Talking up a storm

Lately JoAnn has been talking a ton and picking up new words just about everyday. Since we live so far away from family, every few days I try to go through pictures of everyone and have her point out different people. So far the only ones she has consistently been able to point out every time are my parents and Daniel's parents and recently she has been repeating me when I say "Grandma" and "Grandpa" and "Lola" (tagalog for grandma). I have been meaning to get a video of it for a while now, but soccer started and I have been coaching for the last couple weeks so my to do list is getting a little long. Anyway, I finally got it on video this morning so here it is...




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In addition here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks...

I am not sure why she did this, but she was playing in her room the other day and came out with this on her head. It is a piece of the giant puzzle floor mat we have in her room.


This is from last week when we went out to eat with Mylene, her daughter Yannah, and her mother Tita. Mylene was one of the first Filipina women I met. She worked for us for a couple years and unfortunately now that she doesn't work for us, I don't see her as much as I would like. So in an attempt to spend some more time together we took them out to eat the other night. We went to a Chinese restaurant and when we asked them if they like Chinese food, they all said they had never tried it before. I don't know why, but that seemed really strange to me. Maybe it is because there are so many "Filipino" foods that I would actually consider Chinese. Anyway, they loved it and we had a good time catching up with them.