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celticdragonfly) wrote2006-04-08 11:07 am
celticdragonfly) wrote2006-04-08 11:07 am
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Saginaw Easter Egg hunt
Today was the Saginaw Easter Egg hunt, run by the local fire department, down at Willow Creek park, which is very close to us. I figured Maggie would enjoy it, but Jamie would be too young. So this morning we got ready, got her basket out, tied up our hair against the wind (it's blowing hard, if not as hard as yesterday), and headed out the front door. We planned to walk to it. We walked partway, then a lady with two kids in a minivan offered us a lift. We were running a bit behind, so I accepted. Just as well - it wasn't halfway down the park at the gazebo as I'd thought, but allllll the way at the far end of the park - we wouldn't have made it in time.
So we see a crowd of parents and kids distributed around a big rectangle of grass, marked off by cones, with little oval wrapped marshmallow eggs strewn across it. Oookay. So, not so much on the "hunt" part of things. Okay. I walked around the long way to the far side, so it wasn't so crowded, and we waited. One of the firemen came by to make sure everyone knew about the prizes - we didn't, and I asked. He said some of the eggs had stickers, and those got prizes, so just check your eggs afterwards.
A lot of the kids were being impatient and shouting and such. I'd told Maggie we had to wait our turn, and she was very patient about it, no problem at all.
Time came, they started us. Most kids were running all the way into the center. Maggie just went forward and started gathering eggs as she came to them. It did not take long at all for all of the eggs to be gone. Maggie was quite calm about it all, a very good girl. I congratulated her on her basketful of eggs, and we sat down to go through them, I had her naming all the colors. We found one with a sticker, and went towards the firetrucks to wait in line for her prize. It was then, when a mother asked about "was this the line for the 4-6?", that I found out that oh, beyond the firetrucks where I couldn't see, there had been two other groups - one for 0-3, one for 7-10. Well, Maggie is almost 4, probably best that I had her there. Her prize was a "Super Soaker Mt. Tikisoki Water Volcano", the type of thing you hook up to the hose in the backyard in the summer. She and Jamie should have fun with that.
She got to pet a daschund. She got to see the firetrucks, and ring the bell in front. I suggested she should tell the firemen "thank you for the Easter egg hunt". So she did - went up to one by himself, and then to a group of 3 over by the prize table. Both cases got widened eyes, a grin, and a fireman bending down to shake her hand.
Then we started walking home. Had a nice walk, did some impromptu lessons on the way - pointing out the eight-sided gazebo and talking about "octagon", pointing out a water bird, etc. Finally decided the wind was just too much, and had Karl come pick us up, but we walked more than half the way. She's been allowed to eat one of the eggs. I'm suggesting she may want to take them to Sunday school to share them - I suspect that many marshmallow eggs is way more than any small kid should eat!
So we see a crowd of parents and kids distributed around a big rectangle of grass, marked off by cones, with little oval wrapped marshmallow eggs strewn across it. Oookay. So, not so much on the "hunt" part of things. Okay. I walked around the long way to the far side, so it wasn't so crowded, and we waited. One of the firemen came by to make sure everyone knew about the prizes - we didn't, and I asked. He said some of the eggs had stickers, and those got prizes, so just check your eggs afterwards.
A lot of the kids were being impatient and shouting and such. I'd told Maggie we had to wait our turn, and she was very patient about it, no problem at all.
Time came, they started us. Most kids were running all the way into the center. Maggie just went forward and started gathering eggs as she came to them. It did not take long at all for all of the eggs to be gone. Maggie was quite calm about it all, a very good girl. I congratulated her on her basketful of eggs, and we sat down to go through them, I had her naming all the colors. We found one with a sticker, and went towards the firetrucks to wait in line for her prize. It was then, when a mother asked about "was this the line for the 4-6?", that I found out that oh, beyond the firetrucks where I couldn't see, there had been two other groups - one for 0-3, one for 7-10. Well, Maggie is almost 4, probably best that I had her there. Her prize was a "Super Soaker Mt. Tikisoki Water Volcano", the type of thing you hook up to the hose in the backyard in the summer. She and Jamie should have fun with that.
She got to pet a daschund. She got to see the firetrucks, and ring the bell in front. I suggested she should tell the firemen "thank you for the Easter egg hunt". So she did - went up to one by himself, and then to a group of 3 over by the prize table. Both cases got widened eyes, a grin, and a fireman bending down to shake her hand.
Then we started walking home. Had a nice walk, did some impromptu lessons on the way - pointing out the eight-sided gazebo and talking about "octagon", pointing out a water bird, etc. Finally decided the wind was just too much, and had Karl come pick us up, but we walked more than half the way. She's been allowed to eat one of the eggs. I'm suggesting she may want to take them to Sunday school to share them - I suspect that many marshmallow eggs is way more than any small kid should eat!
What a day!