I decided that I should join the mobs of other mom’s who want to share the early joy’s of dying Easter Eggs with their young toddler’s.
I have no idea what I was thinking.
It did turn out to be moderately fun if you consider laughing at your husband’s frustration fun, like I do.
Here we are preparing the egg dye. Evan wants to do everything that Alyssa does.
I have no idea what she is doing…trying to dye her hair?! lol I’ll take this moment to point out that right before we dyed eggs she found some new clothes I bought her and HAD to put them on. We put an apron over the top and wouldn’t you know, she figured a way to get red dye on the shirt AND shorts and NOT on the apron. Hmmm now that is talent. Luckily I treated the stains quickly and it came out! :)
Luke had the joy of helping Evan with his eggs. Luke attempted to pretend to have Evan do it…but he’s too smart for his daddy.
So we gave Evan “the tool” to use to “stir” the egg.
But then he wanted the spoon…which turned out to be “dangerous” as you might can see from the yellow water about to spill out of the bowl below.
Then out of frustration, Luke invented a “NEW and upcoming color for Easter Eggs!”
CLEAR!
We gave Evan his bowl of clear water “dye” and let him have at it with an egg. He dropped it in a few different times and was then curious as to the cracking noise. He inspected the crack and decided he should take this opportunity to explore the egg further….. AND THEN…
He TOOK A BITE…into the shell and everything. After deciding the shell wasn’t that good he used his finger to fish out the egg from the shell.
He then proceeded to concur and destroy. At one point the middle fell out into the water and intrigued at the little yellow ball, he picked it up and happily ate it as if he had found the creamy center of a Cadbury egg. bleh!
As for Alyssa, when she noticed how much fun Evan was having with his egg, she decided to peel apart an egg she had just dyed. And followed her little brother’s lead to take a bite into the crunchy egg shell.
But she is older and wiser and decided that it was not ideal to eat the egg with the shell and began to s…l…o…w….l….y pick apart her egg and then eat it.
When the fun was over, Easter Eve was upon us. We ended up with some pretty fab eggs and I took their picture next to the kid’s Easter basket’s.
For some amazing looking Easter Eggs…check out my friend Jenny’s blog titled
Egg-vidence of the Hand. She’s an amazing artist!