EASTER!

Happy Easter! Josiah and Evie Joy had a fun packed weekend celebrating with local friends!
Saturday we had our "normal" English Corner students over for an Easter Party. We taught them how to dye Easter eggs!

Below, Josiah is giving everyone some candy :)

Easter morning the kids were so excited to wake up to Easter baskets! Last year we didn't do Easter baskets- since we aren't in America, they really didn't know they were missing out :) But this year Mimi sent us some stuffed monkeys and candy, Karissa and Alison sent some Super Hero toys and a Boz book and Chanse sent some bags and cards so we threw in a few eggs filled with candy and found some baskets at the wholesale market AND we had Easter baskets! Josiah woke up first and he was so fun and excited especially about the Super Hero toys and Lightning McQueen bag! He couldn't wait for Evie Joy to get up. He kept asking to get her up! It was so cute! When she did he told her about all the fun stuff in her basket and so she came out...and guess what, she was most excited about the candy! haha! gotta love how unique and different they are...one loves the toys and the other loves the sweets!

yup this is them Easter morning...this is what they slept in, ha...they got in bed really late since we had a party the night before so we didn't worry about changing their clothes!

We really enjoyed our Easter worship service...our Bible story was actually on the call of Abraham since we are going through the Desiring God Kindergarten curriculum now...we love singing "Lord I lift Your Name on High" "The Bible Bop" "God of Wonders" "Hosanna"- these are some of our favorites these days! We even learned a verse in Chinese! "Bie pa, Wo yu ni tong zai!" meaning "Do not be afraid, I am with you!"

the evening of Easter we had a few local families over for Easter dinner! Mommy's teacher and son came, our friend John, Chris and her parents, our friend Winona and the Ayi that has a shop we go to everyday :)

playing baseball with Ge Ge with balloons and a shovel!

Playing with Resurrection Eggs with friend Chris!

While the big people watched the Passion, we played rice and beans...look at this mess...

dying Easter Eggs! Yes, Evie Joy wanted to wear her vest of many colors over her Easter dress?! She's a hoot!

Handsome Josiah (thanks to MiMi) decorating his Easter Egg!

Our Easter celebrating is not quite over, tomorrow we will hand out eggs filled with candy to all our 70 classmates and give gifts to our teachers!

The kids loved hosting people. Today Josiah said "Mommy, Happy EAster! can we have friends over today?" haha, love him!