Saturday, March 31, 2007

Easter Egg Hunt

Today we went to an Easter Egg Hunt hosted by the MWR up at the Naval Recreation Center. We met Kaylee and her parents up there. The kids all had fun, though the adults were slightly disappointed. I loved the fact that they had the egg hunts divided into a lot of smaller age groups. The kids all 'hunted' in the under 2 age group. I know Jaycob is above 2, but they were doing them all at the same time in different locations and its kinda hard for Daddy to be in two places at once with the camera. So I figured it wasn't going to hurt anyone if he 'hunted' with Abygail and Kaylee!!

It was nice that the eggs were just thrown over a ball field and the kids just had to gather them. The thing that just bugged me is ALL the prizes in the eggs were NOT for an under 3 crowd, let alone for an under 2 crowd!! Quarter sized compasses, those jelly things you throw against the window, dress-up rings, quarter sized tops, and friendship bracelets. The bracelets were really the only thing the kids will be able to play with. Now I understand there really isn't a whole lot that you can put in an egg that would be suitable for a child younger then 2, but the least they could do was put candy in them for the parents to eat and decide what was suitable for their child. Tootsie rolls, M&M's, Skittles, ect.... Instead they put toys in there that a young child can obviously tell is a toy, but you have to tell them they can't play with it!! That's just cruel!! Ok.... I'm done ranting now, sorry!!!

The kids also got their faces painted. I really wasn't sure if Jaycob would let the girl draw on his face, but he crawled right up there! He sat there and held really still for her. Daddy took a picture when she was done and showed it to him on the camera. He thought it was pretty funny!! Abygail held really still and did really well too!



Oh Yeah!! Jaycob also got to meet a lady dressed up as an Easter Bunny!! He wasn't afraid of her or anything. He patiently waited his turn, took his piece of candy, said "Thank-You", and went about his merry way!

After the kids participated in everything that was suitable for their age we went and played on the playgrounds. Jaycob fell in love with this really HIGH old metal slide. He went all the way up the steep steps all by himself and slid all the way down himself, even controlling his speed down it so he didn't fall off the end like the other children!!

Fun was had by all... I'm surprised at least Abygail didn't fall asleep on the way home. We had put the kids down for nap extra early hoping they would sleep and get in some kind of nap before we went. They both ended up with about 30 minutes of sleep. They were both really good the whole time we were there, and from my understanding were both good all night all the way through bedtime!! I don't know though, I had went out for an evening with 'the girls'!!

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:20 PM

    Aww sounds like the kids had a good time!!

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  2. Looks like you guys had a great time! Easter Egg hunts are so much fun!

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