Real talk, our ridiculous child is wearing 12-18m clothes at 6m. Canadians! Or maybe Americans! I summon thee! Can anyone tell me where I can get some kids footie pyjamas with snaps in that size? Preferably online?
Carter’s snaps footies are great, but for some reason they stop at 9m sizes.
That was our kid. Until she hit 4 she was always the biggest kid in her age group. Pretty sure we just switched her to zippers. Which was for the best because snaps are awful.
Real talk, our ridiculous child is wearing 12-18m clothes at 6m. Canadians! Or maybe Americans! I summon thee! Can anyone tell me where I can get some kids footie pyjamas with snaps in that size? Preferably online?
Carter’s snaps footies are great, but for some reason they stop at 9m sizes.
That was our kid. Until she hit 4 she was always the biggest kid in her age group. Pretty sure we just switched her to zippers. Which was for the best because snaps are awful.
I find snaps super useful if I want to open up pajamas, open up a diaper, and discover a diaper is full of poop. Because then I just de-diaper. With zips I then have to zip my child back up into a poo-sausage, so I can *unzip* them at the bottom.
Real talk, our ridiculous child is wearing 12-18m clothes at 6m. Canadians! Or maybe Americans! I summon thee! Can anyone tell me where I can get some kids footie pyjamas with snaps in that size? Preferably online?
Carter’s snaps footies are great, but for some reason they stop at 9m sizes.
I always found Carter’s sizing to be pretty small with my giant babies.
Pekkle brand from Costco is good. Joe Fresh from super store may work, and also old navy. PK Beans is a nice Canadian brand with high quality stuff.
Real talk, our ridiculous child is wearing 12-18m clothes at 6m. Canadians! Or maybe Americans! I summon thee! Can anyone tell me where I can get some kids footie pyjamas with snaps in that size? Preferably online?
Carter’s snaps footies are great, but for some reason they stop at 9m sizes.
I always found Carter’s sizing to be pretty small with my giant babies.
Pekkle brand from Costco is good. Joe Fresh from super store may work, and also old navy. PK Beans is a nice Canadian brand with high quality stuff.
Is there a reason you want snaps instead of zips?
See above, but basically, snaps have saved me a couple of times from an infant covered in poo. They also seem to be wider in the leg, generally? We got a couple of 12m zips from Carter’s, and getting his legs into the leg holes, especially on the side the zip didn’t open, was a struggle - possibly because he has podgy legs, but there we are.
ETA: I tried putting him into some 12m Carter’s zip ups, and it did not go well. I guess they’re designed for slightly longer, skinnier babies. Getting his arms in the sleeves really was like stuffing a sausage, and I literally could not get his feet in the legs at all.
Realising what I like about snaps is that they’re easy to put on...
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He then woke up at 2am and 3am, the latter time having me unable to get him back to sleep. So, we've both been up since 3am. Today was rough to say the least.
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NYC opened schools in the fall when a lot of major school districts did not. They made a lot of rules to make the teachers feel safe, and there was almost no guidance so they made some good rules, made some rules that later made no sense, and did what they could. This was good for me, since my kids.. did not do well when schools closed last year. My work closed last March, but opened over the summer, so it was either take a lot of time off or have them go to school. My son has a special education teacher, and now gets Occupation Therapy which do not work on Zoom. I tried. Every time the schools close I try. I am just happy I can get him to do the bare minimum, and he is not doing well. My daughter does OK in remote classes, but needs a lot more oversight than we can give while working and taking care of my son.
One of the rules that makes no sense is the two-case rule. Regardless of the size of the building, regardless of the number of students, regardless of.. well, anything, if a building has two cases of covid, it closes. Well, not exactly- two unrelated case. So if it can be shown that there was somehow spread in the school, then the building would remain open. Yep.
Some schools are co-located- my daughter's school building has grades 2nd-12th for her school, and there is another middle school 6-8 located in the same building. If one high-schooler from her school, and one middle-schooler from the other school in her building test positive, the whole building is closed for ten days.
And it's like I'm taking crazy pills with how much people are clinging to this rule. Look, NYC is going to keep closing classrooms for cases in the classroom. They are going to regularly test students. Teachers have had access to the vaccine since January (That's when I qualified, too. I was able to easily secure an appointment, and my MIL waited half a week and was able to secure a weekend appointment). Students can opt-in to fully remote at any time. And people are acting like getting rid of the two-case rule would mean that NYC is just throwing caution into the wind, and wants to get rid of all precautions.
