Today was filled with "adventure" for my babies from first thing in the morning, waking up to their Easter baskets outside their bedroom door and egg hunts in bare feet on the cold, hard ground of my parent's backyard in the Alabama spring time to fulfilling several items on my oldest son's bucket list, it was a busy, busy day! My mom was a bit surprised, I think, by how excited the boys got about our "week early" Easter morning celebration. She commented, "It's like Christmas," and it was. Even though their Easter baskets were mostly candy with a small, inexpensive toy and a book about Easter to go with each basket, they love waking up to the surprise of something waiting for them outside their door, and they LOVE to hunt eggs outside! The last few years, our egg hunts have taken place at my fiance's beach shack, usually after a night of camping out beforehand, so we were not prepared for how cold it would be outside in our bare feet for egg hunting this morning. Even though we were limited to only one egg hunt due today due to the chill in the air, it was still just as exciting with repeated searches for the one lost "hard to find" egg (these are eggs I bought which look like rocks, trees, and grass because my oldest is getting quite good at hunting, so I wanted to make it more challenging, but it turned out to be a bit too challenging for mom, the egg hider) and warming our feet by the "gas" fire (which the boys love to "turn on" whether they are chilled or not). I had forgotten, I suppose, how cold the weather can still be in the Alabama spring time. The ground felt almost frozen. My son said, "My feet are burning" after hopping around looking for eggs for several minutes. Because of this, they didn't ask to hide and hunt again as they usually do every year because it was simply too chilly.
After a morning of sugar highs and running around the back yard barefoot, we headed out to an afternoon movie. "Rango" was the selection of the day. After that, we ate at IHOP, then drove to a local park to let the kid's run out their energy. Upon arriving in the parking lot, we heard the tinkling musical sounds of an ice cream truck. Because his little brother had gotten ice cream from the ice cream truck before big brother and I arrived in the states this trip, my oldest had been begging to get ice cream from an ice cream truck, so even though we just ate, Grampa indulged them. As he wandered toward the park with his "push pop," my son said, "Yea, ice cream truck, check. Five Guys Burgers and Fries last night, check! I'm getting to do all the things I wanted to do." I laughed and told my mom, "that's his bucket list." Maybe our bucket list should be more like the kids'. 1. Get ice cream from an ice cream truck. 2. Go to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for dinner. 3. Eat a cheese omelet and have hot chocolate at IHOP. 4. Play tennis with Grampa. 5. Get a Nerf Dart gun. Hmmmm...if I was thinking like a kid, what would my bucket list be? 1. Visit zoos and aquariums every chance I get. 2. Get a dog. 3. Get the largest bubble wand I can find and blow bubbles with it. 4. Go to my favorite Mexican
restaurant and eat all the chips and white Queso dip I can stomach. 5. Buy several new books and spend all weekend reading. Well, that doesn't sound too bad, and the thing about a kid's bucket list is that they are usually all very realistic and doable! :) I'll get right on fulfilling that list as soon as possible! What would your bucket list be if you were thinking like a kid?
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