Rob with Megan, Mason, and Merick coloring away at all those Easter eggs!
Megan isn't usually camera shy, but it was a no shower, messy hair day and being a teenager girl and all, she didn't want to give me any blackmail pictures....(she knows I have one already from when she is about 5 though!)
Pretty much for the last couple of years, we have moved away from the traditional "color" Easter eggs, hide them, hunt them. For some reason this year, we decided to do just that. Now with a 15, 13, and 9 year old, you wouldn't think that it would be very entertaining, but you would be wrong! Rob came home with 5 dozen eggs! Yeah you read that right, FIVE!!Merick picked out a couple of different design packets to use and they started the fun! Pretty soon, they had the entire table filled with cups to color all of the eggs. To see them all actually getting along was a miracle in itself!
One of the kits we bought had a magic crayon. That was my favorite!!! You know I had to write my own eggs and color them purple right?? Big shocker I know! You could write on the plain egg and when you put it in the color, it showed what you wrote. Merick wrote one that said "I love Mom!" Awe, be still my beating heart!
Next thing I know, Rob is in the kitchen helping them and making his own special egg.....I think it said something like "Christy is awesome and pretty much rocks every day". Okay, maybe it just said "Megan is a dork" or something like that. I could wish right?
Memorable to say the least! Easter morning, Megan went out and hid the eggs in the back yard for the boys to go find. I was worried that Mason would be too competitive and end up fighting with Merick before they were done. We were watching out the window when Merick lost his basket and dumped it out. Okay, here we go! To my pleasant surprise, Mason stopped looking for his own eggs and helped Merick pick up his basket and fill it back up. I have to say little things like that really make me so proud of my kids. They can show acts of kindness to their brother or sister! Who would have thought!
