Easter meets Halloween

After dying our hard-boiled eggs, the boys decided to decorate them with halloween stickers, rather than Easter stickers.  As a result, we had a dozen pastel colored eggs with scary eyes and angry eyebrows huddled up with their wooden counterparts, which my friend Monica picked up for me at the Mill Store for 79 cents each - thanks Monica.  I painted my wooden eggs with the Roasted Sesame Seed paint used on our kitchen walls. During a rainy day in the future, when I'm feeling artistically inspired, I plan to add flare to them using the Spanish Red paint left from my cabinet painting project.  

While my eggs will be with us for some time to come, we can't say the same for our dyed eggs.  A few, in fact, did not survive the 

weekend.  

I was wrapped up in my latest book, Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (one of several I came home with from Terry's book swap), while the boys played with their newly decorated eggs. Apparently as I read, one egg did not like the look he was getting from another, and a fight ensued.

While I have no pictures of the crime scene, you can imagine the carnage left in the wake of a hard-boiled egg fight. After the trouble makers were out of the picture, the rest of the eggs got along just fine.

For Easter, we got the boys eggs that hatch out into dinosaurs, to commemorate our most recent book, Oliver Butterworth's The Enormous Egg.