After 6 years of marriage by husband with the scrooge like attitude towards all holiday activites is finally coming around. This year when Easter rolled around we were at Walmart doing some shopping and decided we had better purchase an egg coloring kit. Brody still remembered it from the year before and was anxiously awaiting to do it again! Well, imagine my surprise when we get home and I find the ultimate-supreme-motherload of all egg coloring kits I've ever seen. Trevor claims he didn't see the .97 cent ones, but he's not fooling me....
Well, Easter weekend just came up so fast! I hard boiled the eggs and had them all ready to go, but we were so wrapped up in a project (more on those another day...) that we didn't get around to it. Me being the awesome mom that never tells white lies or misses anything, I decided I would just store the kit away for next year. That is, until, a week AFTER when Brody spotted the kit that I hadn't stored out of sight yet and said, "mom we almost a-got (forgot) to make eggs!" I told him we would do them next year and he started to beg! I told him to ask his dad if we could do them and so the saturday after Easter that was what we did!
As I said before, this was the motherload of all egg coloring kits! I didn't even realize how much so until I opened it up. Besides the normal 6 colors there was 6 more. And glue. And glitter. And sequins. And beads. And paint and brushes. And stickers. And the magic white crayon. And probably more that I can'e even remember. I knew the 12 eggs I had boiled just wouldn't be enough. So another dozen it was!
First things first, we had to set up all the stuff, protect the table with a disposable cloth, and take off Brody's shirt so that the inevitable spilling of dye won't ruin it.
Lucky for Ryder, this year he didn't have to sit on top of the table in his bumbo seat as a spectator. He got to participate and put his own 'creative touches' on some eggs.
See, Mom! I have a paintbrush! (yes, we were probably a little nuts for letting him have paint)
Oh, wait....like all new things with Ry....he has to taste them to make sure everything is kosher...
And since Mom doesn't get in many pictures because she is taking them, we decided to TRY. This was the best out of about 5....
Brody concentrated pretty hard on making everything look just right. He even said as we were getting everything out, "this is incredible!" I don't know where he learns some of the words he knows but he is great at coming up with some adjectives.
Ultimate egg coloring with the ultimate coolest boys I know.
And we always have to get a picture of the mess that gets all over Brody. Its less than last years, so that's impressive.
And finally as Brody would say, "his masser-pieces!"
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