Yesterday we kicked off the Easter festivities with some egg dyeing and painting. This was no small feat with a toddler participant although it was ridiculously cute to watch. We started out using the egg dye and this worked out pretty well after we convinced Luke that not all of the the eggs had to be yellow and that he could use the blue and pink bowls. I'm not sure why, but apparently when I was in Target buying the egg coloring kit, I thought the paint and glitter kit looked like fun too. So next up was egg painting. Luke started out strong by painting just the top 5% of each egg. Then the paint turned into finger paint, but not the kind that actually comes off the skin easily. uggg. We finished the egg painting rather quickly but not before we added the glitter! Somewhere along the line, Luke thought the glitter was edible, but don't worry, we were able to stop him before his tongue connected with the egg. Saturday festivities, check! Onto Sunday...
The Easter bunny stopped by our house last night while Luke was sleeping to drop off some "presents and treats." Luke woke up extra early today (yay.) just to see if the Easter bunny took good care of him. I'm pretty sure that the presents won out for the most favorite Easter basket items. Who cares about M&Ms and lollipops when there's a bracelet making kit to play with! By 6:20 AM, we had already created two Luke size bracelets and by 7:00 AM the container of approx. 500 beads took a spill. Well, I should explain how the beads were spilled. The beads were in an open rubbermaid container inside Luke's Easter basket which was hanging from the handlebar of his scooter. Do you see where this story is going? After riding down the hallway with the Easter basket in tow, Luke abruptly stopped his scooter which fell over. Splash go the beads! Crawling around on the floor at 30 weeks pregnant picking up beads was fantastic! Nonetheless, I'm not delusional enough to think this won't happen again very soon.
After we got all cleaned up, we headed to M. Henry, our favorite breakfast spot. Uncle Nick came along and we had a successful breakfast. Luckily, the weather here in Chicago was actually spring like and we played in the front yard for a while after breakfast. We even did a little Easter Egg hunt with Luke. His favorite eggs were the ones with money in them - no surprise there!
Yay, I'm coloring Easter eggs!
Just call me Monet...
Egg decorating was exhausting, now I need to relax...
The Easter Bunny came!
Now that's a big egg...30 weeks big:
Declan loves babies...
The Egg Hunt:
Looking for eggs...
Found some!
Can I have more eggs?
First, you're brave to let Luke decorate his Easter eggs with glitter AND the bracelet making kit! Wow! He's in heaven. Your story of picking up the 500 beads that spilled with your 30 week belly reminds me of when I spilled a TON of coffee beans on the kitchen floor when I was 38 weeks pregnant! Aaron was still sleeping and I was determined to do it myself. What a disaster! Glad you had a fun Easter!
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