My Dada and ABC's

This morning Alex was on our bed and pointed at Jason and said "my dada." It was so great! It seems that when she puts two words togehter on her own, they always revolve around Jason. Should I be jealous? She's also doing really well walking down the steps on her own or just with my hand. At least she's not crying most of the time when I make her walk down the stairs. She's babbling and talking so much lately. She makes a whole lot of animal sounds and, even if she isn't saying the word, she can identify tons of items. She also continues to help out her mommy by loading the dryer and throwing trash into the trashcan, which is her favorite chore.

Micah is kicking a lot more and I keep hoping that Jason will be able to feel it, but no luck so far. I'm sure it will be soon, though. I have another appointment at the doctor's office next week for the beginning of my sixth month. It's hard to believe that I'm more than halfway along.

The next few months are going to be really busy. I have about two more weeks of classes, but after that I won't be teaching anymore for at least a while. (I was offered another class for May and June, but there was some question about whether the curriculum had changed for it, and I'm not ready to tackle that right now.) However, I think it will be good because after I'm done with this class, it will be time to seriously start preparing Alex's new room and going through her old stuff. We also need to do landscaping out front, which will take a little bit of time. Jason will be traveling in May and again I think in late June/early July, and then hopefully we'll have those few weeks to relax. We have lots of people coming to visit in the next two months, which is wonderful and makes things very busy! Jason has the global prayer gathering in Tyson's Corner this week, which is a huge yearly IJM event, so he's gone most of the weekend, and on Sunday our church has its annual meeting, which will be cool to attend.

I'm including a few pictures of Alex at the playground last Sunday.