Those of you with boys or who have raised boys will relate to the pictures I've posted today...mud puddles, throwing paper at each other, making messes and.....shooting guns. Drew is aiming the dart gun, shooting it at the ceiling and you can see the dart deflecting off of the ceiling and falling in the background behind him. He's learning early!
So, it was windy and COLD on the Friday night before Easter. SHEC (South Hills Evangelical Church) was smart to put on a community Easter egg hunt inside of their gym. Not so smart to use millions of scraps of shredded paper to fill their floor 1 foot deep to hide eggs for the kids. I bet that was fun to clean up. They transformed their gym into an easter basket (walls covered in paper painted like basket weave, a big handle with a ribbon hanging overhead, and basket filler on the floor of the lifesize basket.) We were the last in line so the pickings were slim. They had 400-500 children come through their "basket" that night. The kids had fun in the hunt and found other things to do to entertain themselves!
Mud puddles, snails, and puppy dog tails....that's what little boys are made of! As a family, we walked out the door of SHEC's indoor Easter egg hunt into the parking lot. What seemed like an ordinary parking lot to an average adult was a wonderful lot of adventure and mud to a 2 year old boy! He spotted the puddle...I saw the look in his eye...I said, "Drew..." and without a moment's hesitation, away he went...right into the puddle! Nice white shoes gone muddy...a perfect ending to a young boy's day!
