Dying Easter Eggs

This year, I had a hard time finding time to dye Easter Eggs. So we ended up doing it the Friday night before Easter when Anna's friend Will was over to play. It was a lot crazier with three kids, lots of plops and splashes as the eggs were dropped into the dye. I was worried we'd end up with dyed carpet and dyed clothes too, but we made it without any huge mishaps.

 April 6, 2012

Evie keeps a close eye on her egg.

Easter Sunday

Sunday morning, they are still eating easter candy and they are still hyper. It looks like Evie is also still drooling.

I wanted to take pictures of them in their Easter dresses before Church, but as usual, we were running late, so I just snapped a quick photo and then planned to try to get more pictures after Church.

But then, on the way home from Church, Evie fell asleep. So I took some photos with Anna and by the time Evie woke up, I had already changed Anna out of her Easter dress, so it didn't quite work out to get pictures of them together after Church.

Easter Saturday

The Easter Bunny came to our house early Saturday morning. I think he hid a few eggs along with the easter baskets and Anna was great about helping Evie find some of the eggs.

Admiring each other's bunny ears. They seemed to be a hit!

Just like Anna when she was this age, Evie started stuffing candy in her mouth.

She had so many chocolate peanut butter eggs in her mouth that she couldn't even chew them. She could only suck on them and then while climbing on Dan, she started to drool.

When she started drooling, I decided to intervene and pull some of the candy out of her mouth.

She wasn't happy about loosing some of her candy. Both kids were pretty hyper all day long, which is another good reason for the Easter Bunny to drop off the baskets on Saturday morning instead of Sunday. Dan and I are thinking about putting in a request for granola bars and carrots for next year's Easter baskets.

Decorating Easter Eggs

The Friday before Easter, we decorated Easter eggs. I'm thinking we must have done it during Evie's nap time because she's not in any of the photos and I don't think I was quite ready to have her near egg dye. We keep it really simple at our house, just using the HAAS dye and stickers.

Using the wax crayon to make designs before dying the egg

Snapshots in April 2011

On April Fool's Day we went swimming with my friend Cami and her Janey, who is Anna's age. Mostly the girls wanted to stay in the kiddie pool far away from the giant bucket that dumps out water. Evie really liked the slide in the kiddie pool but needed a little help to actually get moving down it. I pulled out my camera just before we left. I guess I wanted to document the fact that we went swimming since it had been awhile for us since our last trip to the pool.

Evie playing with Anna's crown.

One day the girls dragged out Anna's little rocking chair and took turns pushing each other in it. Of course I was elated to see them sharing something rather than fighting over it.

Anna likes to climb in these storage bins and asks me to put the lid on. I told her I'd only do it for a few seconds--long enough to snap this photo. But before anyone calls DCFS, I won't put the lid on for her anymore. In fact, now when she asks, I just read her the warning on the lid itself.

One morning I came out from my room to discover that Anna had taken a purple piece of chalk and drawn all over our walls. Luckily for both of us, chalk wipes right off.

Showing off the bling she brought home from a birthday party.

We were so excited when the weather got warm enough to go to the park. Yay!

Easter presents from Grandpa and Sandy. Anna receive a Lamb Chop replica and Evie got a little Woodstock.

Yes, in case you are wondering, that is a diaper Anna put on her head. I don't know anymore than that.

My mom found this sucker that was covered with a plastic globe and little balls of candy. I think the idea was that the kid could dip her sucker in the candy balls and lick them off, but to my mom, it reminded her of a rattle. She thought it would also look like a rattle to Evie too and she could just play with it. But Evie immediately recognized it for what it was and demanded that we unwrap it so that she could get that sucker into her moth.

I still don't know why, but one day, my kids decided it would be fun to take all the books out of our bookshelf and dump them behind the kitchen table. I try to keep reminding myself that they are learning initiative when they do these sorts of things. I guess I just need to do a better job of teaching them to help me clean up these messes. And of course, I decided to take a picture to document this mess.