I get that we are lucky that our schools opened at all. But when they keep getting sent home for a rule that doesn't keep anybody safe, I just get frustrated. This week is Spring Break. We were going to keep the kids home. But their school closed the weeks before, they lost their structure from school, and we got behind at work. So we signed them up for Spring Break camp near my work. And guess what! That widened their bubble, and they are exposed to new people that they wouldn't have been to before. I trust that the camp is safe (especially since they can sit together), but it's nonsensical for people to think that if schools are closed, people are just.. staying home? And you can't even plan for it.
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Real talk, our ridiculous child is wearing 12-18m clothes at 6m. Canadians! Or maybe Americans! I summon thee! Can anyone tell me where I can get some kids footie pyjamas with snaps in that size? Preferably online?
Carter’s snaps footies are great, but for some reason they stop at 9m sizes.
I always found Carter’s sizing to be pretty small with my giant babies.
Pekkle brand from Costco is good. Joe Fresh from super store may work, and also old navy. PK Beans is a nice Canadian brand with high quality stuff.
Is there a reason you want snaps instead of zips?
See above, but basically, snaps have saved me a couple of times from an infant covered in poo. They also seem to be wider in the leg, generally? We got a couple of 12m zips from Carter’s, and getting his legs into the leg holes, especially on the side the zip didn’t open, was a struggle - possibly because he has podgy legs, but there we are.
ETA: I tried putting him into some 12m Carter’s zip ups, and it did not go well. I guess they’re designed for slightly longer, skinnier babies. Getting his arms in the sleeves really was like stuffing a sausage, and I literally could not get his feet in the legs at all.
Realising what I like about snaps is that they’re easy to put on...
Huh, I find snaps harder when the baby is wriggly. Ours has started wanting to turn over on the change table, which is exciting
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Someone tell me I'm not crazy. My partner is very upset that the kid might not believe in the Easter Bunny because we didn't properly plan the hiding of the chocolate eggs. I told her that school doesn't tell him that there's a mythical bunny and there's no parade, meet&greets and whatever else we have fabricated to make kids believe in Santa (or Sinterklaas if you're The Netherlands/Belgium). I kept coming up with more arguments why the kid never did believe in the Easter bunny, but she's still upset. She argued that we might as well skip Christmas if we're this inconsistent and I just got a headache.
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We have a lot of drama because it's the Easter Bunny in the UK but the church bells on France. So Burpette has been screaming all morning because the Easter Bunny doesn't have a well defined time it arrives ("just before lunch" isn't good enough, while "when the church bells ring" is fine)
Child logic is confusing.
If you want to skip the mythology about chocolate delivery methods I don't think anybody should be too bothered. Provided you're not training your kids to scream "the chocolate comes from the shops, that's why Tesco sells eggs!" at other kids.
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Someone tell me I'm not crazy. My partner is very upset that the kid might not believe in the Easter Bunny because we didn't properly plan the hiding of the chocolate eggs. I told her that school doesn't tell him that there's a mythical bunny and there's no parade, meet&greets and whatever else we have fabricated to make kids believe in Santa (or Sinterklaas if you're The Netherlands/Belgium). I kept coming up with more arguments why the kid never did believe in the Easter bunny, but she's still upset. She argued that we might as well skip Christmas if we're this inconsistent and I just got a headache.
Here in the states Easter is basically Christmas 1.5. it's an excuse for a big meal and gift giving and candy.
We hid some eggs after Ripley went to sleep and they led her to her easter basket which was exciting.
Easter is more low-key since people blew a ton of money just four months prior so it kinda scales down things to some candy and a few small toys.
We got my niece two baskets, one from Mommy and Daddy, and one I put together from the Easter Bunny. She also only gets one gift from Santa so she knows that there are in fact people spending time and money on her.
I was never told the Easter Bunny hid the eggs thougn; just filled the basket.
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Easter is more low-key since people blew a ton of money just four months prior so it kinda scales down things to some candy and a few small toys.
We got my niece two baskets, one from Mommy and Daddy, and one I put together from the Easter Bunny. She also only gets one gift from Santa so she knows that there are in fact people spending time and money on her.
I was never told the Easter Bunny hid the eggs thougn; just filled the basket.
Yeah I'm not sure what the actual tradition is. My parents weren't religious so I never had anything to do with what Easter is actually supposed to be about. But, I knew of egg hunts and stuff so I figured I'd just do some riff on that.
