Butter Lamb vs. our Sheep Stuffies!

Mommy's family is Ukrainian and they bless Easter Baskets for Easter! Easter Baskets are full of traditional foods like eggs, cheese, meats, a special bread with raisins in it called "Paska", etc...

All of the foods symbolize things, if you want to read about different symbols of the foods in the Easter Basket you can visit website http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/easter.htm .

One of the items in the Easter Basket is a Butter Lamb. Butter in Ukrainian is called "Maslo".

Mommy has been making her own butter lamb for many years now. Butt, you can find butter lambs in grocery stores around Easter. Who knows, maybe Mommy will buy her butter lamb in the store next year to save time.

Lot's of people always tell her -- that doesn't look like a lamb! You be the judge!

She started her lamb with 3 sticks of butter. She puts 2 sticks for the body, and she cuts the 3rd stick in half. Half the stick goes on top for the head and the other half a stick she used for the front legs to make the lamb longer. You can kinda get an idea from the picture above.


Here is a picture of me (Lassie) watching Mommy form the lamb with a knife. She cuts triangles here and there, and puts those extra pieces of butter for the head or to build up the butt part of the lamb, etc...



Here is the lamb almost done. She put it in the refrigerator at this point because the butter was too soft to work with.


She put a bunch of butter in a dish and took the lamb out of the refrigerator and placed it on top of the dish. Then she put a bunch of butter around the lamb so it wouldn't fall off the dish.


Mommy didn't rotate this picture. Lazy!!!! Here you can see she takes a fork, and pokes it up and down to make the wool part of the lamb.


Here is a picture of Benji watching Mommy when she was making the wool of the lamb.


Mommy put M&M's for the eyes and nose and here is the finished lamb! Mommy's lamb in on the left and she helped touch up the lamb her oldest niece made. (That's the one on the right.) We don't think those look like lambs, Mommy!









We decided to show Mommy what real lambs look like! So, we pulled out our Sheep Stuffies that make a squeak noise when you squeeze it! Now, those are lambs!!!!


Here's their Easter Basket that they took to church to bless.

(I will show you another picture of the basket in Thursday's post -- the color for Thursday is like a blue and white checkerboard pattern. Can you see what we made that was supposed to be that color? We will tell you what it was in Thursday's post.)

Thanks for reading this post!!! Happy Easter!

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties