Easter was early this year (and nearly two months ago at this point), but we still got it together enough to celebrate a bit with Maya. This year we even tried something new: dyeing hard boiled eggs.

Daddy showing Maya how it’s done.

We didn’t try anything fancy this year, just straight Paas dye on white boiled eggs. Maya seemed interested in the process of dyeing the eggs. She liked dropping the tablets in the cups and liked the different colored eggs that came out. She doesn’t always understand about doing things gently yet and cracked a few shells tossing the eggs in the dye cups instead of slowly lowering them. With Daddy’s help though, things went more smoothly.

Maya – ~28 months old

I may have made a tactical error. Because I didn’t want to waste the boiled eggs, I insisted on keeping them refrigerated. I should probably have allowed them to come to room temperature before taking them outside and hiding them though. The day was hot and the condensation that developed on the cold eggs helped transfer the dye to Maya’s basket, her dress, and her hands.

Hunting eggs

That very cute dress she’s wearing came from Lolli and Pop a while ago, and it only recently started to fit well. It took some pretty intense negotiating to get her to wear the dress on this particular day. Now that there are no easter photos on the line, she wants to wear her “beeg dwess” all the time.

Hunting eggs

Ian was too little to participate (he napped through the easter egg hunt), and once we got everything finished up, we didn’t really have the gumption to dress him up and take his photo. Second kid is getting the shaft already, poor guy.

What?

Maya, we discovered, can take down a Cadbury egg on her own and in very little time. As an easter treat, we let her have a whole one all to herself. She had it unwrapped and half eaten before we really knew what had happened.