It's been a while, but we're still here. The past month I haven't taken many pictures, but we've enjoyed lots of family time. Yep, I missed posting on the big day that was Anna's anniversary of coming home. I guess that has been my biggest hurdle in getting back to the blog. I know I was supposed to post lots of cute photographs of our first day back and then some from a year later, but really, the time just got away from me. Since my last post, we've enjoyed Christmas and New Year's festivities, birthday parties, a trip to Leavenworth for skiing, Quest, the Big Show, visits from out of town family, the Festival of Lights and both Brian and I have been carving out some time for a little extra exercise.
Ernie is really starting to read. He's been reluctant to spend any time actually reading himself, so I took a cue from the potty training handbook, and motivated him with a few m n m's each time he read a book. Nothing like a little bribery to get your kid reading. I wonder how long I'm going to get use such a small reward for such a huge accomplishment!
Anna is talking like crazy. Some days, she'll walk up to me a spout off entire sentences in baby babble, then look at me expectantly or waggle her eyebrows at me. She is using too many words to count. And she has just refined the word milk from "mup" to "milt." Its hard for me to believe she is speaking better than some kids her own age when she had a 4 month deficit of English to begin with. It makes me think they must have really been talking with her when she lived at House of Hope, even if it was Amharic.
The festival of Lights, Ernie's preschool winter performance, is definitely deserving of its own post, so I'm going to delay a little until I can get Brian to create a video for me. There's just no way of describing it that comes close to seeing actual footage from that night. Here's a teaser: Brian was laughing so hard that the camera was shaking as he tried to capture Ernie singing.
Here are some pics to enjoy:
Ernie on the podium at the Big Show
Brian, Anna and Ernie goofing around as usual
Anna enjoying the view in Leavenworth
1 comment:
Welcome back! I've missed you. I can't believe how big Miss Anna is getting. And Ernie reading for M&Ms is great...you're right, that probably won't suffice for long!
I love the babble sentences that make perfect sense to them. I can understand about 75% of what Mari says but watch out if I don't understand the rest. She gets so mad and them eyebrows say it all! I, too, am amazed by the language skills. I floored her new daycare teacher (she moved into the 2s a little early cause they "ran out of things to teach her" in the toddler room) when she was talking about how well Mari's language skills are and I said "yeah, and English is her second language!" It's kind of fun to mess with people that way! But, in all seriousness, it is obvious that our kids got some major nuturing and one-on-one time before we got there...no way you can argue with that. Kisses to Anna from Mari!
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