I hid one egg on her nightstand and then one at her door and then you could follow the trail downstairs which led her to her basket on the fireplace. It was a lot of fun to watch and she kept flipping out she was so excited.
We got the kids some candy and one of those LED drawing pads and holy shit those things are going to save me a fortune in scratch paper and markers, 10/10 would recommend, especially because they're dirt cheap.
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I'm Jewish, my husband is agnostic.
My kid still understands the Easter bunny as a concept. Even if we never "teach" it. The concept is everywhere in kids cartoons and school and daycare and Christian friends.
I don't teach Santa, and Santa is still known about.
If you live anywhere with a Christian majority or history, the kid will eventually pick up on the "existence" of the mythical creatures.
Another point we learned about Easter is that me and my partner need to fucking communicate about what we buy Ripley. She ended up with way way too much loot.
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Personally @djmitchella's annual Easter hunt eggstravaganzas are just about perfect. Great kids entertainment thematically aligned to the holiday, no bunny myth or religious overtones, just a great family activity everyone looks forward to every year.
Highly recommended reading material if you're looking for Easter inspiration. It doesn't take a lot of money, but it does take time and preparation. I keep meaning to try it myself now the kids are a bit older, but I was too disorganized this year with work and anniversary/birthdays.
My household growing up was reasonably religious, but the bunny stuff was always distinct from the Jesus stuff; they both just happened on the same day.
For us as kids, the Easter basket was always somewhere in the house to find when we woke up Sunday morning. Then after church we’d go to some Aunt/Uncle’s house (or host at our place) have a big late lunch, then half the parents would go out and hide eggs while the other half cleaned up. Kids went out, found eggs, had a great time.
For our kids, we kind of... forgot to prep a basket. But we did the egg hunt in the yard! That kinda counts!
Everything is a phase. But keep in mind that children's preferences in food change wildly every few months. So stuff they love now suddenly taste like horse manure and vice versa. He has to try his food, but it's OK if he really doesn't like the taste or texture of something. Next time you cook it he'll have to try again, though. Sleep is always weird, dunno how far from the equator you are, but the longer days are doing a number on my kid's night time routine. Keep at it, you're doing fine.
Stay strong when they want something other than what you made. You don't want to end up making two meals each night.
I mean, kind of this, but also our three year old definitely still has issues with successfully eating some foods, and so we just automatically make something else cause I don't want to be fishing out mostly chewed hamburger so I can brush her teeth.
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Easter is more low-key since people blew a ton of money just four months prior so it kinda scales down things to some candy and a few small toys
My time working retail electronics opened my eyes to the various degrees some people go to for Easter.
For me, my Easter basket usually had some small-medium toy in it... like whatever Super Soaker was popular that year or something else play-outside related. (Something that wouldn’t have fit for Xmas, because who wants to get a new squirt gun then be told “no you can’t play with it for 4 months”)
As we got older that changed to a movie or cd that we really wanted in our basket. We didn’t buy a lot of movies, so it was a big deal to actually get one to own instead of renting.
At work, I saw parents that seemed to be on the scale of my own (buying maybe a DS/3DS game to add to an Easter basket) and then some that took it way beyond; I had multiple parents across multiple years that did things like “yeah, we got him the wii for Christmas but now his friends play 360, so we’re getting him that for Easter”
I guess the point of this rant is that I feel like I kind of had an internal scale for how “big” of a gift could be under the Xmas tree, but the scale for how “big” an Easter basket can be varied wildly.
We got my daughter a bird feeder that hangs from her bedroom window.
Really hoping this is part of the Easter gift conversation and not the kids food-preference conversation.
. . .gonna get a bird feeder and fill it with broccoli next time my kid is pretending to be a bird. We'll see how this goes.
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So Easter Tuesday is a day off from school here.
Why, I don't know. But it is
This morning my kid has made be breakfast (a cut up peach and a bowl of muesli), done some online learning by herself, been watching videos about measles and the immune system, practicing her numbers 5 and 2, and writing down the weather. Oh and drawing B Cells and antibodies.
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I am legitimately shocked about the gift giving thing for Easter.
We got, some vague talk about the Easter bunny (I stopped believing in Santa when I was like six so the bunny didn’t stand a chance) and Easter eggs. That was it. And thinking about my friends, we saw some people around Easter but I never remembered any gifts other than chocolate being received.
