It's Cute Sometimes

Visitors

My highschool friend Angie came to visit me twice, yeah, I'm happy to reconnect, can you tell? Cool thing is we still have so much in common. She loves the Lord, has two great kids, is married and likes to good food and travel. She's great with our kids, and in many ways, it's like there's been no time lost. So, thank you Ang. and Dave for visiting Chicago, we miss ya.

Cool Sky

Stormy night at my house a while back, good night!

Birthdays Past

Walker had a small party at home with a few friends and snacks. He was not happy with the direct attention during the cake presentation but got over it quickly once he started eating cake.









Poppy had a family birthday complete with homemade cupcake tower.





Carys had a small party with some girls from school. She enjoyed having her friends over. We had a ton of crafts, planted some seeds, the girls played Duck, Duck Goose and Simon Says. No one cried and everyone when home with an extra cupcake. Party success.

Ba-na-na

This morning, Walker woke up with his usual hunger. As we were standing in the kitchen preparing to strap into the highchair, Walker pointed to the bunch of bananas on the counter and said BA-NA-NA! I was thrilled! Now, we've not been worried about his speech in particular, but I do think the girls were speaking more words by now. Of course, I shrieked and freaked him out so when I asked that he repeat to Poppy, he just gave his shy grin instead.

Previously, he's clearly pointed to a bird in his favorite book with Poppy, and said clearly BIRD. But has not repeated that with me during reading sessions. He has no problem with the word ball, which when he says it, sounds like BAHL. In fact everything round is a BAHL to Walker.

Today was a very communicative day, he was rubbing his belly for hungry and scratching his hips for pamper change. Plus a few other hand motions I could not quite make out, I have to learn his sign language as well.

Where did Winter Go?

We got i-phones in November and fast forward to April. We have a video function on the i-phone and now mostly send videos to our families via e-mail. It's quick and instantly updates everyone on our goings on. I like this but I'm starting to miss dragging out the camera for those cute shots. It's convenient to take photos and video with the i-phone but the picture quality is better on our big camera. So for a trade off, I guess this has been a bit of an experiment. I can pay to put video here but I'm not sure I want to.

So, I was not sure if I should continue with the blog since we were updating family with video, which was the original reason I created this blog. But I have used this to update old friends and introduce new friends to my family. And as a record for the children, the blog is valuable, since their baby books are hidden in some box somewhere in the basement.

This brings me to updating 4 months. There as been so much activity. Christmas, Walker, Cullen and Carys' birthdays, visits and visitors and Resurrection Day (Easter). Not to mention all the mundane but wonderful growings of Walker and the girls.

So I'll try to slowly catch this blog up to date and continue on for the children who may one day look back at this fondly and share this with their children.

The photos are of Christmas, and Carys and Helen's school Christmas pageants.