2017 has started wonderfully! After all of our vacations we have slid back into life and its routines!
We are a silly group of people!
Taft has adopted this chair as his walker. He also learned how to climb up into it! He is figuring out new talents everyday! He is at an age of imitation. He will start to swing his arms like our church chorister when he hears music start. He will fold his arms when he notices everyone is praying. He has started giving kisses - big, opened mouth wet ones. He loves to look through books and occasionally he'll let us read one to him. He wants to do what Alyssa and her friends are doing. He is often sad when we can't go outside with the rest of the kids!
Erik and Taft get their best naps together at church.
Alyssa is taking full advantage of her bathroom crayons and long sits on the toilet to practice her handwriting and nice note skills!
In mid February my friend and freshman roommate flew into New Orleans for a visit to Vicksburg to see the LeMontes and us! We took our first trip since living in the south to New Orleans. We visited the WWII museum, ate the biggest donuts I've ever seen (Alyssa's chocolate sprinkle was too chocolatey), had beignets at Cafe du Monde, and took a tour of the cemetery and garden district of New Orleans. Apparently the Creoles don't believe in having exposed gardens, but the English and Americans who settled the area didn't mind surrounding their 10,000 sq ft houses with lavish gardens!
Taft fixed his kitchen sink while we were considering how to repair our leaky bathtub faucet. I think Taft's fix-it job did not take quite as long as the real problem but thankfully both are fixed now.
Yesterday Alyssa ran a 1 mile fun run! She ran it in 11:04! It was her first race that she ran by herself and she said she felt so brave! She had fun and felt proud of her accomplishment when she finished the race!
And again, Taft...this kid! He brings us so much joy!!
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