News flash! We didn't paint eggs yesterday! What is it about painting eggs that makes me procrastinate so? Instead, we ventured out to have shrimp tacos for lunch with Tony and afterward visited him at work where they had a carnival style Easter egg hunt. There was popcorn and lemonade, face painting, bounce houses [my kids call them jumpy tents], pictures with the bunny, and of course the egg hunt, which isn't a hunt but a mad dash for thousands of plastic eggs in plain sight, in piles even, thrown out on the lawn. There were hundreds of kids [and their parents too, *cringe*] racing for eggs and it lasted about seven seconds. Kinda weird really. For us, the festivities ended with a giant musical chairs game which Emily came in 5th place. It was cute to watch the faces the kids make as they are eliminated, some just smile, but most looked mad or tearful as the announcer said "sorry you're out" in her most compassionate voice.
In another egg hunt on Thursday, I took Eva because everyone else was in school. It was my mom's group that held this one. Eva hunted and gathered up a grand total of two eggs, she was so intrigued by the first one that I had to strongly insist that she pick up another! That actually was fine with me [with four kids we never have a shortage of candy, trust me] but two big girls with enormous baskets filled with eggs came to Eva and very generously let her take eggs from their baskets, it was sweet really. Eva was one happy little egg-hunter!
We also hit the animal appreciation day at school where Wyatt had a friendly little staring contest with a camel and the llama's were quite taken with Eva. I told Eva, "look, that llama likes you, he wants to meet you!" Her reply was [this is funny, get ready] "no Mommy, I don't want him to eat me." I am worried now, because I repeated it several times, that I may have created in her an unnatural fear of llamas. Well, they do have big teeth! More pictures of my kids and the animals here.
So, maybe we will paint our egg masterpieces later today. I have an appointment with my sister-in-law which is very important to my well-being and will take many hours of my afternoon, then we will see.
Cheers to my cousin Jerry, now the father of two fine boys as of yesterday! Congratulations to Jerry, Kris, and big brother Wilder! Tony, myself, and my kids send you our love. We are all so very happy for you!
To everyone else, Happy Easter. I hope you enjoy the day on Sunday. All the special meaning and bright beauty that the day holds, I hope it shines on you. Peace.
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