Our children...

Our beautiful Elizabeth Noelle has a tooth!!! It is ever so small and often hidden behind her pretty little tongue, but it is there! She has gotten soooo cute. She is so round and soft and red and soft and kissable! I am thankful that she has been placed into our home, to grace our lives with her sweetness. What a sweet baby she is. Lizzie still isn't crawling forward but she has a frustrating backward scoot. The more excited she gets the faster she goes...backwards, until her cute little lip sticks out and her little eyes fill with tears of frustration that she cannot get her desired object.

Thomas is talking so much. He loves nursery rhymes. I was at Trader Joe's and above the cheese there was a picture of a cow jumping over the moon. I was oblivious to it but Thomas was very excited and started singing "The cow jumped over the moon" "Mommy, mommy there's the cow jumped over the moon". He is very aware of every detail that goes on. Last night we watched Mary Poppins and today he has been singing "Chim-chiminey, chim-chiminey..."

Abbie is more helpful than ever. She is always eager to have her hands doing whatever mine are, unless there is a baby or a camera close by! She is such a girl of initiative. I often feel like I am two steps behind her. Today we picked lavender to put into a pot in our fireplace and then I was doing violin with Jon Joe and she hadn't come around in a while so I went to check and there she was with her scissors in one hand with nearly all the leaves cut off of a fern in the back yard. I told her she couldn't use scissors without asking...When Joe got home he saw that there were ferns and lavender in the fireplace. Oh, that's why she was cutting the fern. I have never met someone with as much drive as Abigail. She can wind everyone up with her squeals and laughter and keep them all hopping with excitement...

Jonathan was thrilled to go swimming with his Daddy and Uncle Fritz and cousin Benjamin at La Jolla cove. Uncle Fritz told us that you could see the fish if you swim with goggles. With great delight we've savored the memories of floating with orange Garibaldi and other fish all around. The other children enjoyed catching handfuls of hermit crabs!