Summer in Rhode Island

Well the older kids are out of school and Caroline is still in nursery school three mornings per week. The interaction with other kids her same age is really important instead of hanging with teenagers all day. Lauren and Michael both had great academic years and will likely take in many hanging days at the beach this summer. Caroline had her first biting incident at school. they tell me that it is very normal two year old thing. We are trying to explain to her at home about how biting is bad (I recall doing this about 15 years ago with Lauren). Work is very busy for me and I thank my mother every day for picking keeping Caroline those extra hours so I can meet our year end deadlines. Scary thought, but next year end Lauren will be graduated from high school and going to freshman orientation! Yikes.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer i am quite happy with the warmth versus the coldness of this past winter!

6 Months

It has been six months since we returned from China with Caroline. I have said this before, but I still can not believe that she hasn't been with us our entire life. Most people ask me, your life has probably changed, hugh? Well it is true, our life has changed a lot. We had Michael and Lauren in our lives for the past 15-17 years and now we have this beautiful daughter - Caroline.

Caroline is walking, running, tumbling, and almost talking. She is starting to put words together like Dadda, Momma, Lo-Lo, yellow, purple (she loves to say purple), most animal sounds, book, cracker. you know those important things. Her sleep is fantastic, she goes to bed at 8:30 and gets up around 7. Since the weather has warmed up, we spend a lot of time outside. She is starting to walk barefoot outside. She doesn't like the feel of the sand, dirt or grass on her barefeet, but now she is getting used to it. Our pool will open this week and it will be interesting if she goes in it.

Lauren and Michael are doing great as big sister and big brother. They are going through final projects and exams for the year so very busy.

I have attached more pictures, her hair is finally growing and since she is deathly afraid of sissors i am expecting more pig tales, and pony tales!