HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! I wish we could've been with you on your birthday. I hope Dad and Zach were good to you!
Today was a beautiful day in Virginia. One more week 'til Easter...wow!
The kids got to go traipsing around the ball field for quite a bit with Uncle Mike and went straight down for a nap when they got home.
Then Natalia and I went to an Easter Pageant with Denise, and Jorge's parents. The show was awesome...Immanuel Bible Church puts on such a great Easter pageant...if you're ever in town while that's going on, I would highly recommend it.
The kids got to go traipsing around the ball field for quite a bit with Uncle Mike and went straight down for a nap when they got home.
Then Natalia and I went to an Easter Pageant with Denise, and Jorge's parents. The show was awesome...Immanuel Bible Church puts on such a great Easter pageant...if you're ever in town while that's going on, I would highly recommend it.
Every day Nico surprises us by blurting out a real, honest-to-goodness word here and there. It's amazing how one day he doesn't know a word, and the next day he's saying it like he's been saying it for months. He even looks at you like, "duh!" when you get all excited about him saying something discernible. He's become quite the charmer...in the elevator, at the salon, in the stores...I think we're in trouble with both those kids!
Natalia's reading gets better and better each day. She's so proud of herself--and so are we! She and I are working on a Snow White book, of which she's already read 5 pages. My! How her world is about to change...the power of knowledge, adventure, and dreams right at her fingertips! (So many of us take it for granted.)
It was great to see JB and the rest of the gang last night. Hopefully we'll see more of them through the summer...we had a blast!
Jorge has been working his butt off, but we're hoping it pays off with a nice long weekend at the end of May. We are looking forward to the Courtney reunion in the Atlanta area. Can't wait to see everybody again...and to meet the folks I haven't had the opportunity to meet yet. I'm so excited!
Well, no new pictures today...camera's still on the fritz. BUT -- I did find a beautiful picture of my Mom on her birthday "a while back." (I don't know who she was pregnant with in this one...maybe it was Chad, as his birthday is in June and she looks pretty pregnant.)
Love to all!
Love,
Mandy
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
~Norman Cousins
