Humpty Dumpty

It turns out we could put Humpty Dumpty back together again. We used a bandaid.

In honor of my nephew's birthday, we made cascarones, which are hollowed out chicken eggs filled with confetti used in the Mexican culture to bring good luck. They are also used in the Japanese culture, but they are filled with coins.

I poked a hole in the bottom of 12 eggs using a chop stick. Some people recommend making a pin hole in the other end and blowing out the insides. I wasn't thrilled about putting my mouth on an egg, which gives new meaning to suck an egg. I used the chop stick to scramble the egg enough so it slid out of the chop stick hole. I didn't want to waste the eggs, so I put them through a sifter to catch the egg shells. We made yummy scrambled eggs.

After the eggs were washed and dried, it was time to decorate and fill. We cut paper for confetti, and cut the sticks off of Dum Dum suckers. We carefully put a sucker in each of the eggs surrounded by the confetti, which eliminated any rattling. To seal up the hole we glued tissue paper to the bottoms.

The fun part was making the faces on the eggs. Graham was a little too heavy handed and broke a couple, but nothing that wasn't fixed with a bandaid.

The boys didn't participate in the throwing and smashing of them because they were sent to my nephew for his birthday. I was a little relieved they didn't because it could be confusing about which egg is okay to smash and which isn't. The Mexican tradition is to smash them over someone's head for good luck. Right now I have all the luck I can handle.