Happy Mother's Day

Claire

Well I didn't get a picture of their outfits this week but the first picture is one from last week's poke-a-dots that was still fun! Claire sometimes asks me to get her a computer when I tell her she can't play with mine, so I taught her how to pull up the keyboard on her iPad and now plays computer sometimes. She likes finding the emoji pictures and showing me all the cool items, it is like a treasure hunt for her and its fun to help her learn some more words she didn't know before like kiwi and mango in the fruits. Shay came up with a new game that Claire adopted with more excitement that brings leaves into my house...yay...but they like collecting the colorful ones off the ground that are still there and bringing them into the playroom. 

Shay

This little girls just loves olives! And as you can see in her picture, is testing out new smiles for the camera...or maybe there is something in her mouth still. Either way, she is cute and I think she was trying to put them on her fingers so I helped her and it made her very happy. This past week was kinda odd for her because she fell asleep on the couch twice and the first time was right before Chris and I went on our date. When I tried to move her she woke up and then didn't nap for the rest of the day! Next time I let her sleep on the couch as I snuck away. She got a hold of my phone and took 29 pictures of the ceiling and one of her hair so I threw that in the mix since she loves seeing herself on the screen of a phone.

Park

The new friends they find at the park each time we go it really entertaining. This week they were playing for about 2 hours with them and helped build castles, played follow the leader, hide and seek, and tag. It was very fun and I'm excited the older girls that were there had fun even though their age difference was so much. The days I drive Chris to school and then go to the park, we spend a lot of time there waiting until we can go pick up daddy. There are other days that we try to only stay for a little since Claire rides her bike and if she spends a lot of energy there she won't make it the whole way home without getting tired. Altogether we have a great life here and there are many parks we have visited after being here for 10 months.

Date Day

I put this section at the end because not everyone will make it all the way down here and I wanted to put this memory and glimpse into our lives in. We don't get to go out on dates much because of COVID-19 restrictions, being on a tight budget from Chris being back in school, and not knowing too many people in this area to watch the girls. Now recently we have had many offers to watch them and have been meaning to get out but we finally got the right motivation and and incentive. A Mother's Day gift card and a plea from our new adopted grandma to spend time with our girls made this date happen. We went out during lunch to avoid large crowds to a very yummy Korean BBQ place I've heard great things about since moving here. Luckily we know how to make every night special between us and even though we don't go out on a 'date' very often, we are constantly dating each other.