Easter Sunday

What a busy day it was to be;

The day started with an exchange of Easter Eggs before going to church. There was a lot of chocolate traded. Mummy was particularly happy as she'd given up sweeties and chocolate for Lent . It was a great service with a performance by the Watoto childrens choir.  Watoto is a holistic care programme that helps orphaned or vulnerable children in Uganda.

It was an amazing and moving performance that Zach and Meghan really enjoyed. Maisie was totally mesmerised by it all. It was a very noisy start to the day but Maisie took it all in her stride.


More information can be found at http://www.watoto.com

Then it was back home for a quick change as Aunty Cat had another outfit for Maisie especially for Easter;

"What's up Doc?"

"That's enough photographs thank you - let's go for dinner"

Aunty Rhona text Maisie while we were all out for dinner to say that she was missing us all that wished that she was with us. We all wished she was there with us too. Dinner was lovely but most of the attention was on Maisie who managed get a seat at the head of the table in her wee chair that she got for Christmas from Aunty Eleanor and Uncle Carl.

Maisie is getting much better at sitting in her chair and can now manage about 5 minutes before getting tired and crotchety.

"wow are you going to eat all that mixed grill Zach?"

After dinner it was off to the Annual Duck race that Daddy runs for all the children in the family. The adults can take the race a bit too seriously. While the children drop the ducks off the bridge at the start of the race as instructed, all the adults launch the ducks as far down the brook as they can. Daddy/Uncle Richard who was standing in the brook to start the race and to make sure that none of the ducks get stuck on the way to the finish line got bombarded by most of them!

Not sure who enjoys the Duck Race the most the children or the (young) adults?

Meghan was obviously pleased with her throw

The brook was running a little faster than usual and Grandpa had quite the job catching all the ducks at the finish line.

As you may imagine there were a couple of ducks that came in ahead of the rest which got disqualified (Grandma Jan and Uncle Alex). The winners of the duck race were Charlie, Callum and Ella (and Meghan).

Some of the winners collecting their prizes

After the duck race it was off up the hill to roll eggs.

Maisie, Ava and Ella struggling up the hill with Kathleen lagging behind

Everyone did a great job of decorating their eggs but there are not any pictures to share as every one was very quick to throw,rather than roll their eggs (the adults set this precedent with the ducks).

We think Gracie threw her egg the furthest, you may just be able to make her out at the bottom of the hill on the left hand side

it was a steep climb back up the hill after retrieving what was left of the eggs 

Then, Charlie and Grace gave Maisie a lovely present for Easter as she's not ready for Chocolate yet;

"Thank you very much xxx."

It was a very busy Easter Sunday and Maisie couldn't wait to get to her bed and recharge her batteries.

Maisie slept very well.