Good Friday

It seems strange to call such a somber day "Good Friday." This morning we acted out Jesus being tried before Pilate. That's his hands bound there with the yellow pipecleaner and a orange crown of thorns on his head.
Then He was whipped and beaten by the soldiers.
Then we put Jesus up on a cross, between two thieves. The little people in pink on the right are the women who watched the crucifixion, the green guys in the center are the soldiers who cast lots for His clothing.

At noon we plan to darken the house for three hours, just as the sky went dark during the crucifixion.
Here's a shot of us last night as we were doing the resurrection eggs. We've been doing Easter Mountain in the morning and Resurrection Eggs each evening after dinner. What a wonderful week we've had, focusing on all the events leading up to Easter.


In other news, we are just hoping we get to go to Easter services, since Addie has a cold, a goopy eye that is threatening to be pink eye, and she threw up in the middle of the night last night! We are hoping that the puke was a fluke (ha ha ha!), and we have a prescription for drops for her eye if it doesn't clear up by tomorrow. After all the heart preparation we've done this week, it would be so wonderful to celebrate the resurrection with our church family, but if we have to celebrate at home, we'll be OK with that too.

And in still other news, Scott started waving on purpose yesterday! If he's in the right mood and you wave at him and say hi, he'll put up his arm and wiggle his hand and wrist around. It's just the cutest!