May

Picture #1: I don't know when exactly it happened but I marvel at how grown up Sasha seems to me now. She is almost 3 1/2 and so much more independent than she was even 6 months ago. She loves to make up competetive games with complicated rules, "play track" with me up and down our long hallway, and every evening "play rough" with Dad down in the basement. A girly girl she is definitely not. Her classic line these days is "Tell me a super super scary story" She especially likes tales about wild animals chasing people and bizarre/gory emergency room stories! Dolls. No. Princess stuff. No. Listening to terrifying dinosaur sounds on the computer over and over. YES! She still loves to listen to books and can now read a lot of words herself. Her current favorite book is "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and loves listening to "Peter and the Wolf" in the car.

Picture #2: Phil's parents came out for several days. We went on a beautiful hike along a creek in the Jemez mountains. Sasha promptly fell into the freezing cold creek within the first 5 minutes and refused to wear her wet shoes so had to do the rest of the hike barefooted (did I mention above that she is quite stubborn?) Sadly this area is being completely desroyed by a huge fire even as I type this as you may have heard today on the news.

Picture #3: We rode the "World's Longest Cable Car" up the Sandia mountains in Albuquerque one day with Phil's parents and had a lovely lunch at the crest.

Picture #4: Jack loves his fresh fruits this summer, especially watermellon. What a mess there is to clean up after every meal these days! It is so nice to go out to eat once in awhile just to not have to clean up after everyone. We bought a Roomba on sale the other week. As dorky as it is, it is functional for this time in our lives and Jack is mesmerized by it.