eating eggs

Lots of eggs that is...we have been blowing eggs left and right- and not just chicken eggs.. duck eggs too! And let me tell you...duck eggs require lungs of steel.  All of course for the sake of decorating!  So far we have decorated our eggs with bits of tissue paper and watered down glue...with a little fairy dust (glitter) too.  Below you can see them nestled in our grass easter basket we made a week ago.  Which was also super easy...just soak some wheat berries in water over night and then plant in a basket...presto...a super sweet easter basket (sans plastic grass)!

aaron attempting to blow a duck egg

let's be clear...I am the one with steel lungs...(even with few embarrassing & stupid years of tobacco use)

Isabelle and I have started to go to a new waldorf inspired home school group once a week (maybe more on that later) and this week I led....so I blew duck eggs for the masses and the tissue paper decorating was a great success for a group with small fingers.  And don't worry...we didn't waste one egg...they were all eaten in frittata, baked goods, and in every which way I could think.  Just getting us ready for in a few months when our ladies will be producing way more eggs than we can possibly eat I suppose.  And speaking of ladies...a few glamour shots of the girls:

Isabelle has named them "all" cinderella... which amazes me because we loaned a version of cinderella from the library months ago and she has never once talked about cinderella until now...

Isabelle is really into having her face painted lately (notice the enhanced eye brows...)

(we use the Lyra face pencils)

we believe we have a mix of barred rock, araucana, ri red and maybe a maran...
they came from a friend who got 25 "rainbow layers"
*we were also able to replace the one we lost...fingers crossed the rest will live!

and then there is sid...waiting ever so patiently for us to let him have "his snacks"...