The Thrill of the Hunt

We took the boys to an Easter Egg hunt this morning at the Sam Davis House. (samdavishome.org) It was the first organized egg hunt they've done. After some pre-game tips from Big Daddy, it was interesting to observe their "strategies" to gather the eggs.

When they rang the bell, Henry immediately BOLTED to the far end of the roped off area. We're talking a flat out sprint. He stopped randomly to pick an egg up, but I didn't really see what he was getting until I got closer and looked in his bucket. Every single egg he got was blue! He would deliberately pass by other eggs to get to a blue one. He even tried to take a blue egg out of a little girls basket!

David for some reason was overwhelmed and only got like 6 eggs. He stayed pretty much right where we were waiting to start. I was really disappointed at the behavior of a lot of the parents there. The egg hunt our boys were in was for 0-3 years old. I would say probably half of the parents were crazy grabbing all the eggs they could and stuffing them into their child's basket. HELLO! It's for CHILDREN to do, not parents. I suspect that might have had something to do with David's apprehension -- he thought he was hunting eggs with kids, not 40 year olds. Regardless, D&H had fun, and everyone got the same amount of candy. The eggs were taken to the "prize station" and were traded for a scoop of candy.