Easter Egg Hunt

Arden has been fascinated with collecting things around the house and particularly the rocks in the driveway lately, so I figured this was probably the best year to go to an Easter Egg hunt. Raleigh Parks & Rec holds them all over the Raleigh area so we chose the closest to our house. I even succumbed to being the girlie mom that I thought I'd never be and bought her a pretty flowery spring dress for the occasion. Mom (Noani) got her a Easter "bucket"- we figured that would be better since that's what she used to collecting things in and all the baskets looked too shallow to hold anything. We got to Shelley Lake early and went down to visit with the ducks first. Then back up to the community center for the hunt. The areas were sectioned off by age, Arden falling into the 0-3 year old group, which seemed to be the largest group. Apparently this was not an original idea. The only thing that was missing was the horn at the start of the hunt and all the kids went toddling into the roped off area with the not so hidden eggs. Arden was so mesmerized by all the kids running by that it took her a few beats (and some not so subtle help from Mom & Dad) to remember that we were hunting for eggs. And within less then two minutes all the eggs were gone. She got a whopping 2 eggs and then another one that one of the volunteers gave her. Of course she's one so she didn't know any different, which was great. Too many kids, too little eggs, but still a happy outing for Arden. Now I see why families do hunts in their own backyards ;-)