Goodbyes
And so it goes here in Kenya, and everywhere in life, that goodbyes need to be said. They are hard, but we look forward to seeing everyone again within the next 6 months, which makes it easier.
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And so it goes here in Kenya, and everywhere in life, that goodbyes need to be said. They are hard, but we look forward to seeing everyone again within the next 6 months, which makes it easier.
And because we couldn't just post video of Maggie and not her little brother, we thought we'd share a couple of Ben videos. He's been sick lately, and not so smiley, but these are from a few weeks ago.
Maggie has a lot of great books. We spend a lot of time reading them. Some of the best of them are true "classics", which I guess means that they're pretty old, and yet still awesome to read.
For Mother's Day this year, I made a video for our moms of Maggie's second year of life...lots of pictures set to music, with a few video clips interspersed. The video ended with a 2 minute clip of Maggie talking over the past year. We thought you might enjoy the talking clip (the whole video is too big to load). She certainly does, asking to watch it by name (apple juice? apple juice? pees, mommy?).
Well, our little girl has completed her second trip around the sun. Maggie turned 2 years old on Sunday. I'm sure everyone says this about their kids, but she has changed SO MUCH this year! Maggie's favorite thing in the world is watching "Bob" on a daily basis (she also likes "M's," her words for M&Ms, any other form of candy, and I like to think Mommy and Daddy, but I think Bob still wins out). We own 3 Veggie Tales DVDs and she gets to pick one to watch every afternoon after her nap. So it seemed only logical that her birthday would have a Veggie Tales theme. I use the term theme loosely. Here in Kenya, it's not like I can run to the party store and pick out cups, plates, and wall hangings in a given genre. So, when I say theme, I mean "birthday cake."