Spring is in the air and it just makes me utterly giddy! A few days ago I boiled a dozen eggs with the plan that we’d spread out some newspaper and go to town dyeing those suckers, but life got the better of us and we continually opted to be outside. And then yesterday, while walking Sydney, I had an epiphany and realized that we should dye those dang eggs outside! Duh!
I started to talk to Maggie about the ‘project’ that we were going to do when we got home and how much fun it was going to be. I told her all about the table that we were going to set up and how we were going to carefully move the eggs outside and make them change color. She seemed excited at the idea of a ‘project’ and when we got home she instantly hunted down her apron like we’d talked about. She got a bit distracted by her baby dolls and I used that time to fill the dye cups and get them ready to transport. I also went to our back room to change my lens and within less than a minute, Maggie stopped playing with her dollies and found the blue dye on the counter top.
I came around the corner to see her ‘holding’ the blue dye cup and standing in a huge blue puddle. At first I wanted to laugh really hard because….well, it looked funny. But the next thought was about our hardwood floors (Funny that I didn’t worry about the ugly linoleum in our kitchen…) and if we were now forever destined to look at a blue stain. Thankfully it wiped right off, but the dye on Maggie’s hand? Not so much. We’re working on it, but I swear that she must have soaked her hand in that blue dye trying to get it off the counter.
Once things got set up outside, we were ready to rumble. Asking an almost two-year old to wait a few minutes while some eggs soak in colorful water felt like a mean, mean trick. We went and added coats and hats to our wardrobe, in hopes of distracting ourselves a bit, but Maggie practically sprinted back outside to “watch de eggs.”
And watch she did……there was something about that blue that she just loved. I eventually gave up on trying to have her use the tool and just let her dig her hands right into the dye. It’ll come off soon, I hope.
When Barry got home later in the day, Maggie instantly wanted to show him her eggs and was very proud about her work, dropping one or two in the process and wondering why they broke. I totally understand why she’s so proud, look at those colors! You’ve got to wait a long time to get such vibrant colors!!
So, Spring is springing up around us. We mowed the lawn for the first time this week and actually spent time pulling weeds in the garden, it felt good. We still have our winter coats close by, but I can feel the weather shifting and it makes me hippity-hoppity-happy!
HAPPY FRIDAY!!
