Egg Hunting

Last Sunday (Palm Sunday) we had a Spring Festival at church. There was food, bouncy houses and other games, the Easter bunny, and most importantly an Easter Egg hunt! We've been playing with plastic eggs and Noah's Easter baskets at home for a couple weeks now, so I knew he was ready to go "egg hunting". He was very excited and did a good job picking up eggs, but did it at his own pace. He just didn't get the whole frenzied mad dash for eggs that the older kids did.

This year the kids were only grouped in two groups-5 and under and 6 and up. So Noah was really competing with some well seasoned egg hunters (and also some parents who were just scooping eggs by the handful into their kid's basket, but hey-I'm not judging anyone). Since he wasn't in a huge rush we made our way around the corner of the building where there weren't as many kids at first and found some nice piles of eggs all clumped together. We both really tried not to help too much and really let Noah just do it however he wanted to (easier said than done sometimes!). I helped carry the basket some, but other than me picking up eggs that he missed when attempting to drop in his basket, he picked them all up on his own. And you can see by the looks on his face that he had a great time in the process!

We didn't do much else at the festival. We did go see the Easter bunny, but Noah clamped down his legs around me (I was holding him at the time) and wouldn't go close to him, even when I went and sat there so we didn't force the issue (he had a similar reaction to Santa this year). We attempted the bounce house but all he cared about was the slide and the only way you could get to that was by going inside the big part and he didn't want to do that either--I think there were too many big kids inside at the time. We did watch Daddy play some basketball though and Noah kept talking about "Daddy going fast". A good time was had by all.

Egg hunt starts-trying to figure out which way to go

And he's off!
Score! A big pile all clumped together!

Now where to? The crazy thing is, he left half that pile on the ground. I think he just wanted to walk around a "find" them.

Daddy's basketball game...some of the youth girls were trash talking and saying they could beat Mike in basketball or football. Mike and our friend Nate took on 4 girls and beat them. The girls apparently want a rematch.