For the past few years, we have managed to get the boys together with a few friends to dye Easter eggs. It’s not something to usually holds their attention too terribly long, but it still tends to get quite messy.
This year our two brothers hosted two other sets of brothers. Six boys, 42 eggs, and 8 containers of egg dye equals a fun time with a bit of a craziness factor thrown in there.
As with most things, Parker felt the need to make it a true hands-on experience. Thank goodness for L’Occitane soap (though thankfully Thomas didn’t get it on his hands because that miracle-working soap causes him to break out in an awful rash of sorts—we think it’s the shea butter). Nothing else was getting that stuff off his hands (wouldn’t be as big of a problem if he wasn’t a thumb sucker and every time he put his greenish blue thumb in his mouth, it would get wet and then put dye on whatever he touched next!).
I think at this point most of the other boys had run off to play upstairs, but Parker was still focused on coloring the eggs!
After sending a dozen home with both of the other sets of brothers, we were left with all of these. Someone liked blue!
I ended up making deviled eggs for the first time since I had so many eggs. At least I was able to contribute something to our Easter dinner at my parents’ house!
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