We had the most wonderful time at the local Easter Egg hunt. Every year, it's held at the Lairmont Manor - a historical manor that is commonly used to host weddings but once a year gets taken over by small, adorable munchins searching for sugar like pigs searching for truffles.
The kids all line up for the starting 'Go!' The eggs for the little kids are hidden in plain sight (come to think of it, it's not really hiding. It's more like 'gently and lovingly placed every egg in close proximity to small ankles and within eyesight of all but the blindest of squirrels').
The kiddos very much enjoyed the easy placement and hoovered up eggs with candy as though they were training for the Annual Vaccum Cleaner Convention (which, fun fact, does have vacuum cleaning competitions).
Equally fun fact: Jamisen still has ALL of his candy over three weeks later. Lily has none. Jamisen also is judiciously using his candy to reward Lily for being extra cooperative. The kid understands motivation theory.
Baby Alise was just as into the egg hunting and both girls were happily oblivious for the real reason of the day (queue ominous yet somewhat celebratory music) the gollllllllden Easter Egg.
Jamisen heard about the Golden Easter Egg and was intrigued and, his competitive streak totally came out. He wanted that Golden Egg SO bad. He was strategic about trying to hunt it out. And when another father "helped" his son find the Golden Egg, we got to have many many conversations about cheating. Thanks random Dad for that early-learning ethics conversation.
The kids loved the face painter. Jamisen became a pirate (which was SO annoying to try to wash off later) and Lily chose an orange and white baseball to be painted on her cheek. Her mind works in mysterious ways.
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