A Perry Tradition...

We did our annual egg coloring this year.  I would say that I have a love/hate relationship with egg coloring and pumpkin carving.  I love the thought of doing these things, but it never turns out as pretty as the magazines and there is always such a mess to clean-up after you are done.  But, it is my thought that every child should be able to expierence these two things.  And for those parents who don't do them should be charges with child neglect...ha ha!!

I love when kids get to expierence things for the *first* time.  I say *first* like this because sometimes kids have done them before but they are too young to have remembered it and it's like the first time.  Here is what Max did when we told him we were going to color egg.....

~He went and got the Markers....

...but he quickly caught on~

We invited little Jake to come color eggs because I knew they probably weren't going to do it for just a little 8 month old and I didn't want Kyle & Kara to get charged with child neglect.  So since Kara had plans to go to the musical that night Kyle did his fatherly duty and colored eggs with his son...

That lasted all but 2 seconds before he spilled the dye and made a mess....

So Jake had to spend the rest of the night watching from afar...

He didn't seem to care that he was in trouble.

Now I remember why parents don't do this with kids so little.  I change my mind, you shouldn't be able to be charged with child neglect unless they are over 2 and you don't color eggs  ;)

I don't know if Jake was really excited to be coloring eggs or if he was just hamming it up for the camera because he was being very photogenic...

Here are a couple of shots of the night!!

Are we the only ones who still write on eggs with a white crayon???

And the night ended with Max throwing his sippy cup (yep more terrible twos) and splattering green dye all over uncle Kyle and Jake.  So....it was time to clean up :)

Happy Easter!!!!