It was so much fun having William participate in the Easter festivities this year. But boy, what a mess! Of all the colors available, he only liked the blue. (Of course he picks the one that dyes the strongest!) And he pretty much focused on one particular egg to "work on" shall we say.
It went something like this:
1. Pick up egg.
2. Squeeze egg.
3. Throw egg into blue food coloring.
4. Stick both hands in food coloring with the egg.
5. Rub hands on face, clothing, countertop, Mom....
6. Open the cutlery drawer below the cabinet and put wet, blue egg inside.
7. Pull out all cutlery and put into the blue food dye.
8. Pull egg out of drawer and THROW back into blue food coloring.
9. Repeat x 10.
Needless to say he had a bath this afternoon.
Another unfortunate side effect of "bathing" in blue food coloring is that it stains certain parts of the body in a rather alarming manner. Particularly for those who work in healthcare; it is disconcerting to see your child with blue lips, tongue, and fingertips, and toes. For the rest of the day I had to control the urge to gasp whenever I looked at him!
But he had a blast and that's what matters :O)
Oh, and his blue egg was very "special" looking shall we say.
It was a gorgeous spring day and as we hadn't ventured up into altitude yet in 2009, we decided to go hiking. We did the 2.5 mile loop around the Resevoir. The big kids walked (or tried to walk) the whole way, while William hitched a ride on Paul's back. Eleanor was a challenge. Those of you who know her will not be shocked to learn that she talked the entire time in her usual animated way. This caused some problems as it is virtually impossible to watch where you are walking whilst simultaneously gesturing. So we had to take a lot of breaks, and she was pretty fed up with slipping on rocks by the time we turned around and headed back down. But Paul and I were rather impressed that a 6 and 4 year old made it just the same!
