egg hunt!

Rafa and Sylvia enjoyed their first egg hunt of this year.  It was this morning at 9am.  So, of course that meant that D ran to the store at 6:30am to buy them baskets.  It's a good thing you can get really adorable ones at the grocery store these days! 

I tried to explain the concept to them before it began so that they would be a little clued in.  It went something like: When they say go, run, run, run and pick up eggs and put them in your basket!  So, we got there and it went like this: R: ran, ran, ran and really had a blast running, but ran past the eggs and just kept running along.  S: found an egg, a cute plastic frog shaped egg that was broken in half.  So, she bent over, tried to put it together, it fell apart again, tried again, it fell apart again, started getting frustrated, so I went over to help put it together, dropped it in her basket and it fell apart again, put it back together, gently put it in the basket, and of course when she got her next egg it fell apart again...you get the idea. 

In some ways, it's a little bit of relief that they weren't hoarding all of the eggs in sight because we don't really need to fight them from eating 25 candies, anyway.  But, I am supposed to bring 20 filled eggs to their school next week, so I was glad they at least picked up 6 each.  So, if I can't manage to dig up 8 eggs from last year or make a trip to the store, it'll at least be respectable to show up with a dozen.h

I think that they'll have at least 3 egg hunts this year, so I'm sure they'll figure it out by the end.  I'm just glad they're not at the age yet when they ask, where does the Easter Bunny come from? and why does the Bunny hide eggs?  and why do we eat baby chicks?  Maybe by the time they get to that age, Siri can answer all their questions.