Egg Hunt Part One

     Next weekend is Easter, but this weekend we had a couple egg hunts to head out to. We started the day at the Egg Dash, which is the egg hunt sponsored by my employer. Last year was the first year we went but it has been a ton of fun. There are always bouncy houses set up along with games and face painting all to do before  the dash begins.

     The kids had a blast and got a TON of candy. On top of that it was a beautiful day in the middle of our gross weather.

Picking a sucker

Climbing the bouncy house

Look at all those eggs!

Eggs EVERYWHERE!

Ready to get some eggs

Froggie wasn't sure about it… 

And they're off

Finding some eggs

Filling up his bag

Check out all those eggs!

     After we headed back towards home we headed to the college campus and did another egg hunt there. Froggie got the hang of egg hunting pretty quickly and Big Brother is already a pro!

Big Brother and the bunny

Ready to get more eggs

Froggie and the bunny

waiting to go get some more eggs

Big Brother and his bucket

Froggie and her bucket

Hopping Down the Bunny Trail

     To kick off our weekend we decided to head to the mall for their Easter trail of treats and to meet the Easter Bunny (since this was his big kick off for bunny pictures). We waited to see the bunny before doing our walk to collect some candy in our Easter buckets. Big Brother was so excited and Froggie kept peeking through the gate at the giant egg and would point and get excited again. She was so cute, even the photographer from the mall took some pictures of her!

Peeking at the Easter Bunny

Checking everything out

too cute!

     This all ended as soon as we went in to see the bunny though. Big Brother wanted to sit on the decorations and Froggie cried every time Hubby put her down. We ended up just saying hi to the bunny and going to follow the line with the promise that if the kids were able to listen well while they collected their treats.

Big Brother with his bucket

Playing peek-a-boo

checking out her bucket.

trading eggs for treats

trading eggs for treats

     The kids had fun collecting their treats and we did end up going back to try a picture with the bunny with the understanding that there would be no sitting on the decorations. Froggie cried but Big Brother sat so nicely with the bunny. I don't really buy into perfectly posed pictures, I've never cared if my kids have a binky or a toy to keep them calm and I feel that needed to be said as an explanation as to why I paid for a picture of my son sitting so nicely with the bunny while his sister cried on the bunny's lap. That being said, here's the picture of the kids with the bunny:

Tumbling, Bunnies and Music… OH MY!

     We started out our Saturday as usual, we packed everyone up and headed to the Y for tumbling. This time around it has been a "parent free" class since kids were struggling to focus when their families were sitting against the wall. I popped in towards the end of his class to check on him after he fell off the bar, but as you can see he was just fine.

Back on the bar

Climbing

     Then we had a snack and headed off to play with some bunnies! Every year a local photographer welcomes some bunnies into the studio to take some pretty unique pictures for Easter. Both kids fell asleep on the way there but weren't too grumpy when the woke up, especially once they met Mr. Checkers! They had fun playing with the bunny and having their pictures taken. I'm not sure what Big Brother liked best, playing with Mr. Checkers or the big bunny cookie he got when it was time to go!

Yummy cookies!

     When we were done with pictures we weren't ready to head home just yet so we took the kids into our local music store. It had been a long time since I'd been in there and it looks quite a bit different but the kids were really excited. Big Brother and Froggie both loved looked at the drums. Froggie found a pair of bongos while Hubby set Big Brother up on an electronic drum set. He did surprisingly well and decided he wanted to take a pair of drumsticks home. Both kids also picked out a shaker shaped like an egg. 

     We've also been looking into enrolling Big Brother in lessons so that he can actually learn to play an instrument. He has such a love for music and all things creative so we toured the building and showed him some of the instruments that he would be able to play now. He showed some interest in the keyboards but it didn't last and he played with the drums for awhile. he was pretty interested in most of the brass instruments but they're a little too big for him at this point (and if he wants to learn later I still have trumpets and books from when I was in middle and high school). He seemed pretty interested in the violin and stated that he thought he would like to play one. So we filed that away and came home to show him some videos of kids and adults playing the violin. He still seemed pretty excited so I started looking into where he could take lessons. Nothing is set in stone and he may change his mind between now and this summer but it looks like he may be starting violin lessons in may!

Playing the bongos

playing on the set

concentrating

He loved it!