Messy

What would give my boys colorful hands and messy shirts?  Given that it is Easter time, you'd probably guess dying easter eggs, but even that wasn't messy.

But it's not dying easter eggs, because in addition to colorful hands and messy shirts it also left K's lips green.

and it was a gift from Nana, a gift that I am so thankful she was here to help with, because boy was it messy!

They were colorful bubbles, and they left color on everything - the apartment sidewalk, building walls, faces, hands, hair...this is an activity that would be best done on a hot summer day so messy kids can jump in a pool to clean off afterward, not in a bathtub as that brings the colorful mess indoors.

But despite the mess, my kids (and my mom) had fun making it,

which says a lot for R since he is a kiddo who hates to be dirty.

Nana taught K to blow bubbles

while aunt J stood back, safeguarded from the colorful bubble mess by holding little J

not to worry, the mess came off the important things, the sidewalk outside our apartment however, is currently blue.  We might be the reason they outlaw bubbles here, with all the silly rules I wouldn't be surprised (we have rules that won't allow us to back into our parking spaces...).

Anyway, the bubbles are currently outside our front door, and will probably be put away for safekeeping until weather that permits a kiddie pool arrives.