Watch our family grow!: Munchkin's Easter Eggs

Doesnt it always seem that before a holiday or special event (where lots of pictures will be taken) that children will get a huge bruise or rug burn? In my darling daughters case, she now has had huge bruises on Easter twice. Let us exam her Easter history:

Here she is in 2006 on her first Easter, unable to crawl and thus avoiding any bruises that year

Here in 2007 no bruises....we were obviously good over-protective parents back then.

Easter 2008 - Sporting not one but TWO bruises! Yay for crazy 2 year olds!

2009 she somehow avoided any battle scars (but refused to smile for any pictures, oh well)

And here we are in 2010, 5 days away from Easter. At my parents house the other night she reached down to grab something and SLAMMED her head into their glass table. The sound created from this made me absolutely nauseous!

After a little ice and a cool compress...

...she is sporting the monster egg of all time on her forehead!

We decided today to make some REAL Easter eggs, and the kids had a blast! Its the first time i've done it too, but i knew it was going to be a very messy process! So I had munchkin put on one of Daddy's old t-shirts ( you know, one of the ones I'm always trying to get rid of because its so old and I'm hoping he'll finally open the new pack of undershirts he got 3 Christmas's ago).

First we carefully picked 6 perfect eggs!

I then used a safety pin to put a hole in the top and bottom of the egg. Making the hole on the wider bottom bigger than the hole on the top. I put the pin inside again to scrambled the egg and be sure to break the yolk. And then....munchkin blew out the insides!

I was planning on using the egg to make scrambled eggs or some muffins, but after it was done there were hundreds of tiny pieces of shell in the bowl. I was pretty bummed because i hate wasting food like that.

Little bear had fun watching us too - he ate some toast and banged on a stool with spoons. Which, if you have an 8 month old at home, you know is about the most fun you could ever have!

After the eggs were all washed and then dried we put them in their own color dye. Munchkin loved mixing them around to make sure the color was spread on evenly, and this is where i was glad she was wearing that old shirt!