April - and we're growing so darn fast!

This spring is going so quickly! We had a great Easter in March and I still have some photos from that...then, we went to Texas - Julia's frist flight since China. She did great! She was not scared and was natural flyer. Then, we had a very nice visit with our Texas cousins - Julia was very happy to see Kaylee and Ashlyn. She calls her Uncle Rich, Uncle Gitch.

I'll post some pictures - but, it's hard to keep up with all the "latests." Julia loves the Wonder Pets, the Backyardigans, playing outside in her sand and water table, cooking, eating, balloons, gymnastics, make up, singing, dancing, drumming, watching herself on video, princesses (Ariel is now up there with Cinderella), she will wad up a piece of paper, hand it to you and say "happy Birthday," she can count to 5 in Spanish, likes to give out milk in the mornings at school, feeds Leia the cat as part of her chores after school...and is just generally perfect! She still also loves grandfather's roast beef and REALLY enjoys spending time with her grandfather and GRANDMOTHERS! She is spoiled rotten, but very happy and pleasant. Oh, and she likes to get out of bed in the morning and very quietly walks down the hallway to our room (with her hippo, elmo and blanket) and climb into bed (still around 7 am) and watch cartoons in the morning. She is very quiet and usually closes her bedroom door behind her.

Also important to note is that when we order pizza, she eats salad...crazy kid. I mean, she eats some pizza, but prefers a salad (I wish I her her eating habits). She also likes to sit in the driver's seat of the car and pretend she's driving. Her pretending is getting good and she also likes to play doctor (mostly sticking band-aids on everybody and everything), and makes her princess figures go to the ball and stuff like that. No dolls still, but she will bring them out for her tea parties. Puddles are also fun - she likes to jump in them and had a great time splashing in grandma Bonnie's puddles. Then she just started walking up the hill behind grandma's house, too. No worries - no fears...she also came down, too (but daddy was nearby to help.)

We went to the Dutch Apple Theater this past weekend to see Charlotte's Web. She was pretty tired and slept through about half of it, but she really does like the theater. She would clap in between songs.

We're really looking forward to the shore season and the pool and daddy is still trying to get some time to work on the basement (har dto do with a busy schedule and a 2 year old). We'll get there!

Lots of love to all our family and friends.