Hunting Season

Easter egg hunting season, that is.  Hahaha.  For the last few days, Alex has been begging to do an Easter egg hunt.  Yesterday, I finally broke down and bought a bunch of plastic eggs and candy and let the kids go to town after dinner.  I figured since I'm still standing firm in my no electronics decree, the least I could do was provide some kind of fun activity to give them something else to do.  Hahaha.  :)

Alex was so excited about the prospect of an egg hunt, that he actually started filling the eggs on the drive home from the store yesterday morning.  He wasn't too happy that his task had to be interrupted in order to go to preschool, but I promised him he could finish when he got home and that we could definitely do the hunt when the kids got home, and he was appeased.

What I wasn't counting on after school was the fact that Ethan was VERY opposed to doing an Easter egg hunt before it was actually Easter.  The things he finds to have strong and opposing opinions on never ceases to amaze me.  Hahaha.  After convincing him that we can do more hunts all week and weekend long, he got over it enough until he realized that the GIRLS were planning on doing the hiding, and that prompted another explosion.  Apparently he's ALWAYS the one who hides them and no one else is ever allowed.  Because that makes perfect sense, right??  Hahaha.  I eventually ended up needing to divide all 96 eggs into 3 groups so that Ethan, Grace, and Sophie all had the same amount to hide.  Those kids!

Once "dinner" was scarfed down {and I do use that term loosely, because it was a hodge-podged night of cereal, muffins, and leftovers}, they headed on out for the hunt!  But not before I made them pose for a picture or two.  :)  Ethan emceed the event, explaining the rules {? as if no one has ever done an Easter egg hunt before ?} and then giving Alex and Jane a 30 second head start.  The hunt was over in less than five minutes, and the fun was over shortly after when I told everyone they could choose two eggs to keep candy from and then all the rest were going back in the bag for another day.   I'm such a fun mom.  ;)

 "bunny ears"   ;)

They'll thank me when we can do another Easter egg hunt on Friday when they have no school, and another one on Sunday when it's actually Easter...  :)