As we got ready for bed this evening, Lilah, I started quizzing you on where things come from. We started with the origin of the wind and ended with “your head” at which point you were unable to give a non-recursive answer.
According to you, Lilah,
wind comes from the sky;
the sky comes from clouds;
clouds come from chickens;
chickens come from barns;
barns come from the ground;
the ground comes from dirt;
dirt comes from doors;
doors come from houses;
houses come from people;
people come from bellies;
bellies come from ur body;
bodies come from germs;
germs come from your head.
It makes perfect sense…except for that part about the chickens……
Well Lilah, coloring eggs is not a tradition in Spain so there are no PAAS egg coloring kits to be had here in Madrid. So your mother spent the week leading up to Easter looking for alternative egg coloring methods. In the end she discovered several sites detailing various methods of using natual dyes.
So the night before easter found us boiling red cabbage (blue), red onion skins (brown) [should have been yellow onions for red/orange but obviously this apparent contradiction caused confusion], Beets (purple) and cumin (yellow). The colors were not as “vibrant” as one would find with PAAS but the process was just as much fun for you. You were not satisfied with one color per egg in the end and most of your eggs ended up a strange brown color. Your Mommy went to great lengths to produce a 4 color egg that turned out rather nice and I just made a blue, purple and yellow egg with various “wax” designs.
The next morning you had yor first Easter egg hunt (along with your first proper introduction to the wonders of Chocolate). You needed little to no help in finding the eggs scattered throughout the apartment (thanks to Mommy ensuring that I was not to tricky with my egg placement). After your nap we made our way out Casa De Campo to try and find an open area for kite flying to no avail. However we did manage to find and ride the gondola at the park. Although we did it completely backwards as we hiked to the top of the hill and rode the gondola down instead of up….
We documented the festivites with pictures and a video*
*long video probably only suitable for grandparents.
