Happy Western Christian Easter & Katerina's First Sleepover

Although we don't celebrate Western Christian Easter, we certainly mark the day and wish all of our friends and family who do celebrate today a glorious Easter. We celebrate Orthodox Easter which is on April 27th this year so our forty days leading up to Easter is just beginning. Because we don't celebrate today, we were able to help out a friend whose mother is very very ill and expected to die any hour/day. Phyllis asked us to keep Julianne with us so she could spend the day and night in the hospital with her mother. Katerina and Julianne had a blast. Julianne is so sweet but was missing her Mom as we got ready for bed. I held her close as she whimpered a little until she fell asleep).

A little Easter Egg hunt

Cooking.....what else? Macaroni and cheese!

So angelic

Bunny straw fight! And yes, that is a trapeze between the kitchen and dining area. Doesn't everyone have one there?

Bathtime fun

Thanks to Aunt Susie's gift of crayons especially made for windows (easily removable), we now have artwork on our kitchen sliders all the time. Who needs refrigerator art when you can have window/door art?

One last swing before night night

Although the precipitating factor for the sleepover was not fun as it was due to illness, the sleepover itself was a huge success. Several times during the day/evening, Constantin and I independently thought how nice it would've been if we had a sister for Katerina and shared our thoughts later that evening. However, that ship has definitely sailed. We are just lucky that the ship we caught turned back to port at the last minute!! So we will just have more playdates and sleepovers and possibly get a puppy. Who said that?? Sssshhhh. We're working on it.