Dying Easter Eggs

Yesterday I boiled 6 eggs for our little family to color. Incidentally there were also six colors of dye. They were barely used, but each one did some egg time.
Morgan and I got the table all ready with the supplies and mixed the dye tablets with vinegar and water.

Here's Morgan mixing the ingredients. (And looking a little stoned.)

Then it was time to color them. Aaron joined us. He informed me that this was his very first time dying Easter eggs. Ever. Wha?! It makes you think he's not American, or had a poor deprived childhood. I thought it was supposed to be a part of every American families tradition. Morgan and I have done the coloring before, but Aaron never wanted to join us. So, here is Aaron experiencing this Easter tradition for the very first time.

I used the trick of writing on the egg with a white crayon before dumping it in the dye. It worked well, but it showed that I couldn't really see what I was drawing very well.

Morgan dies one of his eggs yellow.

When Morgan's were all colorful he added stickers to his. Lots of them.

And here's the finished product. We all had different ways of doing it. Morgan's are all stickered up, Aaron's are multi-colored, and mine have the white crayon on them. Aaron let Morgan stickerify one of his eggs as well.

So, this means we will have potatoe salad sometime very soon.

Easter Egg Hunt

When we went to visit the Grandparents last weekend we thought it would be fun to have an Easter egg hunt for Morgan in their backyard. So we brought all the candy filled eggs, and when Morgan was distracted inside with his Great Grandparents, Aaron and I snuck to the backyard and filled it with eggs.

After lunch we all headed outside for the hunt. Morgan was all ready.
He was so excited. Especially when he saw eggs scattered around. He immediately went about collecting them. There was no rush, since he had no competition.

This egg was carefully balanced over the umbrella hole in the patio table. But Morgan could barely reach it and ended up nudging which sent it down the hole.

But it was more accessible there!

There were about 35 or so eggs for one little boy. Talk about spoiled. However, he had a lot of help eating the jelly beans and M&M's inside of them.

We think he found all the eggs. If not, his grandparents may find a tasty treat next time they're in the yard.

Feeding ducks

Believe it or not, Morgan reached the age of 3 1/2 before he ever had the experience of feeding ducks. It was high time we introduced him to it's joys.
Last weekend we went to Springville to visit Aaron's grandparents. Near their home is a little river and pond that is often filled with ducks and geese. So, upon leaving their home we took a few pieces of bread with us and stopped to feed the fowl.
There were a lot of other people there with the same idea, so the ducks were perhaps not as hungry as they could have been. But we attracted a little gathering and threw the bread chunks in the water.

Morgan made me a bit nervous though. He would go right to the very edge of the water and then launch the bread crumb in, which put him off balance. I was just sure he was going to launch himself in sometimes. I kept pulling him farther from the edge.
One of the other families brought a very excited little dog with them. And they didn't have a leash. You know what? I'll just say it. I'm not a dog person. I especially dislike the little dogs. I especially dislike the little dogs that run up to my little boy and make him all nervous so that he has to back away from it in fright right up to the very edge of the water. If I didn't intervene I am sure that Morgan would have ended up swimming with the ducks because the dumb dog kept pushing him back.

Anyway...all in all the feeding duck experience was a good one and I'm sure Morgan would like to repeat it.

Easter Wreath

First of all, hey look at me! A post three days in a row! That used to be normal...

Today I got on a preschool website to print a page of the letter D for Morgan to trace. While there I noticed a tab that said Easter. I checked it out, and looked at all of the Easter craft ideas and instructions that they had. I chose a craft that was cute and which we had the materials for, printed a template and we got to work.

Morgan colored the picture and I cut it out. While I did, Morgan had some paper scraps which he was happily cutting to shreds. We are barely figuring out to even hold them, so straight cut scraps is all he could handle.

He glued pieces of the rabbit together, (he's great with a glue stick) and I cut out strips of construction paper.

It's like he's sayin', "What, it's just glue. Give me a break."

Then we had a little two-person assembly line going. Morgan glued the end of a strip of paper and I curled it into a loop. When we had all our loops Morgan and I glued them to our previously cut ring of cardboard.

And we have our finished product. Kinda cute. Kind of fragile. The paper doesn't like to stay on.

We hung it on the door for everyone to see.

Of a writing, singing, rhyming little boy

Video time! Now, I know it's long, but I tried really hard to cut footage to get it even this short. He's just to cute and smart to cut!



By the way, the Easter bit, he says that the Easter Bunny is going to leave him Sally. The blue porche from Cars. He's quite sure of this fact, and I have no idea where he got the idea. But the thing is, we have been planning on getting him another Cars character. So he might just be right.

Morgan loved tracing his name. He's been asking to do it more this afternoon so I printed some letter sheets for him to trace and it makes him one happy boy.

On a different note, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and it feels like Spring. Inside. I admit, I only opened the door to get the mail once today, and that is the extent of my visit to the outdoors. But it looks Springy. Also, it's laundry day. While my regular pairs of pants were being washed I had to find something else to wear. My selection was a pair of capri's. Then I had to put on a bright yellow shirt to go with it, and I have been feeling great all day! I even did extra good at my daily chores.

I think I'll paint my toenails....

Playing Chess

Even though I visited family for close to a month, I managed only to take about 6 pictures. All in one sitting. These are they.

Morgan and his cousins Kaien and Emmy played chess in their own little way.

Then made funny faces for the camera.

Here we have the youngest of the cousins, baby Ammon.

When Morgan first met him, he had little interest. When Morgan second met him he still had little interest. But this time around Morgan loved Ammon. He would get close to his face and talk baby talk to him and ask him questions. I do think Morgan expected responses. He loved to pat him and play with him. It was very cute.

Funny alert. I just now asked Morgan, "Do you like Ammon?" His response, "Yeah! And I like Emmy and Kaien. And Kaien scares me too."

Side note: Morgan has since had a haircut. Phew!

More Morgan

Because I don't have a specific place to write down funny things Morgan says yet, I will put them up here again. Eventually I plan to get a little notebook deal and write them all in there, but they have to be somewhere else first. And this is it.

These are just from today.

I was playing a hymn on the piano, (We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet) and I hear Morgan excitedly say, "That's the brand-new baby song!" I chuckled and relayed the message to Aaron, and added, "That's kinda weird." Then Morgan pipes up from down the hall, "It's kinda not weird!"

Morgan found an oven mitt in the kitchen and tried it on, to his great delight. Then he said, "I'm just like Mommy!" I'm glad that's the light he sees me in...

Lately I've been trying to prompt Morgan to come up with things in his prayers that he is thankful for without my help. He's been doing pretty good. Last night he said, "I'm thankful for volleyball." That's my boy!