Mother's Day

I'm not so timely with this post, but Happy Mother's Day to any moms who might be reading this!  What I wanted for Mother's Day was pictures together as a family.  We have a nice, giant frame we received as a gift for teaching the English Corner from the hospital.  It's a picture of James and me superimposed over a grasslands scene and the hospital with a poem.  It's was a nice gesture but not exactly the thing we want hanging over our couch. 

 So, in order to use the frame, I wanted to take some photos we could get printed for the frame.  We took a local friend to take the pictures.  We should have taken another to help get an infant and a toddler to look at the camera at the same time.  We took some ok pictures, but not any great ones.  Here are some of the best for your viewing pleasure.

I don't have the words to express how great being mom to Catherine and Ann is.  Catherine is at a stage where we see her learning to do some many new things everyday.  She LOVES to help with the  laundry, and mostly, it is actually helpful.  If I sort the piles, she loves to carry them from the hallway and fill up the washing machine with the dirty clothes.  Next Mother's Day maybe she'll be able to reach the buttons.  :)

Ann is slowly showing more of her personality.  She is active like her big sister, but seems to love to snuggle much more than Catherine did.  She smiles, giggles, and coos, and no longer stays in one place.