Milestone Catch-Up: Easter Fun (cont.)

Easter Sunday
We spent Easter Sunday afternoon with some wonderful friends from church. We made some springy sugar cookies to share.

The kids hunted for their Easter baskets before church.

Hand puppets were a big hit!

We had a great time in the yard on a surprisingly nice spring day!

Mom didn't think to bring play clothes. Oops!

Egg hunting fun!

 Even Channah got in on the action

 Sweet friends

 

Milestone Catch-Up: Easter Fun

Despite a freezing cold Easter season, we had several fun Easter-related outing this year. Here are some of the highlights:

 

 

Church Easter Egg Hunt

Our church hosted a community Easter Egg Hunt event this year for the first time. The kids had a fantastic time with all the various activities, despite the need for winter gear.

 

The kids all bundled up and ready for the party

The bubble station was a huge hit! (I can't believe I don't have a picture of Benj here. He seriously would have spent the whole day at the bubble station. Finally I asked the adult at the station pointedly, "Isn't there a time limit?" ;) )

 

The face painting station required some coersion, but the kids finally consented. 

 

 

 

 

We finally got to the egg hunt. They hunted for eggs labeled with letters that spelled out "Happy Easter." 

 

 

 

 

 

The good ol' egg on a spoon race. We told Leila she couldn't hold the egg ... so she just cupped the spoon with one hand and held it against her body. Creative! :)

 

 

One sack racer needed a little help from Mima.

 

 

Ressurrection Eggs

One of the highlights of our Easter season is always talking about the Easter story using symbols of the Passion week.

 

 

*More Sparkles*

Well, it's that time in sweet little Channah's life; that time when we set aside all parental compassion and celebrate (the survival of) the first year of our girls' lives by subjecting them to torture in the form of an ear piercing gun. It is tradition (see here and here) after all.

The unsuspecting victim, belly full of MacAllister's macaroni & cheese and applesauce, smiles sweetly for the camera.

She begins to grow suspicious as a stranger comes at her with a purple marker.

And why is Mama holding my head like that? This is all very strange.

 

Waaaah! What did you do that for, you mean lady?!

 

Oh, but you look so pretty, baby girl. :)

Back to her cheerful self.

 

Milestone Catch-Up: Talia Turns 6

We made it! We are officially on summer break!

 

To celebrate I have a series of posts planned to catch up on some of the major milestones of the past few months, beginning with Talia's 6th Birthday.

 

I love this shot from the morning of her actual birthday. She is enjoying her cinnamon roll with rainbow sprinkles to the fullest. :)

 

For her party this year, she had her first sleepover. We had a great time making & eating pizza, watching the newest Tinkerbell movie, eating cake, and of course, whispering and giggling until waaaaay too late at night. :)

 

Here are a few of the highlights:

The girls with their pizzas 

We attempted to construct a magical sleepover tent (which ended up falling down, bit by bit, over the course of the evening... oh well :) ) 

Talia requested a Tinkerbell & Periwinkle cake 

 

What's a sleepover without fancy manicures?

And fancy hairstyles

The girls all swapped princess pjs

Each of the girls received a pillowcase with a note written by Talia, but what she didn't know was that she was going to have one too, with notes from her friends

 

In bed, but "too excited to sleep" for another couple of hours. The last holdouts didn't fall asleep until midnight (and were up by 7:00)!

 

After the girls left the next morning our whole family took naps. What a fun (although exhausting) introduction to the magic of sleepovers. I'm sure it was the first of many!