Smiles celebrates her 8-month birthday today. She continues to be a bundle full of joy, giggles, smiles, and mischief. She is a wonderful distraction in the midst of language study! Anna Grace loves army crawling all over the place and is up on her knees quite a bit, though she is not actually crawling on her knees yet. She hasn’t started eating solids, but she loves sitting at the table with us during meals.

In our home we’ve celebrated the changing from autumn to winter. We might still be sweating, but we have “snow.” The kids were really excited to make snowflakes. (The man in the picture below is Yayyi’s husband. Our kids love to visit with Dta when he comes to pick up Yayyi.)