Egg Hunt

We packed in a lot of activity today before we left for home. First, my dear brother-in-law (BIL) made pancakes and turkey bacon for breakfast. We then watched home videos with my parents who spent the night last night. When my other sister M arrived, my sisters and my Mom and I all took off for the outlet mall. We had so much fun shopping together. We didn't even have to spend a whole hour in the Coach store! ;)

When we got home we had lunch and then Natalie, my niece A, and Eric dyed eggs. We had expected the girls to dye eggs, but Eric wanted to do it too. C bought some cotton swab-looking sticks that had dye already in them. The kids were able to use different colors to draw on the eggs. Eric used the same one the whole time, but he had lots of fun doing it. :)

While they were busy doing that, my sisters and I hid some "cascarones" or confetti eggs in their backyard. The older kids found their allotment of eggs in no time at all. Eric got off to a slow start because I was still putting on his shoes when the "hounds were unleashed", so everyone helped him find the leftover eggs.

The fun part for the kids was actually breaking the cascarones over each other's heads. There were the usual complaints of eggs being broken on heads with too much force and unwanted eggs broken down people's backs, but in all everyone was willing and everyone had fun. Eric didn't even try to break any eggs on anyone else but himself, at first. I reasoned that was because that his was the only head he could reach. I summoned his biggest brother at one point and Anthony willingly allowed Eric to break a cascarone over his head.

Unfortunately, the fun had to end and we quickly packed up the car and left for home. Luckily, we'll be seeing my sister C and her DD A along with my parents next week for Eric's birthday and Natalie's First Communion. We missed Patrick and Alex and it felt great to be home.