Finally, the Eggs!

Yesterday La told me her favorite holidays are Christmas, Halloween and Easter. I said, "what about Thanksgiving?" and she replied with a halfhearted shrug and an, "Eh." I guess maybe she's indifferent about Thanksgiving because it's centered around mass quantities of food, and the second-to-last thing on this 40-pound kid's priority list is "eating meals." Which falls right before going to the dentist.

I wish I had that problem. If I did, I would probably fit into my wedding dress. But I don't ... so I don't.

Anyway, from about the time she was two years old to the time she was five, whenever a holiday came around, La would ask to dye Easter eggs. I would explain to her that we dye Easter eggs only on Easter, and that it wouldn't be as special at Easter time if we had already dyed eggs at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

And she was all, "So what?"

I saw her point. So we did dye Easter Eggs at Thanksgiving one year. Plus I get a healthy little buzz from breaking the rules every once in a while. It's fun!

Yesterday was the pinnacle of the year 2011 for La. She came home from school, and we got to work dying the eggs.



I love this focused little munchkin girl with my whole entire heart. Stringy hair and all. Isn't she the sweetest?



And then I discovered the macro setting on Dr P's camera, and now I have 412 photos that look exactly like these three:







Happy Easter everybody! I hope you get to dye some eggs this year. If not, there's always July 4th!