When I am not knitting, writing or home from work, the weekends can get taken up with adventures with my granddaughters, ages 8, 6 and almost 2. Namely duck hunting. Now, to make things clean I am not a hunter of ducks or anything, except I may get my in town hunting license to take out a couple of deer, they are such a menace to our neighborhood.
But the kind of duck hunting I do is with my granddaughter, I hide the ducks, they find them. When my daughter, Laura, was alive, she loved buying party favors, little games and fun things for kids, namely her nieces, to have fun with. One of those items was 100 rubber duckies in all colors. I think they get bought by other people to put on Jeeps, but we found better uses than that for these crazy colored rubber ducks. I hide them all over the house. When the granddaughters come over, nothing amuses them more than going on a treasure hunt. And since reading is hard for the two youngest ones, using written clues is not so much fun. But finding 100 ducks hidden in Grammy and Baba's house is very fun!
It gives me quite the workout to hide 100 ducks though. We only have two levels to our house, but running from room to room on each level, stooping down to a low level so the 2 year old can find them wears me out! But it is worth it. They get so excited and whoop and holler running all over the house finding the ducks. The 2 year old goes around saying, "Duck, duck, duck." each time she finds one.
These ducks come in disguise, some are colored as superheros, some are unicorns, military, clowns, you name it. They are hilarious. It's good clean fun and sometimes they even get used in the bathtub!
While the girls search, I have time to sit and knit about half of a row. They are really fast. I think come next Easter, I'll be hiding rubber ducks instead of eggs. Of course they won't contain a treat inside them, but honestly the girls care more about finding the ducks then getting bits of chocolate inside them!
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