Easter Eggstravaganza

Easter.

What can you say?

Eggs = Plastic.

Baskets = Well hidden.

Surprises = Didn't fit in baskets.

Candy = Eaten.

Parents = Exhausted.

Kids = Hyper.

That about sums it up.

Now for some deets.

Our kids enjoyed FOUR egg hunts.

Yes.  You read that correctly.

FOUR.

The first was a community egg hunt which was held on Saturday.

There had to be at least a thousand or more kids there.

There were so many people that I had to drop the kids and Huzbend off, find a parking spot and then run back to the field to find them.

Here they are pre-hunt.....

Look at all those eeeeeeeeeeeegs.

The rope was dropped and the Great Egg Scramble was over.

It took less than five minutes.

The kids were happy.  Most (but not all) of the treats were allergy friendly.

Huzbend spent most of Saturday night finishing an epic

video game.  He didn't get to sleep until 2am.

He's been playing this game since NOVEMBER.

That is what happens, gamers, when you have kids.

I, on the other hand, spent most of the night filling eggs, writing clues and making baskets.

I had the same bed time - 2am.

The kids were up early and ready to go.

Ugh.

Let the egg hunts BEGIN!!!!!!

There were THREE more that day.

One in the house, first thing in the morning.

One outside, right before lunch.

And one more at our neighbors house.

Here are the kids waiting to be released.....

That's a lot of eggs.

And A LOT of candy.

I jam packed the eggs with candy.  I don't know what I was thinking.
We had SO MUCH candy.  I went totally overboard.

And, of course, the candy had to be eaten AS IT WAS FOUND.

It wasn't so much Mikey as it was the Sultan of Sweets.

The Candy Queen went straight to work eating as much
candy as could be shoved in her mouth.....

Note to self:

SELF:  Next year put candy only in the baskets and not in the eggs.

This year, I hid the clue to the kids Easter baskets in one of
the eggs that they found.

And THEN, in one basket, I started a whole new set of clues
as to the location of an Easter surprise....

OOOOOOOOOOO

It was Huzbend's idea to have Katie read the clues.
It worked out great.

The kids loved their surprises.

Here's Mikey swashbuckling away.

And here is Dr. Katie saving some animals at 

her LEGO veterinary clinic.

By the end of the day, everyone was exhausted.

At times, some of us seemed to be on a steep decline towards insanity.

The night ended with Katie laying in bed, crying.

She was shaking uncontrollably and was complaining that she, 

"could not keep her eyes shut and fall asleep."

She had completely OD'd on sugar.

My bad.

Conversations with Kids

Katie has a "Read-Aloud Chart"  for school that we fill out every month.

Upon returning it, she gets to pick a "Prize" out of the "Treasure Box".

Yesterday, this is the story that I heard:

"I turned in my reading chart.  I got to pick a toy outta the treasure box.  I looked in the box, I didn't see anything useful.  Everything that was useful, I had at home.  But then there were frogs in the bottom of the box.  They looked useful and I didn't have any at home.  There was a July flag in there, but we already have one of those.  So, I got the frog."

She named her little yellow plastic frog Rib-A-Dib.

Last night Mikey woke at 11:30 yelling for me.  I went into his room and he was sitting up in his crib.

"I can't drink my water, Mommy,"  he explained.  He lifted the sippy cup to his mouth and proceeded to show me how he couldn't drink from it.  "See?"

It was upside down.

"It's upside down, buddy.  Try it this way."

"Oh.  Okay."

He took a few swigs and laid back down.

He then dismissed me with a dreamy, "Goodnight."