April 24, 2011

• Easter Eggs And The Drama Queen

  
  TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

  The Princess brought over a dozen eggs today for me to hard boil and then decorate with Chewlee.  Chewlee was excited about it but I explained to her we had to hard boil the eggs first, then let them cool off before we could color them and decorate them.  She accepted that as long as she could watch Sponge Bob and have her strawberry-kiwi juice.  She’s still not feeling great but she is a bit better.  When she starts running a fever, you can tell because she gets less active and stops talking so much.  At least she is good about taking her medicine (aka ibuprofen).  She asked me to lay down with her to take a nap and said, *and we can talk, right?* 

  She goofed around a bit when we laid down but she finally grabbed her tee-tee and the big stuffed, soft bunny that she used as her pillow today and fell asleep.  When she woke up, she was running a slight fever but I gave her some medicine and she felt better shortly thereafter.  I needed to go to the store and she wanted to go with me and she PROMISED me (why it required a promise, I have no idea) that she would be good if she could go with me.  I had intended on taking her anyway but it was nice to know she was going to be good. 

  We went and picked up a few things I needed for dinner tomorrow and the plan Chewlee and I made was to color and decorate the eggs after I put all the groceries away.  When she had finally finished eating her popsicle, we started dying the eggs.  She picked the colors….pink, blue and green.  I was glad because the other tablets wouldn’t dissolve even in warm water but those three colors worked.  I added the vinegar for *vibrant* colors (what a crock!) and then we started putting the eggs in one at a time.  That, however, didn’t work for Chewlee (too slow) since they needed to sit in the solution several minutes to get a lot of color.  So then it became two at a time.  We did more pink (of course) than any other color and green was the least.  After they were rinsed off and let dry on paper towels, Chewlee got to work on the stickers.

  I was so very careful to boil the eggs gently so the shells would be intact.  Well, let me tell you, she did more damage on the shells than if I had just thrown the eggs into wildly boiling water.  But, she had a solution.  She covered the dents in the eggs with stickers.  Later she told her mother she had fixed the eggs with sticker bandaids. 

  I had bought Chewlee a Kai-lan book at Walmart that Chewlee wanted and I was shocked to find out that the Princess had no clue who Kai-lan was.    She said to me in an almost snooty way that *at their house, they only watch Disney dvd’s and Sponge Bob*.  I told her she would approve of Kai-lan because they cover such issues as hitting and throwing temper tantrums.

  I found out that the eggs stay here because tomorrow the Princess has plans to hide (or for me to hide, I’m not sure) the eggs along with some plastic ones that will have either candy or money in them.  Oh goodie!  A  house full of company and an egg hunt indoors by an over-excited and slightly ill 4 year old. 

  Well, I am beat and my mind is tired now.  I’m going to close this for now and just rest up for a bit.  Love you all.  Have a fantastic Easter Sunday.  Hope you at the very least, hear from your family.  If you have guests coming over (or will be a guest), enjoy the company and love. 
  

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