Family

We got to see Thomas and his wife Lisa and Lisa's family this Saturday. It was her sister Morgan's high school graduation so Thomas and Lisa had come to visit. It was nice to see where Lisa grew up and to get out of the city and see some of my family! We'll post some photos as soon as Thomas emails them-HINT HINT... Sorry to be short on posts and emails-been busy as ever, but I figure short's better than nothing :) Hope all of you are doing well, Stallings, Herbts, Kurusingas, Paces, Toras, Zwhalen's, Hoffmans, Collettes, Morgans, Foggs and many others-I wish I had more time to look at blogs. My kids are keeping me soo busy, especially living in a smaller place now we try to get two walks/parks in a day. Anyone who has advice on dealing with a 2 year olds meltdowns without loosing your temper would be appreciated! Time out is hard since Mere flails a lot and no longer has her room she can go to to cool down...

Hello!

We are settling in well with Saki's parents and enjoying the green foliage after soo many years in CA and UT desert. There are some nice parks here and even just going for walks with Mere is fun-looking at all the neat houses or little stores on main street. I think of you Camille-all the architecture. Saki got to dance again to at a church Luau and another one in a couple weeks, so it's nice he gets to use his talents in dancing again :) Still job hunting...

10 months

Glenn is now ten months old! He has 6 teeth with 8 coming in and at his Dr visit we found he is 21 lbs and 14 oz and 23 inches tall, if I remember right. He has become a little more clingy over the last month or two, tending to cry if someone is holding him besides me or Saki and wanting to be held more often than before. He is very active and enjoys pulling up on everything and can now climb up onto Mere's toddler bed. He loves the cat and he and Mere interact a lot more now. Mere talks nicely to him, and played peek-a-boo in the car with him yesterday and today, though she does still yell at him to be quiet, sometimes she will say "Glenn calm down." She is good at sharing toys and food, and after a short phase of "that's mine" really shares everything with him or us. She seems to have matured a lot in the past couple of weeks. Happy Mother's Day everyone!

PACKING

Photos my dad took while up here about a month ago

up in Niland near us











my mom's guinea pig

Sourdough turtle we brought my family (Thomas's wedding) from "Boudin" in San Francisco


We are packing up to go to the San Francisco bay, in a couple weeks! As soon as we can finish packing and cleaning...I've actually got a lot packed, it's more just going through things as I pack, with 2 kids clamoring :) Glenn is really growing up, he'll be 10 months end of this week! He seems to understand some of what we say now and is pretty adapt at feeding himself. He likes to drop food or spoons though and look down as if he doesn't get what he just did or how it happens, Mere would just (and still does if you don't watch her) throw food all over, especially off her plate. She is soaking up things like a sponge and knows her colors most of the time and can count to 14 in order. She used to be soley attached to a white bear from nau (Saki's mom) but now attaches to various things, it was a play food doughnut for about a week and a half (thanks Robert), and then about a month of a hideous purple and brown plastic dragon from a happy meal, and today it was a miniature pink tennis racket (from my little ponies mom). It's funny, she often carries them everywhere and sometimes one in one hand and the bear in the other, though we don't take these items out of the house, which luckily she's normally ok with. It's just funny her odd attachment, I hope she's feeling secure at home :) Her favorite book is from the library-Miss Spider's Tea Party. She also enjoys a cat book from my mom (the one with pretty paintings of cats) and the Butter Bear and Cocoa bear book my brother Robert and I had growing up. She is also recognizing that we need to "read scriptures" every evening and really pays a lot of attention to the stories now, really enjoying it. We watched Finding Faith in Christ for Easter and now she often asks to watch the Jesus movie. Dad-what are those ones that are mostly speaking in Hebrew that portray Christ's life, live? Mere is a loving little girl, though she does like test me by sitting on Glenn and the cat and pushing Glenn over when he's standing-but not too often. She really is quite tolerant of her, and I can see her natural womanly nurturing skills showing through. What wonderful kids we have :) I love them so much! I am sooo happy to have Saki back here too, after a week in the bay job hunting etc. Lots of love to everyone.