Chicken pox

Poor Rita! She broke out with chicken pox yesterday. Rita had been a bit cranky most of Saturday. She complained of head ache and sore throat.

Sunday morning Rita was up very early. She was very excited about Easter. She even rolled up her curtain and almost saw the Easter bunny (:-) in the back yard hiding his eggs.

So when midday came illness and lack of sleep made her dose off on the couch. The music didn't bother at all. In fact it was Rita who had "borrowed" Erik's cell phone to play music on.

Lion and Lamb

We had stumpled across this recipe for some neat little Easter cakes. Ellen made this today with Rita and her friend Cecilie. Right now the cakes are sitting on the dining table waiting for Ellen and the boys to return from the movies. Rita and I are having a hard time keeping our fingers from the cakes.

Warhammer

We had the Zuleta boys staying over night during Easter (Rita's Godmothers' sons). Axel got the idea they should play with Erik's old Warhammer figures. The game ended with the decision that we had to make a trip to Copenhagen and get a box with 110 new dwarfs, goblins, trolls and I don't know what. Both boys have now spent 4 days glueing and painting their new models.

Happy Easter

It was a fast paced hunt but the Easter bunny managed nonetheless once again to avoid being both caught and seen. He did however leave a very nice Easter egg. I believe lots of it already has disappeared.

Cyclecross

Before it started snowing in Sweden the kids had found some old bikes. They also discovered a hill - which is a bit steeper than appears on the video. Well, you can guess what happened. They had a lot of fun racing down the hill.

Quiet week

We took some time out of the calendar and went to the summerhouse in Sweden Saturday to Tuesday of this week. Monday it just started snowing. We went for a long walk in the forrest. Axel and Ellen was certain that we had went through the wardrobe and in to Narnia. The landscape was truely magic. When we got back to the house we had about 3 inches of snow on the ground.

Happy Birthday Rita

Can you believe it. 7 years old. Rita had a full birthday package. The day started with fresh baked rolls. The we had all the girls from Rita's kindergarten class for a great birthday bash and ended up with have Farmor, Baba, Merete, Edith, Felicia and the Zuletas for dinner.

Ellen had a usual been creative. This time she had created a Dalmatian. That is - it was meant to be a dalmatian, but once the white icing had come on the cake we couldn't figure out a good way of adding the black dots. So it ended up being a white dog!