This morning we went to
Midwest Twisters in Hartland. This was Isabel's first Easter Egg Hunt and I have to say that I was very impressed. It was well organized and executed. When we got there, they had us fill out a raffle ticket and then the kids just had to wait for a little bit for them to give the instructions. We were there for the walking-age 4 egg hunt. There was one for older kids later on. It was great that it was just younger kids there, so they weren't getting run over by the older ones. They had eggs with candy in all over the gym in plain sight and they also had older kids (gymnasts from there, I presume) going around and putting out more. The kids all got TONS of eggs. Not that Isabel needed that much, but she did have fun.
They got the egg hunt underway before they had the Easter Bunny come out and when he did, they announced it, which is great so parents can prepare their kids and they don't get scared. Isabelwas the second kid to run over to the Easter Bunny. I wasn't sure how she was going to do with EB since she was so scared of Santa in-person. But when she saw him she started pointing and yelling, "Bun! Bun! Bun!" and then went over and gave him a hug and offered him a balloon.
After all the hunt was over they had the drawing, which EB picked out names. It all went very smoothly and very efficiently. It is very important to be organized with a bunch of toddlers that can't keep their attention on any one thing for very long. I definitly recommend this Easter Egg hunt to anyone. We will plan to go back next year.
They also had a lot of helium balloons that had postcards and pencils about the business attached to the string. Isabel loves ballons, so this was great for her. She was collecting as many as she cold. But of course, when we left we didn't take all 9-10 that she had gathered and given to daddy. We just took a couple and she didn't notice the difference and has had a great time playing with them at home.
Now, it was all fun & games until we left and she started to go crazy for the candy. That part was not fun. She ate quite a bit and I managed to get the rest away and hide it. Daddy will take the stuff I don't want her to have to work and put out at his desk.
This evening we went to try out a new church our friends recommended to us. It is a non-demoninational Christian church and that is what we are looking for. It was nice. I was really impressed with the childcare/church school program they had there. Isabel seemed to really enjoy it. She got to color and have a snack and play with bubbles & play-doh. We do plan to go back again and we liked it for ourselves as well. We did see our friends there and were able to sit next to them during th service and Isabel was in the classroom with their son.
Well, we weren't expecting to meet the Easter Bunny on Saturday, but there it was at the grocery store when we went. When we were there in the morning I just had Isabel with me. But since Henry was resistant to napping I decided he would get to go meet the Easter bunny to and we came back, of course Isabel wanted to come along again.
This is one of her Easter surprises, although she was begging so much to know what I was working on, so I finished it that night and gave it to her Saturday morning. She doesn't know about the Rose Petal Tutu I made her too. Anyways, the pillowcase dress seemed to flouncy around the middle, not really flattering at all. So, I made a tie belt out of the same fabric which makes it look so much cuter. It is cinched around the waist and gives it pleasing pleasts on the top. I used the pattern for this dress from here, but had to adpat it to her measurements since she is wearing a size 5 right now.
