Coloring Eggs
As I child I remember coloring eggs at “Pittsburg Grandma’s” dining room table. We would use wax to make decorations and Grandma would tell us about how they color eggs in Lithuania.
We were too busy on the days preceding Easter to color eggs, so we colored them for family night on the Monday after Easter.
We decided to try an idea that seemed popular on the internet (baking instead of boiling eggs). The kids loaded the muffin for me:
The eggs came out speckled, and a few were cracked. I’m not sure what I did wrong since the internet didn’t mention this happening:
I put them in some ice water:
When I dried them off, all the spots just washed off:
We tried out some new “no spill” containers for coloring eggs:
They didn’t spill, but we also couldn’t get the eggs out of them, so we exchanged them for more traditional coloring cups:
Ila even decided she wanted to try them (which was quite shocking to me). Her method for trying something new is to touch it to her lip multiple times and work up to licking it. I don’t think she got past licking to putting it in her mouth. This picture shows some egg yolk on her tongue which she promptly spit out:
I figured that if she was in the mood to try something, new she should have a tastier option to add to her limited diet, so I got her a piece of ham. I told her that if she ate this little tiny ham cube, I’d give her three chocolate chips. She touched it to her lips:
Eventually she held it in her mouth, but took it back out:
She even placed it on her tongue:
In the end, she couldn’t bring herself to actually eat the ham cube and therefore did not earn her three chocolate chips: