Greg back from China

Greg is back from China. His trip was good and uneventful as far as the earthquakes and bomb threats. Praise God.

Saturday we are having Ivy's 2nd birthday party and later that evening we are going out to Benihana's for my 31st birthday. I know, one week early but it was the only time we could get a baby sitter. :)

I will post pictures from her birthday next week.

Oh and some sad news...the panda that you see in the picture with Greg, died in the earthquake :( She was 9 years old and her name was Mao Mao.

China

Well...Greg is back in China again. He left on Friday and will return home on Saturday June 21st. This time it is more stressful as the area that he is going is the same that had the earthquakes, after-shocks and flooding. So far he says things are good and look about the same so he doesn't feel unsafe which is great. We just pray for a safe return home and hopefully not another trip for a while. :)

Holding her first baby

Ameris Rayne Rood was born on May 13th. This is the fourth child of our friend's the Rood's. We went to visit them on the 15th to bring cookies and Ivy got to play with her friend Alexandra who is 2 months younger and hold Ameris who was 2 days old at the time. It was very sweet. :)

The Zoo

Ivy, PJ, Jess and I went to the zoo this morning. We had a great time with the kids. PJ was asleep in the car on the way home...and Ivy was asleep within minutes of laying in her crib. It was about 80 degrees and we left at about 1pm. Which is probably good cause around 2-3 is when it gets it's hottest here.

The last thing we saw was a free roaming Peacock. We parked the strollers about 3 feet away and watched the kids with faces of awe. Mouths open even :) Then the peacock charged towards us and the kids...I really shouldn't put the brakes on the stroller. (All is good he didn't charge far it just scared me) :)

Thought you might enjoy some pictures...







P.S. Aren't you excited I am blogging again? Our new camera is awesome so look forward to seeing more blogs from me often. :)

Pretending

Ivy has started pretending this month. She gets a towel and wipes her bears nose or she hugs and kisses us, grabs her purse and phone and tell us she is going to work. :)

I took a picture of her yesterday and it looks like her hair is finally getting some curl in it. When I put it up in pigtails it doesn't just stick straight out.

(The sad thing of this picture is that her favorite movie "Cinderella" is broken. Can't figure out why it won't play. We have been trying to distract her with Ice Age 2 for now.)