Adventures in Egg Hunting

After Casey got back from breakfast with "Big Papa" we left to go to the town of Jackson to participate in the Easter Egg Hunt they were sponsoring this weekend.  Unfortunately, we got there just a bit too late and missed the hunt for Casey's age bracket.  That's okay though, mommy thought ahead and while Casey was at breakfast she went out and bought some plastic eggs.  We got back to "Big Papa's" house (he has a big yard, with lots of hiding spots) and Casey played inside with "Big Papa" while mommy hid eggs in the yard.  The first round I just scattered eggs throughout the yard and hid a few in planters and shrubbery.  Casey LOVED this game.  He wouldn't carry his basket with him though, he just left it on the patio and ran around the yard like a maniac picking up as many eggs as he could and carefully bring them back to the basket (he maxed out at three eggs per trip).  He had a blast shouting out the different colors of eggs as he'd find them throughout the yard.  He found all the hidden eggs and I took him back inside so I could set up for the second round of egg hunting.

(Casey dropping eggs in his basket, three at a time)







              

(Casey pointing to where the next group of eggs is)

Round two I decided to hide majority of the eggs and scatter two or three in the grass.  Casey's initial instinct was to run out in the yard and look in all the same spots the hidden ones were in during round one.  No luck.  So I gave him a hint or two on where to look.  This got his wheels turning and he started following the clues I was giving him.  Eventually I had to stop hiding eggs and help "Big Papa" out with some yard work, so we pulled out Casey's dump truck and he kept transferring eggs between the basket and the truck.  I watched him play his egg transferring game and he had me amazed because he was acting out a whole scenario of how important it was to transfer the eggs and to "BE CAREFUL, TRUCK-A!"   If an egg would fall out of the back of the truck, it was tragic in Casey's world and he'd go back and scoop up the egg and say "Oh no" very dramatically.  It was pretty entertaining.

This was our practice run for the big egg hunt next Saturday at the country club.  I think he'll do just fine now that he understands how exciting it is to go find all the eggs that he can.  Just wait until he realizes that there will be candy in the eggs the next time he does an egg hunt!  I can only imagine the reaction that is going to get.