Easter with the McClains

Easter is kind of a no-big-deal thing at our house. We feel a little guilty making a deal out of it, what since we don't do the church thing, and it's kind of Jesus' day and all. So, we don't really make a fuss about it. With most holidays being commercial these days anyway, we figure we can do the commercial bit and let Collin have that fun of it and explain later, let him decide. We aren't faithless monster-demons, who don't want him to lose out on candy after all. So we do a little basket and this year decided to let him try dying eggs.

That is a mess, my friends. That is a mess. Thank goodness we put out the vinyl super tarp. Collin only managed to spill the dye cups three times. Mommy, thank goodness hadn't showered yet at 3 in the afternoon because she spent all day working on her still, as yet, unfinished paper on crazy topic.

Daddy and Collin had a blast making some kind of ugly egg that Mommy has no heart to eat because she judges books by their covers and even unpeeled, she'll remember that it was ugly on the outside.

He got TWO Easter baskets because Grandpa and Nana Debby sent him a way more awesome Easter basket than the one Daddy and Mommy made for him. Way to show us up, guys! Kidding, he loved it. Hilariously though, in the way kids have a way of frustrating your expectations, I wanted him to go straight for the monkey slippers that I picked. He went straight for the 99-cent sheet of stickers.

Eventually, he got to the monkey slippers; after, I forced them on his feet. Don't they look cute? There was a theme, damn it! Monkey slippers! Monkey stickers! Monkey pencil! Monkey pencil case! Monkey everything! He loved it! Why! Why! Why wouldn't he put on the damn slippers! Kids! Again, stickers reign supreme in this house but at least he's wearing the slippers! And kick two-three-four! All the signs are beginning to add up to something weird here. Strut, Collin. Strut.

It wouldn't be a post without Bryon's behind, would it? But, it is the slippers, the stickers and the behind, all in one picture. Tee-hee.