SchoolHouse Rockin' Easter Egg Hunt(s)

At this point it's obvious I won't get my update post in today,  but considering it's Easter & I've got 4 small children, and, and, and - well it just didn't happen.

I've got another HUGE headache - for the record I am way sick of these! I officially lost count of exactly how long it's been since I've had a day without a headache after about 4 months, but that's about when I went to the doctor & I can trace back that treatment enough to say with full confidence it's been way longer than 6 months without a headache. I'm so ready to resolve this, but that seems less & less likely every day & if there is any doubt - I HATE THIS! Sorry for the rant, some days it's just too much & today is really close to being one of those days. There I said it, now it's out & onward we go...

The first big event of this week was Tuesday evening when we attended Nate's 3rd grade music concert. The music teacher, with input from the students & teachers wrote their own program based on SchoolHouse Rock. For those of you who don't know what SchoolHouse Rock is you can search it on YouTube (this one was one of my favorites). I however am old enough to have enjoyed SchoolHouse Rock during my weekly dose of Saturday morning cartoons as a child. Here are a few clips from the concert (yes I could sing a long with every song, & still remembered almost every word), but they are just clips because I've been having very bad camera karma lately. Nate's favorite was electricity (here's the classic version), but they turned down the lights & the camera didn't like that at all, so I wasn't able to record the concert version of it - it may be time to upgrade my camera...

Conjunction Junction

 Just A Bill

Lolly Lolly

No More Kings

The show was great fun. My favorite was the line at the end that said something like "Even though SchoolHouse Rock is from the 70's there is still something we can learn from them today." It good a good laugh from the audience - as if the 70's were some other, alien time. Oh wait, maybe it was....

Next up was Easter Egg Hunting. On Saturday we went to an Easter Egg Hunt, the same one we did last year, but with 1 extra "hunter", it's still hard for me to believe that last year I was pregnant with Maddie, counting down the days until her arrival, but still pregnant.

The Easter Bunny even made an appearance but with so much excitement 3 out of 4 kids 

(plus a Shaser) was the best we could do.

The kids had just was much fun this year as last year. Kassie & Maddie were in the same group. The big kids had been playing with Maddie at home so she would know what to do, but we didn't factor in something ever so important - SHOES. Maddie is an awesome walker but 99% of the time she is bare foot or in socks/footie jammies, the only time she really wears shoes is church and she usually has them pulled off before the first hour (of 3) is over. Easter Egg Hunts are outside - we couldn't very well let her go bare foot there. We frantically searched for a pair of shoes that would fit her & not be too cumbersome for her, we found a pair the perfect size but she wasn't used to wearing them.

We let her walk around as much as possible before hand to get used to the shoes but once the hunt was on she was not going anywhere. Dan finally (against the rules - no parent helping) set her inside the roped off area with 1 egg right in front of her, she was was content to pick it up and sit in the grass and play with it - never getting up to get anymore.

Then I caught the perfect picture! The moment she finally put it in her bucket!What a funny little one. 

Kassie was a force to behold - she buzzed from egg to egg putting them in her basket with steely dedication.

 

When all was said & done she was the champ! She had collected 18 eggs - 5 more than 2nd place. 

 She picked a a new book for her prize (a girl after my own heart!). Funny story, well I think it's funny - there was a few families that were new this year (that I didn't recognize from last year) that were UBER competitive, one of them was in the under 2 group and was quite disappointed that their boy got beat "and by a girl" - needless to say I took just as much pleasure (yea I know I shouldn't have but they were being so rude) in knowing it was MY GIRL that beat them - so there!

 

 

 

 

We didn't get to see Abbie & Nate hunt much since we were with the little girls, but they both were in the mid to top of their groups and were happy with their prize choices. It was a FANTASTIC day!

When we were done with the hunt we made a pit stop at Baton practice (Abbie is taking Baton and they are getting ready for the summer parades - so we have extra practices right now - I'm so glad that I have extra things to do, I was getting bored - ok maybe not, but I am glad that we are able to give our children these kind of opportunities), then it was off to see the Easter Bunny.

 This ended up being the best picture of the bunch.

 Our soon to be class clown breaks out her "silly face".

 Giggles all around - Maddie's not so sure it's all that funny.

We also crammed in a family picture shoot that if the pictures come back half as good as I hope I will be ecstatic. We will have to wait to see on those.

And lastly a few pictures and 1 video from our own Easter Egg Hunt at home this morning.

 

 

 

I am grateful for BEAUTIFUL day yesterday - we needed it!!! The warm sunshine recharged all of our batteries & made our fun day as a family just that much better!