First Easter

Happy Easter, everyone! Hard to believe that this time last year I was lying on the couch most of the day feeling very poorly, Today in Maine it's in the 70s, sun is shining and we now have a little boy :) As readers know, we are not renowned for our celebrating... until Raf appeared. So today we celebrated Easter - and tried to do so American style. IN the UK we have lots of Easter eggs, but they are quite different from the ones you get over here, and, much to my dismay, you can't easily get the English kind (think of your favorite type of chocolate bar made into a massive hollow chocolate egg, filled with little of those same choccies). Instead we decided we'd do the more American Easter basket. With feedback from FB friends we got a sense of what goes in such a basket and yesterday we tried to put one together. Raf is a bit small for chocolate, obviously, so we filled a basket with a soft bunny, duck, and a very special yellow frog. We also put in an Easter vest-jumper, some teething biscuits, an apple, banana, a hairbrush and comb. We had a great day! Rich and I also got to go out on our bikes... separately, of course, but we also went on a nice evening walk with the entire crew.

Easter lunch... with Spring like vegetables :)


Raf loves these teething biscuits. Unfortunately it seems as though they might be causing an adverse reaction as Raf has a horrible rashy thing around his mouth. We think it might be these little beggars.

Easter flowers...


Rafi's Easter basket!


Let's check out what's in this basket...


Digging in to his Easter basket.



Such a big boy in his Easter jumper.


His favourtie things? His apple and brush... He managed to pick up the apple with his one hand whilst he held on to see his 'sea spider'.