Saturday, April 17, 2010

Easter Egg Hunt

So I looked and looked online trying to find a community Easter Egg Hunt to bring Bradley too. He loves putting things in buckets and taking them out so I thought he'd get a blast out of Easter this year. I found one at the Library, told Katie and Connor about it and they met us there.Bradley was excited to see Connor and they were having a good time kicking dirt together waiting for the hunt to start. Now, I remember going to these before with Mindy when Katie was really little and people were really nasty, actually pushing and pulling people just to get to the eggs - I was hoping it would be better this time. There are different age groups for different areas, ours was 0-3 years - it was the smallest area and it, by far, had the most kids - not very smart. We waited by the line, explaining to the kids that they were to go in and get the eggs and put them in their baskets as soon as the lady said "go" - they acted like they understood and were ready to go. The lady yelled "go" - people stampeded forward - Bradley started crying and turned around to me for help :( Poor thing, I don't blame him being scared at all - people are WAY too aggressive! I picked him up and brought him to the middle as quickly as I could so we could get to a place where their weren't so many people yet.I put him down and tried to show him how much fun picking up eggs was, but it didn't work - he was too scared of all the people running around crazy! We ended up getting 2 eggs and then a nice lady took pitty on my son's adorable sad face and gave us 4 of her son's eggs. After the people started to go away he started to calm down, and was even smiling through his tear streamed face.He enjoyed the eggs after that and had a lot of fun opening them up and trying to put them back together.After we got home I hid them for him over and over and that was much more fun! I had planned to go to another one later in the day, and I think he would have been more prepared, but I decided it was more fun at home with just the two of us anyway :)

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