They recently opened up a fancy new outdoor mall not too far from our house. It has a bunch of clothing stores, a Whole Paycheck Foods, as well as a barre studio and one of those blow-dry salons. Basically, it’s a place where women with much nicer hair than mine go to wear yoga pants and drink iced caramel lattes from Starbucks.
(I kinda love it.)
(Shhhhh.)
The merchants’ association organized a kids’ easter egg hunt on Saturday. Kristian had to do some off-hours work, so we decided that Lilian and I would have a little girls outing. We figured we’d get a few plastic eggs, pay our respects to the Hilltop Steakhouse cows, meet the Easter Bunny, and then pick up a gallon of milk on the way home.
It was their first ever easter egg hunt (like a I said, it’s a fairly new shopping center), and it wasn’t super organized. I might be a stickler about these sorts of things, but I don’t think that the line for people who pre-registered should be ten times longer than the line for people who didn’t.
But, hey, festive hay bales!
There were a lot of people there. A lot of people there. So many people, they had to expand the area that they used for the 0-3 year old egg hunt. Unfortunately, an awful lot of those people weren’t so good at following directions, and they all rushed in before the hunt had officially started. Lilian and I waited until they gave the actual go-ahead…. and there were no more eggs left by the time we got in there.
“We put out 1500 eggs! 1500 eggs!” the announcer kept saying. I guess they were a little surprised by the capacity for some three-year-olds to fill up their baskets. They had a few extra eggs for kids who didn’t get any, so Lilian didn’t go home empty-handed.
And, let’s be honest here. I’m not eating any candy these days. Kristian is not eating very much candy these days. Lilian doesn’t exactly need a lot of chocolate in her life. Two eggs was plenty enough for us.
(I gave her exactly one hershey kiss to eat.)
(She was ecstatic.)
Lilian will have her own easter egg hunt next week, and we had a nice morning outside together. Eggs shmeggs, I say.
Plus, hey, we kinda met the Easter Bunny.
Well, I met the Easter Bunny. Lilian was too busy clinging to me in terror.
(Best. Mom. EVAR.)
They also had a dance party. And, if you know me, you know I looooove a good dance party. Lilian is apparently a chip off the ol’ block. So, we boogied for a good long time. I even won a free burrito from Boloco for my dancing.
(Lilian won an eraser.)
(I deemed it a choking hazard and took it back.)
(Like I said… Best. Mom. EVAR.)
We’re having so much fun with Lilian these days. I miss being able to soothe her with some gentle shushing, and definitely I miss having her fall asleep on my chest. But, I sure do love being able to take her out and do stuff with her.