It's quite insane...it clogs my drain: 3/29/09

Milo's first official Easter egg hunt

Corey found out about the Easter egg hunt that's held in our local park yesterday when he picked Milo up from preschool. The hunt was this afternoon at 1pm. Milo and I go to the park all the time to play on the playground, and we've never seen so many kids there at once! Milo had a pretty good time, especially because he got to see his friend Christian from school. I was a pinch disappointed at how quickly it was all over. I think it took 20 seconds for the kids to find all the eggs. It took longer for us to collect Milo's prize, which was a small chocolate bunny with those scary yellow eyes.

The Easter egg hunting field. The eggs were scattered far and wide over the fields. The fields were divided by age group, which was really great. It kept too many kids from being in one place at the same time, and also kept them from fighting over the eggs.

Milo and Christian chatting it up before the big hunt.

The Easter Bunny came by to say hi. Milo was completely freaked out by the walking talking rabbit, until I told him that it was just a girl in a costume. Then he was cool and gave her a high five.

And they're off!

Milo looking all dejected because he only found six eggs. He perked up a bit when I told him there was candy in each one.

The big prize! If I were Milo, I'd be more afraid of this rabbit. I do NOT understand why chocolate bunny makers insist on giving them those horrible boob-like eyes!!

The biggest surprise: A baby lamb came to visit! This little lamb is only three weeks old. The woman was walking her on a leash, along the outside edge of the park. I couldn't believe that the only kids that noticed the lamb were Milo and Christian. The lady was nice enough to let them bottle feed the lamb, and pet her a little bit. That is really cool, and a much better symbol of Easter than fluorescent colored plastic eggs. In my opinion, anyways.

Stormy weather

Friday was a weirdly stormy day. A quick moving storm passed through right after I got home from work that afternoon. Between the angle of the sun, and the wind, the clouds were doing some pretty nifty things. I'm normally not into taking pictures of the clouds, but these were too interesting to resist.

Odd blue clouds! They were such a pretty color of blue; we've never seen anything like that before.

Creepy white cloud in the midst of black clouds. Talk about standing out in the crowd!

The tail end of the big storm cloud. All neat and roiled up looking!

I just like this picture because of the glow of the sun in the corner....it sort of looks like the sky is on fire.

Awesome projects!

Milo's lesson this week at preschool was about recycling, and how you can use old stuff to make new stuff. When I got home from work on Thursday, SpongeBob RectanglePants was waiting for me on the kitchen table, along with this rocket. The high school kids all brought in assorted "junk" and Milo came up with these ideas on his own. I love how he named the rocket the Mighty Explorer. No, he didn't write that on there himself, one of the big kids did that for him. Pretty creative, huh?

The Best Birthday Party EVER!

This year we made a monumental decision about Milo's birthday and decided to throw him his first all-friends party. We had it the weekend after his 4th birthday, and it was a total success. Good times were had by all: kids and moms and dads alike! We made our own party hats, had an egg hunt, had a "can you keep your egg on the spoon?" race, and a "who can roll their egg the farthest with a spoon?" race. We also played stick the s on Superman and of course, had cake and ice cream!

Milo and I spent the afternoon before his party decorating our hearts out. I used the air compressor to blow up the balloons. That was good fun for me, except I was a bit overzealous at first as to the amount of air I put in the balloons. I blew four balloons to smithereens before I figured out how to control the nozzle better. All in all, I think I blew up 30 balloons, and then we festooned the house with them. A little too much balloonage, in my opinion, but Milo loved it, and it was his party, after all. The theme was Wall-E, so we had the appropiate decorations for that, and the cake was a Wall-E cake. In the end, Milo said it was the best birthday party EVER. Yep, we thought so too!