1. Friday night there was an Easter Egg / pizza / movie night at the karate school. Pete and Sam both went (along with Pete's friend Brandon), so mom and dad had a romantic trip to Home Depot and Toys R Us. There were 80 kids at the event. Pete won an Easter basket (see picture, below) for finishing in first place in a competition they had. The competition was not egg-related. It involved various physical feats. Apparently Pete also won the other competition they had, so they gave the prize for that one to the second place finisher. This is also the event where Sam collided with another boy, who ended up with a broken nose.
2. The Easter Bunny left eggs scattered throughout the house for the kids to find Sunday morning.
3. Later Sunday morning, there were some egg hunting activities at Church. Pete won a large candy necklace for finding the match to his egg. They also had a little petting zoo, with bunnies, chicks, and lambs. The poor animals were outside in about 30 degree temperatures (April cold snap we have had for almost a week now). Sam also got a little stuffed lamb that he calls "lamby". Coincidentally, I think this is what God called Jesus.
4. Sunday 1:30 was the annual Merrywood Court Easter Egg Hunt (picture below - of course Pete is the only kid not plainly visible in the picture). This year they color-coded the eggs, with color restrictions on each of the age groups (to make sure the little kids could get some of them). The best part of this event is that everyone says the pledge-of-allegiance before the hunting can begin.
5. Sunday evening we did some additional in-house egg hunts. First mom hid the eggs, then Pete, then Sam, and finally dad. The best part was when Sam hid the eggs. We usually give little hints to help each other find things. For example, "If an egg is what you seek, walk three steps forward then take a peek" or "to find an egg in all this junk, look for something with a trunk". But Sam's hints are the best because they have no subtlety. They are always like: "If you want to be the winner, look on that shelf right there". Then he points to the egg and starts screaming.
2 comments:
wow- lots of egg hunts! we didn't do any. too tired and too cold for the sat. one at the local church, too cold sunday. we'll make up for it next year in the warmer climate. love the color coding concept- I had heard of that before. greta idea to do the street egg hunt, maybe I'll try and organize one on our new street in Boca next year. Kudos to Pete for winning that huge basket!
Congrats to Pete on winning the prizes - the winnah and still champion! How super it is to have such nice comaraderie on your court - very nice photo. I think I found where Pete is, this second time looking at the photo.
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