Personally @djmitchella's annual Easter hunt eggstravaganzas are just about perfect. Great kids entertainment thematically aligned to the holiday, no bunny myth or religious overtones, just a great family activity everyone looks forward to every year.
Highly recommended reading material if you're looking for Easter inspiration. It doesn't take a lot of money, but it does take time and preparation. I keep meaning to try it myself now the kids are a bit older, but I was too disorganized this year with work and anniversary/birthdays.
As usual, we took a photo, got it printed out as a jigsaw, and hid the pieces in various places:
Kids solved it:
and the final image is this:
which is the outside tap that our garden hose connects to. So once they'd solved the puzzle and worked out what it was a picture of, they could head out to the tap:
which makes sense once you know that my wife'd been knitting a scarf every week for the year since the first lockdown and yarnbombing a tree in front of our house:
so once the kids had worked out that numbers <-> letters with 1-A..26-Z, the answer was "SHOWER":
In the shower:
was this clue:
which refers to the shed/office that my wife built last summer so she'd have a place to work with the kids at home.
Now, at this point, this type of riddle has traditionally been the end of the hunt.
But this year, betrayal! Someone had made their way into the shed already, eaten some chocolate, kidnapped the baskets, and left a ransom note!
despair and woe!
The note read ('if' at the start seems to have fallen off)
which translated to "walk across these planks set up between milk crates with your wrists tied together":
Once they'd performed the feat of derring-do, they got this mysterious "blank" bit of paper:
which, once held over a candle:
revealed the message "EASTER MINECRAFT" (or at least they worked that out through the soot):
They then launched Minecraft, and opened a minecraft world I'd made containing a much-scaled-down version of the dog park that we most often walk our dog at:
The beacon at the far end was next to a:three distinctive trees at the park, and b:a sign with the next clue:
So, off to the dog park as by this time our dog had _really_ had enough of this easter egg hunt business and wanted to get some exercise. At the park, three trees:
tied to which was a glove (we figured that if we set this up the night before, chances are that nobody would take it, because if you saw a glove in a tree at a park, you'd assume someone else had found it and tied it there for its owner to retrieve):
In the fingertip of the glove was the next clue:
which pointed them to our family photos web site (redacted), and "april santa" refers to the house number of a house around here that always leaves their santa figure up well into the spring of each year. Once we got back home, they could go to that website, and find the (really this time) final clue:
which pointed them to the in-couch storage where blankets (but mostly nerf guns) live, and where their easter baskets were:
Biggest learning this year: It is _really difficult_ to make a crossword. The "crossword makers" online only make really skeletal ones, doing a proper one which is solid enough took a heck of a long time and I only made a tiny one.
You're right -- that said, every so often I do have a go at the glass with scrapers and chemicals and whatnot, but because there's a window facing the front of the oven it never makes it much easier to see in because of glare, so it's not really as rewarding as I want it to be given how annoying a job it is.
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We completely ignore the gender of clothes for our kids, which is admittedly fairly easy when we've got girls
But Ellie is now getting opinions on clothes. So I'm seeing a lot more purple and pink and rainbow
But her school uniform is blue and navy and yellow.
She's much like her mom and we'll wear must any colour. But she seems to avoid reds and greens
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She tends to favor pink when she chooses her own clothes, so I think I figured it out.
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My daughter wants me to get the Spider-Man or Hulk pullups so badly but they're designed for boy parts so grrrrr.
That was our kid. Until she hit 4 she was always the biggest kid in her age group. Pretty sure we just switched her to zippers. Which was for the best because snaps are awful.
I find snaps super useful if I want to open up pajamas, open up a diaper, and discover a diaper is full of poop. Because then I just de-diaper. With zips I then have to zip my child back up into a poo-sausage, so I can *unzip* them at the bottom.
Hence, I like snaps.
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I always found Carter’s sizing to be pretty small with my giant babies.
Pekkle brand from Costco is good. Joe Fresh from super store may work, and also old navy. PK Beans is a nice Canadian brand with high quality stuff.
Is there a reason you want snaps instead of zips?
See above, but basically, snaps have saved me a couple of times from an infant covered in poo. They also seem to be wider in the leg, generally? We got a couple of 12m zips from Carter’s, and getting his legs into the leg holes, especially on the side the zip didn’t open, was a struggle - possibly because he has podgy legs, but there we are.
ETA: I tried putting him into some 12m Carter’s zip ups, and it did not go well. I guess they’re designed for slightly longer, skinnier babies. Getting his arms in the sleeves really was like stuffing a sausage, and I literally could not get his feet in the legs at all.
