Once I picked up the kids from camp, we dyed eggs. It brought back memories stirring the food coloring and vinegar with the hot water-- just like my Mom used to do-- before there were those fancy egg dying kits. The kids drew on the eggs with a white color crayon before dipping them.
Even Dennis had a fun time dipping the eggs.
Sveta was so excited when I told her that there might be three eggs a piece to dye! She was expecting only one!
Alex had fun dying his eggs! When I told him he could eat his first egg, he cracked it on the table and then took a huge bite of the egg--- shell and all! He didn't think anything of it until we told him to spit it out! What a crazy guy Caleb thought until I reminded him that he did something similar when he was Alex's age.
Later, Alex showed me how he got a little cut on his gum from the eggshells.
Mr. Independent wanted to peel his own egg.
He did a pretty good job. The yoke is what got him--- he tried to wash it down with water but just couldn't. Eventually he motioned to me that he wanted to spit it out which he did very politely into the napkin I was holding.
((Notice Dennis eating the egg yoke?)) Julia let me take her picture with her egg--- awwwe, what a cute little egg.
((Poor Dennis did not want to give up eating his egg yoke!))
After the kids were done dying eggs, they took a few outside and took turns hiding them from each other. Anna and Annalyn enjoyed hiding the eggs for Jonny who loved finding them over and over.
As I got ready to hit publish, Sveta and Jonny came to me asking if they could eat the last egg. Since this afternoon, the kids have polished off two dozen eggs!
As I got ready to hit publish, Sveta and Jonny came to me asking if they could eat the last egg. Since this afternoon, the kids have polished off two dozen eggs!
7 inspiring thoughts:
This year we will make more than 2 eggs each..used to be that I was the only one who would eat them, so I set a limit. Honor has discovered that she likes them too and can eat 2-3 at a time! (She'll ask for 'doubled eggs' - although she doesn't like them 'deviled', just hard boiled!) The kids think that the yolks are for the cats... just like I used to share with my dog when I was a kid :) but I mush mine up into egg salad and like the yolks :D
How fun!!! I would so love a play date with your family! You all just make me smile.
Sounds fun! Hopefully there's not a lot of methane in the house as a result of all the egg eating. :\
I'm glad that you had such a good Spring Break. We're looking forward to dyeing some eggs with the kids this year, even though they are brown, the colour still looks really nice.
Yolk not yoke.
Off topic from this post...thank you again for allowing me to use your blog for my research paper. So far, I am using two posts about Sveta, one about Rachel, and two about Alex. Thanks again!
ALL of my kids LOVE boiled eggs so we are doing 6 dozen this year!
Happy Easter!
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