Easter monster?

OK I had to add just one more picture to the Easter egg post. Dakota decided to create the Easter monster by making crazy eye eggs and a funky tooth egg. Then the genius duck taped them to his face to pose for this picture!

Getting ready for Easter

Coloring Easter eggs is a favorite in my family. Something we get together to do every year. You start out with an outrageous number of clean boiled eggs, a dozen or so egg coloring cups, and clean happy kids. As Gussy and Otto clearly demonstrate, excitement is in the waiting. Then, softly place an egg in your desired coloring cup. Spoons or egg scoops are recommended but not required. Once you are happy with the color your egg has taken on, remove and start a new egg. (Again spoons and egg scoops are not required.)

Wait... I thought we were coloring Easter eggs, not fingers. Gus ended up with a green right hand and a purple left hand. These were later dubbed the "monster hands!"

Really though, Easter is another time when family's get together. We are planning a big Easter egg hunt this weekend, and Papa T is even going to be here for it. Gus is starting to understand things like holidays and traditions so I'm really excited for him to try out Easter this year. The nore we do the more he learns. The little turd is just getting too smart for his old mom!

Cookie Cutters

I took Gus to get his hair cut this afternoon at Cookie Cutters. That's a pretty cool place! They have a little playground area, a game station, each chair is something fun, and the kids can choose a movie to watch or play video games while they get their hair cut.


I thought that Gus would want to sit in the airplane but he really wanted the car with the flames on it. What can I say, we like the classics! He really wanted to sit in the fire truck but that's where they do the shampooing.

Afterwards he got a blue balloon and a red sucker. (He HAD to have a red one.) The only thing that he was mad at the whole time was he didn't want to wear the cape. Other than that he did really good!