We were blessed by a neat church service (which I got to sing in the worship band for – yea), and great weather (despite all the worry of rain). The tricky part was that both kids were sort of sick – Max having a fever and chills at the outdoor service (buried under blankets and sweaters and still hot to the touch), and Lucy just screaming like a banshee after a not-long-enough car nap to Grandma Seal’s house. We’re off to the doc tomorrow – hopefully to get some answers about the screaming meemee girl.

But back to the important stuff – He is Risen!

On the first weekend in April, we got to visit with Matt’s sister Katie from MI, and her neat kids Abby-Sue and Alex. What a super fun time all the kids had together! We went to the zoo one day, and then on a train ride in Fillmore to the fish hatchery on another. God blessed us with great weather, in between very rainy days. Wonderful times. 🙂

After
some half-nekked running around the house In
the zoo’s lorakeet hall Toby
and Lucy Lucy,
turn around! Fun
on the Fillmore train Feeding
the fish
Toby and Max

Well, it’s a veritable communication explosion from our dear girl. Here’s some recent talkie-talks:

Wah Happee? (what happened?)
Mo Qui-qua (more tickles)
A-B-C-D (she starts the song)
Suh-pidah (spider – the itsy-bitsy kind)
Bye-bye Daddy, Bye-bye Momma (when either of us are leaving, she tells us goodbye with no problem!)
Bi-Birr (Big Bird)
Elmo
I Luu (I love you)
Burderr (brother)

If you begin a song like ‘Amazing Grace’, ‘Redeemed’, ‘My God is So Big’ and others, she will finish the end of the line. So you sing ‘Amazing’ and she’ll say ‘Gace!” Max used to do this too – it’s so precious.

Without any direct teaching of this, Lucy walks around and cherishes her 2 baby dolls, Susie and Anna. She wraps them in a blankie, she gives them sips from a dollie bottle. Amazing!

But this is certainly a learned behavior – she’ll take one of our pool noodles (that double as swords) or a stick outside and run towards us and yell ‘AAAAAAAAAAAA!’ Then she’ll (quite gently) ‘stab’ us in the side. Can you tell she has an older brother? We’re trying to get her to NOT do this to the dogs. 🙂