Easter Egg Fun

This year I didn't get very many pictures of the kids doing their Easter activities. But I did get a few of them coloring their eggs. I remember when Taylor was little, and just buying one dozen eggs seemed like plenty...too many in fact for one little guy to color on his own. Now, with 4 of them...we have to buy a couple of 18 count egg cartons. It's a good thing that we really enjoy foods such as deviled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, and egg gravy over toast! Because the week after easter...we eat a lot of eggs.

In his 3rd grade class this year, Taylor's teacher taught them a little bit about the Pysanky egg tradition from the Ukraine. He was pretty excited about that, and so he tried to do a little bit of the Pysanky technique on his eggs this year. He used a crayon to color designs, and then dipped it into different succeeding colors. It was fun to watch him try to figure out the whole process.

Andy and I actually have made a few Pysanky eggs when we were first married. It was a tradition of his family's to do them around Easter time. I'll have to post pictures of our first two years worth of eggs.


Rachey is all girl, and made her eggs cute and PINK or PURPLE. She also glued these little flowers to her eggs. They were almost too beautiful to eat...almost.

And Brooklynn really had fun drawing on her eggs with crayon too. She wanted to do hers like Tays. She went to a little princess birthday party earlier that day and so she was still wearing her princess crown that she had made.

Matthew was (as always) hilarious. Okay, well, truth be told I actually had to leave for a few minutes or I was going to have a breakdown. :) Brooklynn about two minutes into the egg dying, spilled a cup of the egg dye. I had just barely told her not to reach over the egg cups. She reached, she spilled. Mom left. Whew!!! It's amazing how just sitting in the minivan for a few minutes listening to music and no kids will do wonders for the nervous system.

Okay, so after mom settled her nerves, she came back in to face the troops. Matthew (as I was saying) was hilarious. He thought that the egg dye was KOOL AID. He wouldn't believe us when we kept trying to tell him that it was icky. Well...I turned my back for a few seconds and...gulp, gulp, SPIT!!!!!!

He now knows that easter egg dye is NOT kool aid. It is "gross, so gross". (My girls taught him that wonderful word.) After his learning experience with egg dye, he was perfectly happy to just color on his eggs with crayons, and let us help him dip them in the cups. He had a blue-stained nose that was just too funny.

This picture really isn't to show off their beautiful eggs...it's to show that we actually survived easter egg dying for one more year. :) Next year I hope that it's a nice day outside so we can do this out on the grass in swimsuits or something!!!