On Saturday April 2nd, Cedar City had its annual Easter egg hunt in the park. We had heard that it was a popular event and that we needed to arrive 30 minutes early in order to get a good spot. We got there early and got our spot. We were in the 0-3 yrs group. There were about 200 other kids in the same group. 
Just before they let the kids go, they dumped out boxes and boxes of plastic eggs. There must have been somewhere around 5,000 eggs just for our group. They said that they had 20,000 eggs ready to go. There were four different age groups. You do the math.
The Easter Bunny arrived on a fire truck and Seth was watching him closely. I told Seth, "That bunny is going to get you," and he gave out a little yelp. After that he would not look away from the bunny. It did not help that some parents were forcing their little kids to get pictures with the bunny and they were screaming and fighting. This only made Seth more apprehensive.
When they gave the signal, a wave of little kids made a mad dash for the eggs.
Seth did not let them distract him. He stayed focused on the task at hand and got the goods. After all the eggs were collected, the organizers asked that we empty all our plastic eggs and return the shells to large garbage cans scattered everywhere. This way they would not have to buy 20,000 plastic eggs next year.
After quite an eventful morning, Seth took a nap with his favorite book, Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham".
There was snow on the ground during the Easter egg hunt. On my way home from work, at 6 pm that same day, I noticed that all the snow had melted. Spring weather never cooperates.
3 comments:
Little Seth is such a doll. Look at all of the experiences he is getting in Cedar. He was tuckered right out from all of the egg hunting. Who got his candy?
Now that is a lot of eggs! That is cool. It is always nice when the kids have an eventful day and take a nap easy.
Well Seth is one little lucky guy. Glad he wasn't too shy to go get the eggs. Looks like there were plenty to go around.
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