Holi

Holi [Wikipedia] is an Indian spring festival of color. You put on some white clothes, you pelt each other with water and powdered dyes, and you get very messy. I think we have missed the last two years, we went when Rebecca was almost 1, and now we’ve taken Penelope when she was also under a year. We always mean to go every year, but depending on the weather the whole thing can be more or less appealing!

Here is Penelope with her first blessing of red. The downside was that although the dye came out of her skin reasonably well, her slight cradle cap was red for a month until I got tired of people asking if she had some horrible skin condition and put some oil on her head to dissolve it. Worked amazingly well actually.

And Rebecca about half way through. I was sort of hoping her hair would stay dyed purple, but it came right out.

It was hard to pick just a few pictures, but in the end I couldn’t resist the baby foot! You can see how grubby Penelope is in the background. I love my messy girls!