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Another Crazy Easter

Marking in the egg with a paraffin crayon before putting it in the dye
 It seems that we have only had one "normal" Easter since Maddy was born. The 1st Easter, she came home from NICU on Easter day and we has Subway sandwiches for Easter dinner. 2nd Easter was the "normal" Easter where we wore our Easter dresses to church, got some pics of Maddy in front of the tulips in our yard, had ham and the whole 9 yards for lunch. We did miss the neighborhood Easter egg hunt because we arrived 2 minutes after it started and it was already over.  3rd Easter, we came home Maddy's first major surgery at Scottish Rite that weekend and Maddy had purple casts up to her hips on both legs on Easter day. Some friends from church brought us Easter dinner. 4th Easter (this year) we were driving home from York on Easter day. We did a flying trip up there on Easter weekend for the President's Counsel thing that Aaron likes to be a part of. Unfortunately, my allergies kicked in big time the day we left to drive up and they were in full gear the whole time we were there. We stayed with the Coopers, which was great. We had such a good time with them. They are great hosts and so laid back about everything. Maddy had a great time playing with their little girl who is 5. We got to spend a lot of time with them this trip because we didn't do songfest or any of the other campus activities. We did take the kids to the children's theater in the morning. The play was The Wizard of OZ and Maddy really enjoyed it. I did enjoy the trip as much as I could but it seems that there is a jinx on me and going back to York. Last year, I burned my entire forearm with a pot of coffee in our hotel room and this year I had such a runny nose that I actually ended up with a scab on my nose from wiping it so much. Maybe next year, I can beat the jinx and be better company than I've been for the last two years.
dying the eggs

Ohhhhh...pink egg
 Since we weren't going to be here Easter weekend, we dyed eggs on Wednesday night after I got home from teaching class. Maddy had really bad allergies on this night so if the pictures look like she got punched in the eyes, that is why. Her poor little eyes were so swollen that night. She still managed to have a great time dying the eggs. She also loved peeling and eating them. She ate two eggs, minus the yolk. That part was too dry for her liking. She also enjoyed putting tattoos on the eggs and drawing on the with the paraffin crayons. She liked dying but her eggs didn't get very dark because she wasn't very patient about leaving them in the dye for a long time.

peeling the egg

taking a bite

The yolk is not her favorite part

Let's just concentrate on eating the good part

finished product
We did manage to take her Easter basket with us and gave it to her in the car on the way home. She got eggs shaped sidewalk chalk, some plastic Easter cups, and some candy. Maddy was really excited about Easter this year. She kept asking if it was "easter time" yet. We let her wear her Easter dress the Sunday before Easter since we wouldn't be at church on Easter. I will post those pics in a different post because that is also when we went to see the bluebonnets and take pictures down by DBU.

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