"Oh, the eggs are REAL....."

Today we were extremely traditional Americans and colored Easter Eggs with Calen's friends Aiden and Matty.

How can one little craft make SO much mess...

 

Did you know that coloring eggs is actually the oldest Christian Easter tradition? Apparently they used to color eggs red (symbolizing the blood of Christ) for Easter. 

I always thought it was just something that PAAS egg coloring kit company made up to sell millions of their little kits. 

Look see? We were being a good Christian family today. Though I'm not sure how Christian blue and yellow and purple is.  

Or how Christian it is making little dinosaurs out of the eggs.

Bonus points for having a red one?

Look! He's being a good Christian boy and dyeing it red(ish). (Okay, let's not pretend. The "red" color tab really just turned into hot pink)

Did you also know that apparently some company makes plastic Easter eggs that beep so that blind children can partake in Easter egg hunts? And that the Association of Bomb Investigators and Technicians builds all of these little beeping eggs as part of a charity campaign for blind children?

Doesn't it seem pretty creepy ironic that the International Association of BOMB Investigators and Technicians is building beeping Easter eggs? 

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm....."


Also: Wikipedia is fabulous. Facts you NEVER wanted to know but can't live without. 

Wow, I'm REALLY off track.  

So these dinosaur Easter eggs. Calen and his friends really had fun making them, and once they were done I put them out on display on our dining room table. 


For hours.


Like...ALL day.


And then after dinner came to a terrifying realization. 


"Oh, shit...those eggs are REAL huh?"

They were just so pretty and festive and dinosaur-like that it never really occurred to me that I should, you know, refrigerate them. Though I'm not sure what the shelf life of a hard boiled egg in room temperature is, I'm pretty cautious with eggs. I've gotten sick (horrible, bathroom, both ends sick. More facts you NEVER wanted to know but can't live without) off of eggs that were only expired by two days. 

But I could just THROW THEM AWAY, they're pretty dinosaur eggs!!

Awwww, cute little spoiled hard boiled dinosaur eggs...

So they're in a "special" egg carton, in the fridge. With clear instructions to family members: "Nuclear waste!! Will kill you! Do NOT eat the colored eggs in the cardboard carton. Extremely not safe."

Tomorrow Calen and I will probably use up the rest of the little PAAS color tabs and color more eggs.....and put them in a different carton. (and refrigerate....immediately). 

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