Realising what I like about snaps is that they’re easy to put on...
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He then woke up at 2am and 3am, the latter time having me unable to get him back to sleep. So, we've both been up since 3am. Today was rough to say the least.
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One of the rules that makes no sense is the two-case rule. Regardless of the size of the building, regardless of the number of students, regardless of.. well, anything, if a building has two cases of covid, it closes. Well, not exactly- two unrelated case. So if it can be shown that there was somehow spread in the school, then the building would remain open. Yep.
Some schools are co-located- my daughter's school building has grades 2nd-12th for her school, and there is another middle school 6-8 located in the same building. If one high-schooler from her school, and one middle-schooler from the other school in her building test positive, the whole building is closed for ten days.
And it's like I'm taking crazy pills with how much people are clinging to this rule. Look, NYC is going to keep closing classrooms for cases in the classroom. They are going to regularly test students. Teachers have had access to the vaccine since January (That's when I qualified, too. I was able to easily secure an appointment, and my MIL waited half a week and was able to secure a weekend appointment). Students can opt-in to fully remote at any time. And people are acting like getting rid of the two-case rule would mean that NYC is just throwing caution into the wind, and wants to get rid of all precautions.
I get that we are lucky that our schools opened at all. But when they keep getting sent home for a rule that doesn't keep anybody safe, I just get frustrated. This week is Spring Break. We were going to keep the kids home. But their school closed the weeks before, they lost their structure from school, and we got behind at work. So we signed them up for Spring Break camp near my work. And guess what! That widened their bubble, and they are exposed to new people that they wouldn't have been to before. I trust that the camp is safe (especially since they can sit together), but it's nonsensical for people to think that if schools are closed, people are just.. staying home? And you can't even plan for it.
Huh, I find snaps harder when the baby is wriggly. Ours has started wanting to turn over on the change table, which is exciting
Child logic is confusing.
If you want to skip the mythology about chocolate delivery methods I don't think anybody should be too bothered. Provided you're not training your kids to scream "the chocolate comes from the shops, that's why Tesco sells eggs!" at other kids.
Here in the states Easter is basically Christmas 1.5. it's an excuse for a big meal and gift giving and candy.
We hid some eggs after Ripley went to sleep and they led her to her easter basket which was exciting.
We got my niece two baskets, one from Mommy and Daddy, and one I put together from the Easter Bunny. She also only gets one gift from Santa so she knows that there are in fact people spending time and money on her.
I was never told the Easter Bunny hid the eggs thougn; just filled the basket.
Oh, well that's good to hear . . .
Oh no, that kind of forward progress.
Yeah I'm not sure what the actual tradition is. My parents weren't religious so I never had anything to do with what Easter is actually supposed to be about. But, I knew of egg hunts and stuff so I figured I'd just do some riff on that.
I hid one egg on her nightstand and then one at her door and then you could follow the trail downstairs which led her to her basket on the fireplace. It was a lot of fun to watch and she kept flipping out she was so excited.
Highly reccomend this approach.
My kid still understands the Easter bunny as a concept. Even if we never "teach" it. The concept is everywhere in kids cartoons and school and daycare and Christian friends.
I don't teach Santa, and Santa is still known about.
If you live anywhere with a Christian majority or history, the kid will eventually pick up on the "existence" of the mythical creatures.
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Highly recommended reading material if you're looking for Easter inspiration. It doesn't take a lot of money, but it does take time and preparation. I keep meaning to try it myself now the kids are a bit older, but I was too disorganized this year with work and anniversary/birthdays.
For us as kids, the Easter basket was always somewhere in the house to find when we woke up Sunday morning. Then after church we’d go to some Aunt/Uncle’s house (or host at our place) have a big late lunch, then half the parents would go out and hide eggs while the other half cleaned up. Kids went out, found eggs, had a great time.
For our kids, we kind of... forgot to prep a basket. But we did the egg hunt in the yard! That kinda counts!
He's also started being really fussy when we put him down to sleep, taking multiple attempts to get him to stay in bed.
Is this just a phase?
He's usually really good with eating.
I mean, kind of this, but also our three year old definitely still has issues with successfully eating some foods, and so we just automatically make something else cause I don't want to be fishing out mostly chewed hamburger so I can brush her teeth.
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My time working retail electronics opened my eyes to the various degrees some people go to for Easter.
