Passover '07: in pictures
First, may I present you with a picture of this thing that shows up on the floor sometimes at M's:
M thinks it's some sort of fluffy pillow with a handle. I think it's a floor otter. Tell us what you think it is in the comments! :D
Now, Pesach.
Grandma took K on a long aimless meander "hike" with the neighbors. K is still going to marry Riley, but she allows that he's going to have to stay home with the kids because she's going to be too busy working in the hospital. Riley's fine with that, as long as he can have "two wifes".
Grandpa, M, and I cooked.
Dad fried the chicken and made his hearty matzo-ball soup. Gee, Dad sure likes to cook!
I chopped lots of things: apples and walnuts for the charoset, onions and stewed apricots for the chicken sauce, root vegetables galore for the kugel. Watch my shoulder as I chop!
Maria zested a lemon, directed kitchen traffic, and washed dishes. And danced with me to delicious Feist. And took pictures of everyone but herself.
After Mom/Grandma and K got home, they cooked too. As is her wont, Grandma/Mom made a Fruit Dessert. Look how relieved she is to see a food processor in the tiny kitchen!
And of course, K's job was to make the vegetable kugel...
...and set the Pesach table...
...and as the youngest person, per the Family Tradition, cut out the shank bone on the Seder plate...
...and even smiled toothlessly for a picture afterwards...
...and got the first crack at the cobbler!
Also, she got to crash the neighbors' birthday party and jump on the moonbounce for half an hour, and to force everyone to hide and find the afikomen in turns. With Grandpa's help, she opened the door for Elijah, who was apparently in a mood to pre-party before Tuesday's main Seder festivities. And she managed to get out one of the Four Questions, despite her sudden apprehension about her part in the meal. ("She talked about little else since her last weekend here, and she couldn't quite get her mind around why she had to ask questions that she - purportedly - "knew the answers already.") As the only one who couldn't read the Haggadah or follow the song lyrics, she still felt pretty overwhelmed by the whole different-ness of the eve, though she got more involved in it than last year. She even made up "new Passover traditions" like dipping matzah about 15 times and blowing raspberries on everyone in sight. Try these new traditions at your Seder: it's an lol riott!!
P.S. Can't get enough otters? Click here! AND HERE OMG IT IS TOO CUTE EVEN FOR GROVER!!!
M thinks it's some sort of fluffy pillow with a handle. I think it's a floor otter. Tell us what you think it is in the comments! :D
Now, Pesach.
Grandma took K on a long aimless meander "hike" with the neighbors. K is still going to marry Riley, but she allows that he's going to have to stay home with the kids because she's going to be too busy working in the hospital. Riley's fine with that, as long as he can have "two wifes".
Grandpa, M, and I cooked.
Dad fried the chicken and made his hearty matzo-ball soup. Gee, Dad sure likes to cook!
I chopped lots of things: apples and walnuts for the charoset, onions and stewed apricots for the chicken sauce, root vegetables galore for the kugel. Watch my shoulder as I chop!
Maria zested a lemon, directed kitchen traffic, and washed dishes. And danced with me to delicious Feist. And took pictures of everyone but herself.
After Mom/Grandma and K got home, they cooked too. As is her wont, Grandma/Mom made a Fruit Dessert. Look how relieved she is to see a food processor in the tiny kitchen!
And of course, K's job was to make the vegetable kugel...
...and set the Pesach table...
...and as the youngest person, per the Family Tradition, cut out the shank bone on the Seder plate...
...and even smiled toothlessly for a picture afterwards...
...and got the first crack at the cobbler!
Also, she got to crash the neighbors' birthday party and jump on the moonbounce for half an hour, and to force everyone to hide and find the afikomen in turns. With Grandpa's help, she opened the door for Elijah, who was apparently in a mood to pre-party before Tuesday's main Seder festivities. And she managed to get out one of the Four Questions, despite her sudden apprehension about her part in the meal. ("She talked about little else since her last weekend here, and she couldn't quite get her mind around why she had to ask questions that she - purportedly - "knew the answers already.") As the only one who couldn't read the Haggadah or follow the song lyrics, she still felt pretty overwhelmed by the whole different-ness of the eve, though she got more involved in it than last year. She even made up "new Passover traditions" like dipping matzah about 15 times and blowing raspberries on everyone in sight. Try these new traditions at your Seder: it's an lol riott!!
P.S. Can't get enough otters? Click here! AND HERE OMG IT IS TOO CUTE EVEN FOR GROVER!!!