Archives for March 2013
Egg Hunt
Last Sunday we went to the egg hunt at church and Maxwell had a ball. We’ve been having egg hunts around the house for about 2 weeks now so he was ready for the real thing! 🙂
Looking cute and Easter-y!
Spencer and I met Robert and Maxwell up at church and all of Maxwell’s Sunday School friends were very interested in checking out the baby!
Luckily big brother Maxwell stepped in to save Spencer!
I don’t think Spencer minded sweet Anne checking him out though! 🙂
It was then time to head over to the hunt which they had moved inside because of the soggy, wet ground. While waiting, Maxwell got his basket stuck on his head…
I laughed and took another picture before finally helping him get it off! 🙂
Spencer enjoyed the hunt from the comfort of his stroller…
But Maxwell was on a mission…
His goal wasn’t to get as many eggs as possible though…
No, his goal was to get all the ORANGE eggs he could find! He only wanted those orange ones!
He knows what he likes! He ended up with a pretty full basket with mostly orange eggs plus a few red and yellow mixed in. Not a blue or green in sight! He was even more excited when I showed him the eggs had candy in them!
Even though he looks upset here, he’s actually just smiling through a mouthful of chocolate and trying not to lose any!!
My cute little egg hunters!
Happy Easter!
Shaving cream Easter eggs
Last weekend, I tried a new method of dying Easter eggs that sounded like it would be fun for Maxwell. It was fun…but it didn’t dye the eggs well at all. Oh well!
These were the instructions:
SHAVING CREAM EGG DYE
1. Spread cheap white shaving cream in a cookie sheet
2. Apply drops of neon food coloring across surface
3. Use toothpicks to swirl colors around
4. Roll the dried, cooled hardboiled eggs in the colorful cream (we used disposable kitchen gloves to reduce the tattoo effect)
5. Allow to set for 3-4 minutes on a paper plate
6. Wipe off shaving cream with paper toweling
7. Rinse! Voila! Beautiful marbleized eggs, done quickly!
Well, not exactly Voila! Now, I didn’t use the neon food coloring and I think that made the difference. I just had regular food coloring and I think it just wasn’t enough to really saturate the eggs with color. I might have used too much shaving cream too – or just needed to use a LOT more food coloring – in order to coat the eggs with enough color to stain them. No matter though, we still had fun!
Robert did say it was pretty funny to tuck his 2 year old into bed that night smelling like shaving cream! 🙂
One other note – I “boiled” my eggs in the oven and, aside from one cracked one, it worked great. I put them all in a mini muffin tin and baked them at 325 for 30 minutes and then put them in an ice bath immediately. Worked like a charm for this project!
Johnny jump up
Guess who got his first swing in the Johnny Jump Up last week? Spencey! I think he liked it…even if he didn’t really jump yet. He had fun just swinging around. I kept thinking he just needed more traction under his feet so I tried him with a non-slip pad and then pulled his pants up so he could jump barefoot. Neither change really made him jump but that’s ok. He’ll get the hang of it soon!
Not so sure about the non-stick pad…
And frankly a little unimpressed with the whole idea of jumping! 🙂
But barefoot was pretty fun!
I think he’s going to like it just as much as his brother did!
Pole dancing at the tot lot
In between the rain last weekend, we made a little stop at the tot lot to get some energy out. I took a bunch of great pictures but these have to be some of my very favorite pictures ever….you’ll see why!
Maxwell wanted to slide down the pole “like a fireman” so Robert decided to give him a little instruction…
“Grab the pole here, jump with your feet”…
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Maxwell was a quick learner! I looove the expressions on his face in all these pictures!
Robert then tried to teach him how to wrap his legs around so he could slide down…
Maxwell thought that was pretty cool!
Maxwell LOVED sliding down the pole just like the firemen do. “Do it again!”
Could you just die this picture is so cute?!
Just look at his excitement when he lands! Too much, just too much!
While Maxwell was doing pretty good, Robert thought he needed a little more instruction. And what better way to do that than to demonstrate! 🙂
Oh yea, that happened. and I was snapping away as fast as my camera would let me! 🙂
Robert didn’t just demonstrate once though – there was a second time too! My favorite part is Maxwell’s face in all these pictures. Robert got major cool Dad points for his demonstration!
Even Spencer thought it was pretty funny!
Way to go, Robert. Maxwell is lucky to have such a hands-on Dad!! 🙂