Cai is learning...

Cai took his first steps by himself on The First Day of Spring, March 20th, last Friday. It was so fun! He says “Cheese,” it’s so cute and loves waving at people. It’s so funny, he usually waves at people who aren’t even looking at him and says, “Hi!”

We had the best trip up to D.C. for Jarad’s birthday. It was so fun! We went to the Smithsonian for Aviation and Space Flight at Dulles Airport. They have the Enterprise spaceship there. It was so cool! Cai loved looking at all the planes and helicopters. The best part was the guided tour, wow, it’s amazing how many stories that tour guide had to tell! It was fascinating! We went to the Lincoln Memorial and taught Cai how to throw rocks in the Potomac River.

We went to the Temple, which is always fabulous. We also went to Banjara Cuisine (Indian food), it was soo good! This year, we had two weird birthday cakes for Jarad—one was a jello jiggler in the bowl and another was some type of fruit rice cake at the Cuisine (I should have had the waiters take the picture of the three of usJ).

Guess what we found…an R-2 D-2 mailbox! Remember my scavenger hunt for Mailboxes? Fun!

Spilled Milk

Cai drinks from a sippy cup. I hand him the cup while I begin doing the dishes. I’ve been listening to China Road, on CD, it’s a great book by Ron Gifford…all about…China. I am way into it, not really worrying about Cai, when all the sudden, I hear the funniest laugh….coming from his direction. I look over and he’s smashing the top of his sippy cup against the dinning room table!

The biggest puddle of white stuff is all over the table! At first thought, I wanted to say, “Cai, stop.” Which, he’s amazingly good at stopping whatever he’s doing when I say that… But then, I swear I heard my mom’s voice saying, “No use crying over spilled milk! It’s funny Jewelene…laugh!” I exploded with laughter. It sort of surprised Cai, but then he laughed some more. I ran for the camera…enjoy the film!

He loved playing with it, using his hand to create artwork all over the wall, floor—not only the tabletop. My favorite part is when I say, “uh, oh,” picks up his soggy sandwich and plops it back into the milk…and when he looks at his hands like, “What is all this stuff doing on my hands?”

He's growing up so fast! He took his own steps yesterday...to me!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day! No, I don't feed Cai green food all the time...only on special occasions. We tried to make a shamrock necklace, but were lacking some essential things, macaroni noodles being one. So, we glued it on the black sheet. Cai had fun, his writing is on the back side. He's learning. He climbed up next to me while we made cookies, yes, it's the neon food coloring again. We ate potato soup in honor of the Irish...Some of you may be surprised to discover that potato is a root! We went to a cool nusery yesterday, bought these potato starters. See the cool "eyes" on the potato. That is where little potato sprouts will begin to grow. We're so excited for the garden, for the rain to stop and the frost to go away so we can plant and watch 'em grow.