Easter party at school

The comments!  Woot!  Of course I need to get my butt in gear and comment more often too....no more throwing stones in plexiglass Korean apartments.  :)  You know what I should do?  I should have a giveaway.........hmmmmm....what in the world would I giveaway?

The Easter party at Maddox's Korean preschool was....interesting.  Since we had been gone we got a note the day before that said we could send in donations of candy or cake.  I made some brownies and bought a bag of candy and took it in.  The invitation said families were welcome, and to bring friends.  Once we arrived I discovered that their idea of an Easter party is like a cross between a birthday party and Halloween.  Certainly not all Koreans treat Easter this way, but this is how it was at Mdx's school.

All the children had made Easter "baskets" out of cardboard boxes that were decorated with Halloween stickers.  Also, at least half of the children were dressed up in some kind of costume.  They brought all the kids into one of the classrooms to sit on mats on the floor and wait for the Easter bunny.  Mav wanted to sit with all the other children!

He wanted to be with the kids, but he didn't.

Cakes, cupcakes, chips, and candy.  The little boy in the picture is wearing the school uniform- a pink Burberry-Plaid-lined jumpsuit.

Each child got a turn at the egg race.  See the teacher with the witches hat in the background?  Right after the egg race they played "Pin the tail on the donkey!".  

The Easter Bunny made an appearance.  Mdx was not a fan.  You can see her name in Hangul on her box, and the child in the witches dress.

After they each got their picture taken with the Easter bunny they were all lined up and taken around the school, going room to room in a type of trick-or-treating for Easter candy.  

It was certainly a party we will remember forever!  :)  One wonderful thing about this school is how hard the teachers work to plan fun things for the kids to do.  They are always taking them on picnics, or outside to garden, or doing craft projects.  They are also extremely friendly and love to pinch Mav's cheeks and coo at him when I come to pick up Mdx.  It is a great place for her!

A month is good

I think that was a lovely vacation from blogging.  I had to rest my fingers, which were worn down to the bone from the every day posting during Lent.  Which, I have to say- will never happen again.  Especially with the lack of comments I was getting.  It's like putting on a huge show and at the end nobody claps.   (LOL!)  Now, I know Blogger can sometimes act stupid- heck sometimes it won't even let me post or upload pictures when I want to- but there are SO many different ways to comment.......yet people don't.  Not even anonymously.  I don't write for the comments, but it's nice to know people are out there reading, appreciating, having thoughts they want to share- etc.  Okay, off soapbox.  :)  Lord knows if there's a soapbox I can find it.

Moving on.....

We are going to go back and play catch up for a little while.  This is the story of my life (playing catch up....not what is coming up next on the blog).  We went home to the States, and on our flight back to Korea I requested a children's meal for Maddox (which I knew you could do) and a BABY MEAL for Mav!  Did any of you know they have baby meals now?  No one said anything to me about it on my flights back to the States, but I saw them serve different food to some kids down the aisle.  So, a few days before we left the US I called Delta and spoke to their customer service (who were very helpful and friendly BTW), and the lady said "Oh yeah, we have just about any kind of meal you would want, you just have to know to ask for it!".  So there.  Now I know.

Behold, a Baby meal!  This is Japanese Baby food. (we flew from Atlanta to Tokyo)

When we got back to Korea Spring had sprung!  Purple flowers had bloomed everywhere!

Someone had also planted flowers along the side of the road from our apartment into town.