Grant was super excited to color eggs this year! Frankly, I was excited too! I missed out on the action last year since Wyatt was a tiny newborn, my mom did the egg coloring with Grant. The year before that, Grant watched his cousins color eggs from his highchair, so this was MY first experience coloring eggs with Grant!
We started off disrobing Grant. I'm kind of OCD about my kids' clothes and them getting stained. I put alot of effort into picking out their wardrobe and I hate when they get ruined! So I stripped Grant down to his undies, but he didn't want that, so he insisted on wearing an art smock. (Funny story- he called it a Swampfox, which is Levi's squadron mascot. I can see how he got confused! But the fact that he even requests an "art smock" makes me laugh too!! Oh, the things he learns from Max and Ruby.) So once an oversized Swampfox t-shirt, aka- the art smock, was located we got to work. I have to say the coloring was just awesome!! They were so vibrant and bright!! We had 12 eggs and 9 colors, so we had a whole rainbow of eggs! We wrote each persons name on an egg, as well as one for Levi! They turned out great!
We learned our lesson about hiding real eggs though when I was a kid. I think I was about 7 or 8 and my mom always hid our eggs the night before Easter. So Easter morning rolled around and we did our egg hunt inside because it was rainy, except one egg came up missing. My mom couldn't remember where all the eggs were hidden, so we looked everywhere, but no luck. Weeks, even months, went by without finding the egg, although we could smell it- terribly!!! I think a good 2-3 months after Easter, we finally found the rotting egg on the top of our grandfather clock. From that day on, the eggs we color only become deviled eggs and good old plastic eggs are hiding eggs!
