Adventures, adventures

Life flies fast this year, or at least it seems so. Easter, my favorite holiday of the year past. It was beautiful as expected. Catalina was wonderful, she participated in all our planned events. The tradition is to clean the house spotless and to cook humongous amounts of food. The first part was taken care of for us because of the move to the new apartment. Between work, church service both Thursday and Friday night we did not have time to cook until Saturday morning. So we were ready to be satisfied only with few of the traditional dishes. Somehow, miracles happen at Easter, as we ended with all the good food we had every year.
Part of the miracle was Catalina of course. She did help with many tasks.
She is getting the walnuts ready for the Easter bread (cozonac)

She also took several "beauty breaks", since all cooks have to wear heavy pretty make up. You have to trust me when I tell you that the picture does not do justice to the amount of make up that is here on her face. Or to the amount of time it took to wipe it off her face.

But all the preparations went well.
Easter night came and Catalina was amazing all during the midnight service, talking continuously and getting smiles and compliments from way too many people in church. She kept describing all the steps in the service, how the priest will go outside, how he sings beautifully, how everybody has candles. Yes, she is a smart observant girl, and mommy couldn't be prouder.

Easter day was the same old Easter day type. Good food, in BIG amounts. Good friends, good laughs. Anyone still wondering why Easter is my favorite holiday? Because it's just awesome!
Hristos a inviat!

Life still goes on after Easter too. And for us, luckily, not in a bad way at all. We enjoyed some really nice weather that was perfect for outdoor fun. We have a park nearby that has ducks and geese and a lot of open space. Catalina fell in love with the birds and she wanted to feed the ducks every night. And to pick dandelions.

One of our outings started with a very small fall, that ended with a pretty big boo-boo. Catalina was quite brave for a while, then she kept asking mommy to put "propolis and gabenele" (aka romanian magic vaseline that cure everything from scratches to deadly diseases).

One of the perks of living in a house, is that you have a small patch of grass called backyard. Kids love them, and parents learn to love them also. Where else could we have so much fun?

And when the weather is not friendly, we make do inside the house too. Who said you cannot fish on the carpet?

Catalina was part of nice concert in day care. Week of the youth was recognized as a big event and everybody participated. More or less.

A little nervous, dear?

Pretty girls make life very pretty. And you can just guess how amazing life is with this girl!