Up, up, up

So I'm trying to stay positive and up, and it's not really working. But who wants to read a blog post from a Negative Nelly? This might be bland and dry, because I'm sticking to the facts of the day and not really going off on my usual tangents.

We went to a egg hunt that my dad's wife's old playgroup put on. It was just at a neighborhood park, not unlike the one that's by my house. But my neighborhood certainly doesn't have this in the middle of it:


We tried to get a pic of all the kids together, but that wasn't happening. So I had to take individual ones. By the time I got to Miss S, her face was covered in green frosting from her cupcake. So I threw the pic through Photoshop and got this:


No more frosting! Not bad. I'm learning.

Mini-Minion has a lot to learn about egg hunts. First of all, she's still completely uninterested in most other kids. She likes her cousins back at home, and that's pretty much so it. The cousin closest in age to her is basically the only child she has taken much of an interest in other than Mr. A obviously. So she mostly did her own thing.

Second of all, she doesn't get the concept of putting eggs in her basket. She kept throwing them BACK into the bushes. Mr. A had to keep giving her his eggs (well, not KEEP giving them, because she wasn't asking), and she would cart them around for a little bit. In the end, I think she ended up with one. I think.

(Mini-Minion and her discarded eggs)

Mr. A was very popular today, as usual. He's a pretty good sport about younger kids. He ended up pulling the little ones around in a wagon toward the end of the day.


On the way home, Mini-Minon threw a fit for a million different little reasons until her savior (Mr. A) came to the rescue. No, she's not really pulling his hair. It's a game they play.


And at the very end of the day, I didn't eat dinner until 10PM, Mini-Minion and Mr. A fought me on bedtime for two hours, I'm down 7 posts at work, I'm dead tired from getting up at six, working, dealing with the kids, going to sleep after midnight, and starting all over again, and I'm starting to just not care anymore. But as I was uploading my pictures, I saw this, and it made things a little better.

(During their 5-minute game of "I love yooooooou.")

So much for no tangents.