Thanks Easter Bunny

Well, the Magic Easter Bunny has been put away for another year. I know most people with children all have visits from the actual Easter bunny, but in my family, we have another tradition...which we call the Magic Bunny.

The Magic Bunny arrives about a week or so before Easter and he looks like an ordinary porcelain bunny figurine. He sits in a little basket with faux grass and when all is quiet, he magically lays chocolate Easter eggs. Usually, it's one egg per child (although i believe my brother's bunny usually lays one egg per member of the household. There are no hard and fast rules to the bunny's methods, after all, he IS Magic). The Magic Bunny has been in my family for generations and we have all loved it. I remember coming home from school and rushing to see if he had laid anything and he usually had.

So, I brought the bunny out last weekend, and Kieran immediately fell in love. He would point and say "Bunny?" and we would check to see if anything had been laid. He would laugh and laugh with glee when there were eggs in the basket.

Then he got sick and lost interest. For a few days he was happy to see if the bunny laid anything, but never wanted to eat the eggs. (You KNOW you're a sick 2 year old when....) Then over the weekend when he started to feel better, he renewed a half-hearted interest in the bunny and its "offspring" but he is still not 100 percent, so it wasn't really the same.

Anyway, on Easter Sunday the bunny disappears from his basket but not before going a little bit crazy and hiding eggs around living room. This year, he also managed to a lay a Cars-themed 2-tiered spiral raceway, which I can only imagine really hurt. Makes birthing an baby seem positively painless in comparison I would think.

So, another Easter is over. Next year, hopefully Kieran isn't down for the count during prime Magic Bunny season. Fingers crossed.