Our day before Easter...
Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 12:49AM We had a very full day before Easter...started with our annual neighborhood egg hunt:
The boys really enjoy this every year and it's wonderfully simple...for each kid who wants to participate, you drop off a dozen filled eggs the week beforehand. On the day of the hunt, each child simply knows that they get to collect 12 eggs. Easy. :) Afterward, the Easter Bunny usually makes an appearance. Before now, the boys have always been more interested in heading straight home to open their loot. This year, despite the chilling wind, Asher decided he wanted to have his picture taken with the Easter Bunny. (I'm sure the fact that he noticed the Easter Bunny had a wagon full of little goodies to hand out didn't factor in one little bit. Yeah. Right.)
He doesn't look like he's just going through the motions to get to the wagon, does he? ;)
Anyhow, then we hurried home to get warm (incidentally, I *did* ask the boys to bring their jackets, but they refused)...and dye our Easter eggs:
Noah got a bit fancy, after watching Nathan attempt to make an "argyle" egg. Micah thought the crayon looked fun, though he didn't actually end up doing much more than directing Nathan:
Asher, meanwhile, had his own little groove going and cranked out his eggs lickety-split:
Following all of this, we did some less exciting stuff (like laundry and eating) and then had our first home experience with dipping candles! Noah and I had dipped tapers at Christmas-time a couple years ago as part of a centennial village sort of outing, but we'd never tried the whole process ourselves. Last week the boys got it in their heads for some reason that we really needed to make candles. And somehow we ended up with a four pound block of wax and some wick and this is how our evening ended:
Very cool. I think we may have found a new favorite craft activity as a family...the boys are already planning candle making for all of the upcoming holidays (short orange ones at Halloween, long red ones at Christmas, pink ones at Valentines...). Fun!
Micah, though, did not think the candle making was so fun. For his own safety from hot wax, we strapped him into his little chair. He was, um, not happy. To make it up to him, I let him be the ham that he is and took plenty of pictures like this one:
He loves the camera...what can I say? ;) Yes, btw, that's a band-aid on his forehead. You'll notice the red mark in earlier pictures...can't seem to get him to stop picking at it, so covered it up this evening. Adds to the character of the picture, don't you think? :)
And that was our Saturday. Oh. And after the egg hunt and before the candles, it snowed. There's a layer on the ground still...*maybe* an inch on the fence just outside my window here. Fun. I'll let you know how tomorrow goes...
