How better to start the week than with some smiles and giggles from baby Lauren?
Hope you have a great week!
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For the past couple of weeks, Maile has been teaching Christine and I a Chinese word each night at dinner. She and one of her teachers decide on the word each day and then at dinner she teaches it to us. Maile LOVES teaching us and it’s a nice way to introduce some Mandarin on the homefront (and get her more comfortable speaking it in front of us).
Tonight Maile taught us her Chinese name. Christine actually worked with her teachers on Maile’s Chinese name last year – but up until tonight we didn’t realize that she knew it. As the video shows, I’m definitely the weak link on the Chinese speaking front…
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Yesterday was a hard day. A day where the place I’m from felt very far away, but even from here you could hear the sigh of sorrow and disbelief. I found myself watching this video of Maile and wishing we could all see the world with her wonder and joy. Or feel the world in a way where our biggest fear was that the wave would come in a little too fast and get us all wet.
It pains me beyond belief that there are children now that have already lost that wonder and joy. That fear much more than the cold water rushing up the sand.
Those are all the words I have for now – I imagine someday I’ll have to find some more to attempt to explain to Maile and Lauren. For now, Christine, Maile, Lauren and I are sending our love back east…
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As Daddy has been telling you, I’ve been in DC all week with Mommy, Daddy and Maile. It’s been fun, but I’m a growing girl and I don’t have time to just lounge around. I told my Mommy – no slacking on tummy time just because we are in the nation’s capital!
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Last year, I taught Maile Roadhouse Blues in honor of a good friend of mine that passed away. Saturday was his birthday and as I do every year, I spent the day with Maile. (Next year we’ll get Lauren involved too.) We had a lot of fun and I decided to teach her another of his favorites, Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne…
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Maile is an old pro at March Madness brackets – she’s already filled out 3 of them (2010, 2011 and 2012). Tonight she filled out her 2013 bracket and for the first time, she wrote in her picks all by herself! She can’t ready yet, so I read each team name and then she picked who she wanted and wrote in the first letter or two of that team’s name. We had a blast doing it.
I was most happy that she recognized Duke without prompting and took them all the way to the Championship. Her Final Four is: Duke, Belmont, Michigan (that will make Papa Mike happy!) and Davidson. She went on an “M” run in the South and East regions taking Michigan, Minnesota and Montana to all make the Elite Eight.
Here’s her completed bracket:
Maile's 2013 Bracket
BTW – It really is incredible to see how much progress Maile has made with her writing in just a year. If you didn’t click above already, definitely click over to see her 2012 bracket. Pretty cool to see that she actually writes letters now. Time flies…
(PS – Don’t worry, we’ll get Lauren involved next year. Maile was already 8 months old for her first March Madness. At 10 weeks, the best Lauren could do today is spit up on the bracket. Hmm, maybe we’ll try that tomorrow 😉
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Lauren is two months old today and she’s been working hard on her first real (e.g., non-gas-induced) smile…
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Christine has been really good at sending me little videos and photos of Lauren and Maile when I’m gone at work. I love them. (Although I must admit they make me want to get home just as quickly as I can!)
Maile Girl and Lil' Lauren clowning around!
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