Eggs are not for tikes

Eggs and kids don't mix so well. A long time ago people used to color real eggs for Easter. Of course this posed a problem with the little kids. Joey the great would run around finding the Easter Eggs like any 3 year old would. By the end of the Easter egg hunt the eggs would be cracked, dripping all over the castle, and he would be covered in a mixture of egg whites and yolks, crying that all the eggs were broken.
Luckily he had a smart father who decided to hard boil the eggs the following year. Thus "childproofing" the art of Easter egg hunting for his over zealous son.

Unfortunately for the father of a 15 month old, hardboiling does little to "childproof" eggs at Easter. Dad decided to dye some eggs with Charlotte on Sunday. Nothing safer than permanent little pucks of food coloring in glass bowls with eggs in the hands of a child. Dad yelled at mom for buying the "generic easter egg coloring kit" since they always seem to use the most permanent dyes. She thinks he is crazy. Charlotte agreed.

With dad in a t-shirt and Charlotte in clothes that she has now outgrown, the coloring of the eggs started. Of course balancing the eggs on the stupid wire hoop is difficult enough for any adult. In the hands of a 15 month old it is just asking for a mess. A permanent mess at that.
In the end she used her hands which was ok by us.
We survived the coloring extravaganza. Although Charlottes fingers were stained blue and red and orange. She didn't like that. Those of you that are entrepeneurs out there please invent a replacement for the wire hoop thingy used to dip the eggs. Please.





Dad also started on Charlotte's back up plan in case she doesn't grow up to be a computer revolutionary and give Bill Gates a run for his money. Instead she will challenge Tiger Woods to a little game of golf.




If all else fails she also learned the art of stealing. We dont know where she learned this from. Frankly we aren't too worried because from the looks of it she is not very good at stealing. Whats that in your shirt Captain Obvious?