Today was an experience. Not one that I had expected, but an experience to say the least! Grammy, Poppy, Carter and I colored our first Easter eggs - ever!
I expected that Carter would quickly swipe at cups of dye, spilling everything everywhere or that she'd toss drippy eggs on the floor and try to drink the vinegar-water-dye mixture. Surprisingly, she did great!
She sat with me, and then we Grammy. She initially watched as we'd put an egg in the dye with the little dipper. She tried the dipper, then lost interest and moved to dying with her hand - or simply dying her hand! She would grab, calmly and peacefully doing so, the eggs from the dye and then "tap" them dry on the paper towel. She'd move them from color to color, making really cool tye-dye'd looking eggs. She'd giggle, ponder and look at her yucky hand (I couldn't help but think how much she looked like Elphaba, from "Wicked," the Wicked Witch of the West, from the musical we drove to Chicago to see a few weeks ago!).
She did wonderfully and we all had a ball with her!
Good Bunny!
Table prepped - check
All hands on deck - check
Let's color eggs!
Such delicate concentration ... to begin with! By the end, she was pounding the eggs on the paper to dry them!
Look at that furrowed brow of contention!
"Why am I green?!?"
"Who cares why I'm green! This is great!"
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