So somehow I was in charge of the Easter Egg hunt in our subdivision this year (I volunteered to start a "welcoming committee" & wah-lah, all of a sudden I had two weeks to stuff like 700 eggs! Many thanks to Kathryn, Timmy, Katie, & Sammy for helping stuff!) Anyway, because of our Tulsa trip & our upcoming Florida trip, I picked the 15th for the egg hunt...which happened to be a cold, wet, snowy Spring Break weekend! We actually pushed the hunt back one day b/c it really did snow here on the 15th, and we figured that even the die-hard egg hunters might not come out in the snow! The 16th wasn't a whole lot warmer, but atleast the rain held off until the hunt was done.
All in all, I was thrilled with the day, because my son had the time of his life. He wasn't too excited about picking up eggs (probably b/c while Mike was hiding all 700 of them he kept telling Henry not to touch them), but....he LOVED the Easter bunny. I'm not sure he's ever seen a "character" (except for a purple crayon at the Crayola store), but he wasn't afraid at all. He kept telling me, "Mom, I'd like to say hello to the Easter bunny." Even when we were standing in front of him. Henry watched as maybe 4 other interested kids interacted with the bunny and then headed home. He then had the bunny all to himself! He told the bunny that we were on a "big playground," sang the bunny his "ABC's" (while the bunny conducted), and reminded the bunny that "trains say chugga, chugga, choo choo!" It was really funny. I can't imagine what the bunny was thinking! Before the novelty of the bunny wore off, & after we had cleaned up, we went home, watching the bunny disappear behind the school.
So somehow I was in charge of the Easter Egg hunt in our subdivision this year (I volunteered to start a "welcoming committee" & wah-lah, all of a sudden I had two weeks to stuff like 700 eggs! Many thanks to Kathryn, Timmy, Katie, & Sammy for helping stuff!) Anyway, because of our Tulsa trip & our upcoming Florida trip, I picked the 15th for the egg hunt...which happened to be a cold, wet, snowy Spring Break weekend! We actually pushed the hunt back one day b/c it really did snow here on the 15th, and we figured that even the die-hard egg hunters might not come out in the snow! The 16th wasn't a whole lot warmer, but atleast the rain held off until the hunt was done.
All in all, I was thrilled with the day, because my son had the time of his life. He wasn't too excited about picking up eggs (probably b/c while Mike was hiding all 700 of them he kept telling Henry not to touch them), but....he LOVED the Easter bunny. I'm not sure he's ever seen a "character" (except for a purple crayon at the Crayola store), but he wasn't afraid at all. He kept telling me, "Mom, I'd like to say hello to the Easter bunny." Even when we were standing in front of him. Henry watched as maybe 4 other interested kids interacted with the bunny and then headed home. He then had the bunny all to himself! He told the bunny that we were on a "big playground," sang the bunny his "ABC's" (while the bunny conducted), and reminded the bunny that "trains say chugga, chugga, choo choo!" It was really funny. I can't imagine what the bunny was thinking! Before the novelty of the bunny wore off, & after we had cleaned up, we went home, watching the bunny disappear behind the school.
4 comments:
that is so great that you planned an easter egg hunt for the neighborhood- I am impressed, but definitely not surprised! :)
um... but I am surprised that Henry was not a bit more freaked out by that easter bunny- he looks kinda scary to me...
did other neighborhood kids show up?
I've seen scarier. I dig Henry's awesome mittens, but what's up with the dragon easter-basket?
Your kiddos look so cute! I bet that was a lot of work you did for the hunt but well worth it I'm sure.
(Papa Von George...its a FROG that Gram and Grampy gave Henry for his first Easter :)) What a fun experience for Henry and the photo ops are fabulous. I remember one Christmas, a perfect Santa came to the Children's mass to greet them and while other kids where 'screaming' about Santa...Mike yells over the crowd: "Santa we've been waiting for you" and then rushed to give him the biggest hug. It broke the 'ice' for a few...made Santa's day for sure! Thanks for sharing!
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