Goin' Huntin'

After a pitiful egg hunt at the farm, we decided to go home and let Lily hunt her eggs on Saturday. Let's just say I think the whole "hiding eggs" was WAY more eventful for David and I than it was for Lily. So here's the story....


David wanted to help me hide Lily's eggs and gifts, which was fine with me. So I said, well let's run outside and hide them really quick while Lily is watching tv inside. We went out and pulled the sliding door to, and went to hide the eggs. After we were done, we went back to the door to get Lily. I tried to pull on the door and Lily had come over and locked the screen door!!!! To make matters worse, I had grabbed the house keys from David when we got home, so they were laying on the kitchen counter (not in David's pocket, where they would have been otherwise). We were freaking out! We got Lily to come over to the door, and we tried to show her how to unlock it, but all she did was try to pull on the door. Fail. So then David decided he would go to the front door and see if Lily would come to it. (side note: when we come in the house, Lily closes and locks the door - both locks.) David went to the front door, and after knocking and yelling for Lily for a few minutes, she finally walked over to the door. He told her to unlock the door, she had trouble with the doorknob lock, but thankfully she unlocked the deadbolt! David with the help of a credit card, got into the bottom lock and into the house! (note - we need better locks!) As soon as he got in the house, he let me in, and then we taught Lily how to unlock the screen door. (Now she is a pro at it, and is usually in charge of letting the dog out!)


Now that our crazy side story is over, it's now time for the hunt! We were so excited she knew exactly what to do! We didn't just put them all over the grass, we tried to make her work a bit, even though we helped point some of them out! Here is the photo diary of her hunt below!

she stopped for a basketball break, and was upset something was in the net!

she got rid of the blockage

dunk!

now back to hunting (with the ball)

she found her Plex bath squirter - she loves him!

taking a break with Plex

holding her Gabba friends while she hunts for the rest of her eggs

look ma!

holding all 5 gabba friends is very hard, but she loves it!

lining them up!

admiring her work

she found Elmo!

coloring with her chalk

playing with her puppet!

she has a lot in her basket!

she LOVES Brobee!

After the egg hunt, we grilled hot dogs outside, and had an early dinner. It was so nice to sit outside on our back patio and enjoy the wonderful weather we were having. I certainly do not miss humidity! After we cleaned up from dinner we decided to dye eggs. This was quite an experience. Lily loved sticking her hand right in the dye, which made quite a mess, but thankfully it cam out with a bath! Here's some pictures of us dyeing eggs.

The finished product complete with a topless Lily and her swamp hand :)