easter hunt. Oops.

But that aside, Ada seemed to enjoy it. I was just surprised that it went as well as it did. We did it two more times; probably more for me than Ada, since I was so delighted that she "got it."

Then we went to Brean and had a British style egg hunt for (BIG) chocolate eggs in the backyard with Nanny Kate and Auntie Sarah. Ada didn't do too much hunting, but she seemed to like carrying the spoils around.

Daily Ada: 30 March 13: Getting ready for Easter!

I decided to demonstrate egg dying for Easter for Ada. It's not done over here, so they don't have all the usual trappings (i.e. PAAS kits) readily available (though I probably could have found them online if I had planned ahead), so I had to make do with what I could get easily. And the other problem is that pretty much 99% of eggs over here are brown, rather than white, so I had to track down some super fancy eggs, that where a pale blue, rather than white - the closest I could get.

The result is that it didn't work, but thankfully last year Mom gave me little dye-pens (from PAAS, of course) that hadn't dried out completely. Between that and some washable markers, we have some slightly colored eggs.

It did also give me an opportunity to use the super cool technique I found online for dipping the eggs - put them inside a whisk. It's awesome!

Ada was most excited by the egg carton. Whatever.

See - egg in the whisk! It totally works!

Ada's first egg

It's not working, but hey, we tried

Bonus photo from our trip to Clevedon today. It was super cold.

Daily Ada: 14 March 13

We got a new towel from IKEA. She wouldn't take it off for a while.

Ada catch up: 5 March 13

She managed to get into the basket all by herself. Then shook the tambourine to celebrate.

She has two of my tank tops on. She really likes putting on clothes.

More work with the chicken puppet.

Ada catch up: 28 February 13

Here are a few photos of what Ada has been up to, which I haven't been fast enough to post as "Daily Ada."

Daily Ada: 25 February 2013: Happy Birthday, Mimi!

Getting instructions

Ready to present!

Daily Ada: 17 February 13

Ada's first official step. I was taking a picture of her standing on her own (she had just stood up from sitting on the floor, without the aid of a wall), when she decided to take a step. She seemed pleased with herself. She immediately sat down.
She hasn't seemed interested in trying again since then, so maybe that was enough.