Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day, Daddy!! We celebrated Father's Day as a family yesterday. We couldn't do much since Rebecca is still getting over her sickness. But it was still nice to have some family time. We all took a long nap after lunch. Then in the afternoon we enjoyed homemade coconut cupcakes, picked raspberries from the garden, took a walk (had to stop to see the bells on a church nearby...Rebecca requests that on every walk) and had dinner. Rebecca really enjoyed getting to spend some time outside with Daddy. We've been housebound for quite a few days now, so a little fresh air was nice.

Daddy is such a blessing to us. A wonderful husband and father.  Happy Father's Day!

The Bookworm

Rebecca LOVES to read.  She always has.  She'd be a very happy girl with a new stack of books to read every day or with spending hours in the library every day.  The one thing that amazes us is her ability to sit still and read with us for such long periods of time.  And she listens to every word.  And often memorizes whole books.  We have to keep getting more and more advanced books to read with her.  Rebecca's latest interest is reading Mommy's and Daddy's books.  She decided last week she wanted to read one of the Chronicles of Narnia books (The Silver Chair).  She kept begging Mommy to read it to her.  So I tried...and we are now on chapter 6!  She will sit with me to read an entire chapter at a time.  Without pictures.  With plenty of big words.  She just takes it all in.  And she talks about the story/characters randomly throughout the day, so we know she's listening.  By the end of the day there are always books scattered all over the house...she gets so many out each day.  Who knows, maybe it won't be long before she can read all her books by herself :)

Sugar? What Sugar?

Just checking to make sure the sugar hasn't gone bad, Mom.  I think I need to try a few more bites to be sure.

Not So Fun Friday

This is Rebecca playing around 9:30 on Friday morning.

This is Rebecca around noon on Friday (not easy to get a good picture).

While dancing around and drinking from her water cup Rebecca tripped, landed on the cup face first and put her top teeth all the way through her lip.  It was very bloody and scary to say the least.  Thankfully the bleeding stopped after a couple hours and she seems to be doing fine.  She's been a real trooper, even letting Mommy put ice on it for a bit (getting to watch an episode of Dora helped :).  Hopefully her lip will heal quickly and completely.  For now we're trying to be extra cautious with her so she doesn't fall and break it back open.  You can't really tell from the pictures, but the teeth did go all the way through.  There are two teeth marks in her lip and 2 teeth marks under her lip.