Owen had the 1st Easter party in his life today - he semi-enjoyed it as he cried through some portions of it.

His class had a series of activities for the celebration: a parade around the classrooms to say “Happy Easter!” and to show off their beautiful/cute self-made springtime hats, followed by a Easter egg hunt in the playground and finally, snacks.  By the time I got there, all the kids already had their pretty hats on…not sure why, but Owen started crying soon after he saw me.  When the teachers asked the kids to line up, he started tugging me to take him home…as the parade progressed, he would cry on and off.  It finally hit me that perhaps he thought he was going to another classroom and was afraid. 

Luckily, as soon as we returned to the classroom, the teachers did not waste any time leading right into the egg hunt, so Owen charged toward the playground as soon as he saw the eggs (we had practice last Sat on a much grander scale at our town’s egg hunt ;P so he knew what was going on.  He was doing great, picking up eggs with great speed until he came across a purple glitter egg that popped open…I asked him to pick it up and initially he didn’t want (prob figured it was a “bad” egg so he didn’t want it) but at my urging, he ultimately did.  I wished I hadn’t though…because he then spent the next 30 seconds or so fussing at the egg, turning it this way and that - guess he wanted to put it back together.  I repeatedly asked him to put it in the basket and to pick up more eggs but he was oblivious to me….after a couple of tries, he finally put the egg into his basket and started looking for other eggs.  Of course, in the 30 seconds or so he spent staring at the purple egg, most of the eggs were gone so he did not end up with that many, but he was happy, and that was all that matters.

Once we got back to the classroom, the kids had tons of food - it was so fun watching them eat and have crumbs/cakes all over their face and hands.  All of them - including Owen - seemed to be starving and stuffed down the snacks and juice…overall, Owen still did enjoy his 1st Easter party so it was a huge success!