Easter Egg Hunt - Act I

Today we went to an Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by our homeowners' association. I particularly enjoyed this event because for the first two years we lived here, I would see the announcement and think, "Next year, we'll get to take our baby." It was a beautiful sunny day. The hunt was held on the grounds of a private school nearby. Our HOA's social director had very nicely separated the children into two groups. School-age children had to hunt through shrubs and fences and such, while the preschoolers merely had to run to the far end of the soccer field where the eggs were lying there in plain view. It took us a little while to get Mia interested in the eggs, because she had just learned how to drink bottled water straight from the bottle. She was quite thrilled about that. I'm calling this Act I because there is an Easter Egg Hunt at our church next Saturday. Stay tuned.
Here is the other interesting news from this weekend. Mia was really clingy and showed an appropriate level of "stranger fear." This is new and quite welcomed by her parents. When I attempted to drop her off at the church nursery today, she cried a lot. It didn't help that there were lots more kids there than usual (it being Palm Sunday), and at any given moment at least two of them were crying hard. Mia shows a lot of empathy, so that tends to make her cry. I had to sit down and rock her for 15-20 minutes before she showed any interest in playing. She so seldom lets me hold her for any length of time, I didn't even think of rushing her.