E is for Easter tattoos
Today I took the babies to the city's Easter egg hunt, held at our favorite state park. Turns out everybody who's anybody was there. We saw one of Isaac's classmates and his mommy and brothers, a mommy and her kids from the playgroup Jacob and I attend on Thursdays, and then, unexpectedly, the CarlosAnthony family.
The kids were tasked with loading up on their share of over 3,000 plastic eggs filled with candy, plastic trinkets, and, in an ultimate mindbender, Easter-themed tattoos. But before they could go, the Parks & Rec officials made everybody wait for an odiously loooooong time behind a police-taped barrier, with bazillions of eggs just. sitting. riiiiight. there. It's all good, though. It gave us more time to plot our egg-nabbing strategy.
And then we were off! This was Jacob's first Easter egg hunt, and he got the hang of it quickly.
He and Isaac were both puzzled by their first egg, shaking it, wanting to stop to open it and glory in whatever mysteries it might hold. It's a good thing their psycho mommy was right there to squash that curiosity right out of them. "More eggs, more! Do you hear me? MOOOORE!"
And I will have you know that I am a flunkie mommy who does not own baskets specifically for this occasion. As such, they are each using Longaberger baskets Daddy and I got as wedding presents. They're not just for holding dinner rolls anymore.
On our way out there was an actual Easter Bunny to shake hands and pose with. Isaac was really keen to do this, and I was happy to oblige.
posted by Claire at 9:59 PM
2 Comments:
As a former park and rec staffer, that picture of the eggs brought back memories(nightmares!)of EGGSTRAVAGANZA!! Do you know how many weeks and different volunteers it takes to stuff those eggs? How many high school service clubs, sorority girls, underage college kid drinkers who got busted in a bar sweep and have to do community service?? A truckload of plastic bags filled with eggs which arrives at the park at 5:00am where more volunteers fortified with coffee (lots of coffee!) scatter them about the park. The hordes arrive, salivate by the ropeline and in 10 minutes it is OVER (until the next year) I loved the whole thing and can't wait until Graham is ready for his first crack at running over the other minions on the way to gathering his loot!
Oh, lizardmom, how your comment makes me laugh. Especially because there was a table FULL of sorority tartlets in their matching lettered T-shirts helping out. AND because -- after all of that set up by the workers, and the waiting by the kids -- it was totally over after 10 minutes.
But you're right, it was so fun! We will be back again next year, for sure.
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