This afternoon Simeon, Ana and I attended the MOMs Club Annual Easter Egg hunt. I had been watching the sky all day, praying it wouldn’t rain so Ana could go and hunt for Easter Eggs with the big kids. Its was particularly important that we attend the event because Simeon really wanted to be there to watch Ana “hunt” for the first time (last year the most we got out of her was propping her up next to the Easter basket). He is going to be traveling next week and unfortunately his flight leaves on Easter. He will be able to spend the morning with us, but the big family egg hunt is later in the afternoon so he would have to miss it. Not wanting to miss such an occassion, he decided to leave work a little early and meet us for the hunt. So you can imagine I was getting a little nervous when it started hailing this afternoon. Luckily the rain stopped long enough that we were able to sprinkle the park with eggs and let the kiddo run around collecting treasures to fill their baskets.

Ana sat back at first to watch the other kids run off into the distance and she was happy to slowly sneak up on the first egg she found.

Apparently collecting eggs is something kids are just born knowing what to do because she leaned over and picked it up without needing any prompting.

She was so excited to have found an egg! In the grass! That she would have been perfectly happy to stop at one, but the hunt was divided up so each child got eight eggs so I encouraged Ana to keep looking for more.

We finally found all her alloted eggs and went back to the car to sort out her findings, just as the sky opened up and started pouring down rain. Sim and I huddled under my tailgate (is that even what you call it? That sounds wrong.) to let Ana pick a candy to eat. Unfortunately she hasn’t ever had to deal with wrappers up to this point, so we had to take the candy out of her mouth so she could enjoy it the way it was intended. Ahhh, well. We can work on wrappers later.

All in all, we had a great time. It was the perfect first hunt and Ana did it like a pro. You can see all the pictures here. Enjoy!

P.S. Ha ha, Chloe! I beat ya!