Easter Bunny

A long tucked away memory was my Dad dressing up as the Easter bunny and taking jelly beans around to people he knew and his office workers. He had a pink bunny costume with a fluffy white tail. Tall ears that were wired and stood straight up off his head except that over time the wires had bent into crooked shapes. The costume was completed by a funny pair of oversized wire "glasses" wrapped in pink tape, and he drew on a button nose and whiskers with makeup.

I remember people looking startled when he approached and then laughing when they realized who was behind the funny glasses. Dad can be a ham, and so he would play up his role, taking hops and shaking his fluffy tail. He left people giggling as he hopped away.

He only did this a few times but I was reminded of it when Lauren was asked to play the Easter bunny for our community egg hunt. She sat in a cute white gazebo and posed with kids on her lap for parents to get a picture. I loved the connection to her grandpa.

Here is Lauren as the Easter bunny with Geral on her lap. A bag of jelly beans to the first person to send me a picture of Dad dressed as the Easter bunny!

Update: Mom came through and found pictures of Dad as the Easter bunny too! Here he is with four adorable children who were undoubtably happy to see him. The date on the photo is 1971 for those who are curious. 

This one is undated but I believe it was a few years later.