Easter Eggs With Margie

This afternoon, after the boys got home from school, Margie undertook a big project with the three bambinos: Rice Crispy Treats made into the shape of Easter Eggs and then dipped in chocolate and sprinkles. I had never heard of this idea, but what a great idea it is! I give Margie a ton of credit for even considering an undertaking such as this. It turned out that the boys had a ton of fun making these. Margie said that they loved rolling the sticky marshmellowy rice crispy globs in their hands and molding them into “eggs,” dunking them into the chocolate, etc., etc., etc. (I can just imagine.) The funny thing is that they really are not too keen on actually eating sweets. So, the fun for them is all in the making of them. Margie said that when all was said and done Owen ate a half of one and Kyle ate none. Meera… on the other hand…. loves sweets. Particularly chocolate. In typical Meera fashion she had no interest in making them, but a lot of interest in eating them. By the time I got home from work Meera was covered in chocolate and she was already making her way through her second rice crispy treat easter egg. She was running around the yard like a little maniac holding a half-eaten handful of globby chocolatey glop up to her mouth and squealing “choc! choc! choc!” (‘chocolate’) The globby thing had pieces of grass stuck to it, dirt mashed into it, and who-knows-what-else. When we went inside Meera’s sugar high quickly deteriorated into a mega-sugar-low as she crashed big-time into a hysteric meltdowny mess for no apparent reason whatsoever (other than the obvious: I don’t think she had ever in her lifetime consumed that much refined sugar in one fell swoop).

I fed her a bottle of cold milk (to try to offset the sugar!), stripped her down, cleaned her up, and tried to stabilize the poor little thing. Don’t worry… soon enough she was just fine, playing on the floor with some trucks, but it was a very early bedtime for Little Miss tonight.