For me, my Easter basket usually had some small-medium toy in it... like whatever Super Soaker was popular that year or something else play-outside related. (Something that wouldn’t have fit for Xmas, because who wants to get a new squirt gun then be told “no you can’t play with it for 4 months”)
As we got older that changed to a movie or cd that we really wanted in our basket. We didn’t buy a lot of movies, so it was a big deal to actually get one to own instead of renting.
At work, I saw parents that seemed to be on the scale of my own (buying maybe a DS/3DS game to add to an Easter basket) and then some that took it way beyond; I had multiple parents across multiple years that did things like “yeah, we got him the wii for Christmas but now his friends play 360, so we’re getting him that for Easter”
I guess the point of this rant is that I feel like I kind of had an internal scale for how “big” of a gift could be under the Xmas tree, but the scale for how “big” an Easter basket can be varied wildly.
Really hoping this is part of the Easter gift conversation and not the kids food-preference conversation.
. . .gonna get a bird feeder and fill it with broccoli next time my kid is pretending to be a bird. We'll see how this goes.
Why, I don't know. But it is
This morning my kid has made be breakfast (a cut up peach and a bowl of muesli), done some online learning by herself, been watching videos about measles and the immune system, practicing her numbers 5 and 2, and writing down the weather. Oh and drawing B Cells and antibodies.
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We got, some vague talk about the Easter bunny (I stopped believing in Santa when I was like six so the bunny didn’t stand a chance) and Easter eggs. That was it. And thinking about my friends, we saw some people around Easter but I never remembered any gifts other than chocolate being received.
Satans..... hints.....
Here's this year's hunt: (2020, 2019, 2018)
As usual, we took a photo, got it printed out as a jigsaw, and hid the pieces in various places:
Kids solved it:
and the final image is this:
which is the outside tap that our garden hose connects to. So once they'd solved the puzzle and worked out what it was a picture of, they could head out to the tap:
where they found a bag containing two of these labyrinth gift boxes that I'd 3d printed. Solving those:
revealed two bits of paper:
which, when put one on top of the other:
said "LAUNDRY BASKET":
Finding that bit of paper:
contained this crossword / code:
which, once they solved it:
revealed the solution was:
"look in the oven":
In the oven was this puzzle:
which makes sense once you know that my wife'd been knitting a scarf every week for the year since the first lockdown and yarnbombing a tree in front of our house:
so once the kids had worked out that numbers <-> letters with 1-A..26-Z, the answer was "SHOWER":
In the shower:
was this clue:
which refers to the shed/office that my wife built last summer so she'd have a place to work with the kids at home.
Now, at this point, this type of riddle has traditionally been the end of the hunt.
But this year, betrayal! Someone had made their way into the shed already, eaten some chocolate, kidnapped the baskets, and left a ransom note!
despair and woe!
The note read ('if' at the start seems to have fallen off)
which translated to "walk across these planks set up between milk crates with your wrists tied together":
Once they'd performed the feat of derring-do, they got this mysterious "blank" bit of paper:
which, once held over a candle:
revealed the message "EASTER MINECRAFT" (or at least they worked that out through the soot):
They then launched Minecraft, and opened a minecraft world I'd made containing a much-scaled-down version of the dog park that we most often walk our dog at:
The beacon at the far end was next to a:three distinctive trees at the park, and b:a sign with the next clue:
So, off to the dog park as by this time our dog had _really_ had enough of this easter egg hunt business and wanted to get some exercise. At the park, three trees:
tied to which was a glove (we figured that if we set this up the night before, chances are that nobody would take it, because if you saw a glove in a tree at a park, you'd assume someone else had found it and tied it there for its owner to retrieve):
In the fingertip of the glove was the next clue:
which pointed them to our family photos web site (redacted), and "april santa" refers to the house number of a house around here that always leaves their santa figure up well into the spring of each year. Once we got back home, they could go to that website, and find the (really this time) final clue:
which pointed them to the in-couch storage where blankets (but mostly nerf guns) live, and where their easter baskets were:
Biggest learning this year: It is _really difficult_ to make a crossword. The "crossword makers" online only make really skeletal ones, doing a proper one which is solid enough took a heck of a long time and I only made a tiny one.
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Also, please clean your oven!
You're right -- that said, every so often I do have a go at the glass with scrapers and chemicals and whatnot, but because there's a window facing the front of the oven it never makes it much easier to see in because of glare, so it's not really as rewarding as I want it to be given how annoying a job it is.