4 months

Heidi is officially 4 months old. She now weighs 13 lbs. 0.82 oz. She started eating rice cereal last week and seems to like it a lot. She's doing pretty well with it even though she does get it all over her face and usually spits a lot out while trying to eat it. :) It's pretty cute. I will put up pics and videos soon. LST is going well. The girls are having a good time with all their readers and the parties are going very well too. We have had a pretty good turnout and everyone seems to enjoy them. Tonight we are having a party with the theme of "Birthday". It should be fun!

I will post some pics of things that have gone on this month:


This is our friend Sophia who did our photos. We went to her birthday party at the beginning of the month.


We had a Liederabend (Literally translated: Song evening) We had about 95 people there, 55 of which were guests)

Here are a couple of short clips from the Liederabend:

Happy Sunday!

Hi everyone! Just thought I would write a short update. We are doing well. Heidi is as much of a joy as ever. Actually, she becomes more and more of a joy everyday! On Friday Heidi rolled from her back to her tummy by herself for the first time! She did it a couple of times. She is really starting to move around a lot. We have to keep an eye on her because if we put her down on her play mat then she usually ends up in a different place than we put her! She has been reaching and grabbing objects very well. She has been holding her legs up a lot and now trying and succeeding in grabbing her feet. I think yesterday she managed to get her sock off and we looked over and saw that she had her sock in her hand and proceeded to put it in her mouth! Ha ha! Maybe I can lose the last 10 pregnancy pounds now that I will be chasing her around soon. :) I do have a video of her rolling over (I think it was the second time. Unfortunately didn't get the first time on video). I don't have the video uploaded yet, but I will post it as soon as possible. Check out our links to the right. There are new photos and videos. I have recently discovered the new option of posting videos on Flickr so I have put several on there. I think they seem to be a bit clearer than when I post on You Tube. What do others prefer? I will post a cute video here below of Heidi!

Aaaaand they're off!!!

The summer activities have officially begun here in Chemntiz. Our LST Team arrived on Tuesday and on Wednesday we had an information meeting at a hotel down the street from our house to let people know about the Let's Start Talking Program. It is an English conversation program in which students read text one-on-one from the Bible with a student from the USA. Our team is from Oklahoma Christian University. We have 4 girls this year. They are: Mandy Holmes, Morgan Nash, Sarah Byrd and Sarah Gogarty. Once again I was reminded how small the world is when Mandy told me she used to live in Yukon but moved when she was 6. I remember her family, but I barely recognized her since it had been so long! Anyway, the girls have each about 6-7 students that they are reading with mostly on a weekly basis, although some students are reading more often than that. We are really excited about this program and hope that it goes well!



In Heidi news :) she went to the doctor again yesterday and got another immunization shot. She did well again although she did cry a little more than past times. But she is ok and hasn't had any side effects or anything. She now weighs 5490 g (12 lb 1 1/2 oz) and is still 61 cm (24 in). Exciting news: Heidi rolled from her back to her side on Tuesday! She has been doing it a lot lately now! Pretty soon she is going to be rolling all over the place! We definitely have to keep an eye on her now as she never ends up in the same spot we put her in when we pick her up. :) She also seems to really be enjoying finding her voice. She loves "singing" and "talking" in really high tones! Could we have another soprano on our hands??!! We took family photos and 3 mo. pictures of Heidi. I'm sure you have already noticed the new pic on our profile. Also, the doctor said yesterday that as soon as we run out of the formula that we have been feeding her (1st level) we will start feeding her the 2nd level and also begin feeding her some rice cereal! We will definitely have to get a video of that! I will leave you with some of our beautiful pictures that our friend Sophia did for us!










Here is a video that was taken on April 3rd. She was just beginning to really find her hands and play with them more by grabbing things pretty well.