Easter

Geddy, being the brave boy that he is, decided he wanted to try the Payson City Egg Scramble again. We did it last when he was three. Click here to see that entry. He was in a field of 4-6 year-olds this time.  He had a strategy and he got quite a lot. Luckily this time, the parents let the kids fend for themselves - most of the time.

He even got an egg with a paper saying he won an Easter basket. So after taking about 1 minute to clear the field, 5 minutes to open all the eggs so we could return them empty to reuse next year, we then waited in line for about 20 minutes to get this. Of course, by the time we got there they had ran out of the ones designated for his age group, so they have him one marked as 2-4 years old. He was fine with that as this one had a mini bubble gum machine, colored pencils, coloring book and a pinwheel, along with lots of candy.

Then we went to Payson Market for their re-vamped Easter celebration. See the above linked post for the chaos of the last one we went to. This year they had the kids color a picture the two weeks prior to Easter and bring it back to the store. The Saturday before Easter we went back and had to find his picture hidden somewhere in the store and then take it to customer service where they gave him a very large bag of candy - good stuff, not just taffy and dum dums. Then we waited in line to get his picture taken with the Easter Bunny and the very generous furry guy gave him a Cadbury egg.

Easter morning...he actually woke up earlier for this than Christmas! I tried making him wait for Scott to wake up, but that didn't happen. Geddy found a basket full of goodies. We hadn't had a chance to decorate eggs so I told Geddy I went to Wal-Mart and got a few small toys (roundish in shape) that the Easter Bunny could hide for him. The awesome creature that he is, he also brought his own eggs full of gummy worms and money.

He got one of those silly faces with metal shavings inside where you use a magnet wand to drag the stuff around to make him look hairy....I have no idea what they are called.

The Easter Bunny made Geddy search high and low for eggs by putting one on the flipper in the basketball hoop.

And oh lovely Easter Bunny, a water gun! Seriously though, it is a great one because it is really easy to fill up. None of that little thingy you have to hold out of the way while you slowly stream water in. This one you just pull the small yellow tank off the back, fill it up and plug it back in. Brilliant!