Mar 25 2008
Basket Hunt
The kids searched for their baskets Easter morning. Gabe had told me that he wanted his basket to be harder to find than Josiahs. I took him at his word. In previous years I had taken great pains to make Josiah’s basket hunt difficult, but last year I went too far. I hid it in a bean bag. The mess that resulted convinced me that I needed to exercise a little prudence in my basket hiding. Zeke found his basket in under a minute, promptly opened up his chocolate bunny and ate the ears. It took Josiah 30 minutes to find his basket. I hid it at the other end of the room and hoped it would take him longer knowing he would methodically check everything on the way. Abby took 45 minutes to find her basket which was hidden quite easily. As she and Gabe were looking on the shelves, one of them knocked Dale’s motorcycle bag onto the floor. Neither bothered to check it and they spent thirty minutes walking around it. I finally had to give her a significant hint to help her find a basket that she had been tripping over. I don’t think Gabe would have ever found his if I hadn’t given him multiple hints. It was in a camping bag inside a box with an old prom dress underneath stacks of Christmas decorations. He searched for 50 minutes before he uncovered it. Gabe had asked to hide my basket this year since Dale wasn’t here to hide it. I found it without looking. I had tied up the bag of rubbish, but had not taken it out. In the morning, I remembered that I needed to take it out and lifted it up to discover my Easter basket underneath. He hid my Easter basket in the garbage can. This will be the last year Gabe is allowed to hide my basket. He needs to learn some prudence in basket hiding.
I had a hard time finding my Easter basket. But I think that’s because I ate almost all of my candy already!
Since your Easter Basket was a USPS flat rate box full of Easter candy that Sarah conveniently placed on your desk when it arrived a few weeks back, I imagine it wasn’t too hard to find. I’m just surprised you saved your chocolate bunny until Easter. While I was gone to an eye exam today, and his siblings were not paying attention, Zeke decided to eat the head and body of his Easter Bunny. They caught him before he could finish the feet. When Abby caught him, Zeke told her, “I just love the chocolate!”
I’m with Zeke .. just gotta love the chocolate!