We’ve been really terrible about keeping up this site lately. We have too many great photos to share to skip to the present date though, so there will be a few catch-up posts over the next little bit to get us back to semi-realtime.

Maya Hunting for Eggs

Last Easter, Maya really couldn’t do much but be propped up and posed with some of the goodies her grandparents sent her. This year since she’s mobile and likes to be outside, we set up a very small egg hunt for her in our front yard.

Three things, two hands

If any of you have watched her play in the yard the past few months, you know that Maya often suffers from the “three things, two hands” problem. She’ll have a rock in one hand and a stick in the other and come across a very tempting acorn (or a leaf or a dead bug or another rock). You can clearly see the indecision on her face. The solution is to put one thing down and pick the new thing up and decide if it’s better. If not, she swaps back. If so, she moves on to the next decision point.

So went the Easter egg hunt.

Chocolate!

Maya was very excited about all the brightly colored eggs in the yard and went barreling after them right away. After getting one in each hand, she just kept finding new eggs and exchanging them for the ones she already had. She could have hunted the eggs indefinitely. I tried to convince her to put them in her basket, but that wasn’t something she was really interested in doing.

Inspecting the haul

The game got even more complex once we showed her there were things inside the eggs. Soon we had candy and opened eggs scattered all over the yard. Luckily, once she realized that what was inside the wrapper was chocolate, the hunting slowed down and she settled in to see how much candy we were going to let her get by with eating.