Easter Eggs

I

think sometimes I try to rush a lot of my childhood memories on my 2 year old...for instance, dying Easter Eggs.

That is one of my favorite memories as a child during the Easter holiday. Every Easter Mom would have an afternoon for us kids to dye all our Easter eggs that the Easter bunny would hide on Easter Sunday for us to find. She would have all the newspaper spread out with our mugs full of different colored dye. And we would be so creative with our "dying". So we thought they were amazing, they probably weren't the most profesional dyed Easter Eggs, but we had a blast.

Well being the ideal mom that I try to be, I rushed to the store and got a dye kit...which let me tell you, there are SO many to choose from that it was kind of overwhelming. But I picked one up and then proceeded to get our 3 dozen eggs. Get home and we eat dinner and then it's time for our project......First of all, I didn't have any newspaper to spread on the table so I used paper towels....not the greatest, but that's all we had. Get the cups of dye all ready...there is red, green, orange, yellow and blue. The three of us sit in our chairs and then Aidan decides to be a wild man! He is dropping eggs in the cups of dye, taking them out with his hands, putting the dyed egg in his mouth, taking the cups of dye and tipping them over and it's spilling all over the table, trying to squeeze the eggs, etc. It was just a huge mess! Needless to say, we let him dye 3 eggs and then it was time to clean him up and put him to bed. :) I think I should have waited until he's 4. lol I know he had fun, we have pictures to show it. Allan and I ended up having fun dying the rest of the eggs after Aidan went to sleep.

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter! We sure did. Our family from Austin came down and we had a fun filled weekend!