Easter Egg Hunt/Egg Dying Fiasco

Okay, so I'm FINALLY caught up on my blogging. Every year, Rhett's parents throw an Easter Egg hunt for all the grandchildren and some of their cousins on the other side (if they live around here). It's usually in their back yard, but whether is something to be desired right now in Utah. We went from 70 degree whether to SNOW, sleet, and rain. So instead of having the hunt outside we did it down a hallway and in classrooms at a church ward building. it was fun and I was glad because I could let Rhett get down and crawl without him getting muddy or wet.

Just as a side note, the very FIRST egg he found was a real egg... a real egg, a 1 year old and an EMPTY plastic Easter basket are NOT a good combination! The poor egg took a few battle wounds....

Rhett found some plastic eggs -- they were MUCH safer than the real eggs -- although, this one in particular he figured out how to crack open... this egg was found near the end of the hunt and he was pretty much done looking after he figured out there was candy inside -- he was more interested in his loot and getting at the candy that he figured was in the eggs!

At first, I don't think he knew how to react after all the candy spilled out onto the floor. I think it was a little unexpected to him. But he quickly recovered and it was a race to see if mommy could pick up the candy faster than Rhett could EAT the candy!

He found a blue bunny in a plastic bag (because the hunt was originally planned for the sometimes soggy whether of outside during spring).

The very first thing that Rhett found was a blue bunny sucker

At the end of the hunt, I asked some of Rhett's cousins to watch him so I could help recover objects from the hunt that hadn't been found since I had helped hide them. The cousins did such a good job watching Rhett... this is what I came back to -- blue slobber! I guess Rhett had figured out how to get into his candy and discovered a blue robin egg whopper -- After I decided that he wasn't going to CHOKE (although at the end I did become nervous enough not to let him finish it and dug it out from his mouth -- see my blog from earlier this month on my scary experience), I decided to take a picture. I later became confident that Rhett enjoys savoring the flavor of jellybeans, robin eggs, m&ms, etc that he sucks them until they are gone and DOES NOT swallow them whole so I calmed down about this issue :)

This picture really doesn't do the whole experience of Easter Egg dying with a 1 year old justice... so we caught it on video! The two funniest moments are displayed below. Needless to say, we were eating some cracked hard boiled eggs! But in the end, I think Rhett had fun -- or at least John and I had a blast!

The end product! The brown eggs are SUPPOSE to be purple, but obviously I can't mix red and blue food coloring in the right amounts to get purple!