{"id":3888,"date":"2014-04-14T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2014-04-12T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T00:30:18","slug":"lilians-first-easter-egg-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/lilians-first-easter-egg-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilian’s First Easter Egg Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

They recently opened up a fancy new outdoor mall<\/a> not too far from our house. It has a bunch of clothing stores, a Whole Paycheck<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

(I kinda love it.)<\/p>\n

(Shhhhh.)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, meet the Easter Bunny, and then pick up a gallon of milk on the way home.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But, hey, festive hay bales!<\/p>\n

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There were a lot of people there. A lot<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

(I gave her exactly one hershey kiss to eat.)<\/p>\n

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(She was ecstatic.)<\/p>\n

Lilian will have her own easter egg hunt next week, and we had a nice morning outside together. Eggs shmeggs, I say.<\/p>\n

Plus, hey, we kinda met the Easter Bunny.<\/p>\n

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Well, I<\/em> met the Easter Bunny. Lilian was too busy clinging to me in terror.<\/p>\n

(Best. Mom. EVAR.)<\/p>\n

They also had a dance party. And, if you know me, you know I looooove<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

(Lilian won an eraser.)<\/p>\n

(I deemed it a choking hazard and took it back.)<\/p>\n

(Like I said… Best. Mom. EVAR.)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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