So, it's been a month and a half...

Can't believe it's been so long since I wrote anything in here...it has been busy around here.

After our trip back east we got settled back into our routine. We had a few weeks where presents arrived from Martin Christmas which just kept the celebration going. Unfortunately Zach ended up getting really sick mid-January and was admitted to the hospital for 2 nights and sent home with oxygen for a week. He's now made a full recovery and is back to his happy self.

He's not signing more words but is definitely understanding the spoken words much better. He nods his head yes too which is so cute because it's like a total body nod. He's currently attached to any of his blankets - just has to have one nearby since the hospital. I guess it's similar to a pacifier for some kids and he doesn't use one of those. I signed him up for tumbling and he really enjoys the chance to climb up on top of things and does really well walking across the balance beam kicking yarn-balls off. He still loves to sit and read books too which is cute and now he can point out a few of the ojects in the books when asked "where's the truck? the dog? the bananas?", etc.

Avi is doing great too. She still loves school and is very excited to start kindergarten. She's very proud to tell people she's now 4 1/2. The other night she came into our room at 3am and said she'd had a sleep story - all I can think is that she had a dream and most likely in the movies "land before time" they refer to them as sleep stories. It was really cute and she fell right back to sleep. She's really starting to recognize more of her letters. We have flash cards and she has trouble with 5-6 letters - usually G, U, R, W, M and Q. She'll try to spell out signs when we're stopped at red lights too. She's very into drawing pictures of people and houses. I keep taking pictures of the drawings and can see a difference in her abilities. I just heard that her school decided on the modified schedule for her next year. This means she'll start school on August 4. We haven't heard yet whether she'll have morning or afternoon session. We head back east for our beach week August 6 so she'll get 2 or 3 days of school in before we leave. So she'll get a true "first day of kindergarten" before she misses a week. She'll get 2 weeks off in October, 2 weeks at Christmas and 2 weeks in March and then the year ends June 3. Seems like a nice schedule and better than the track system when she could have had 3-5 weeks off at a time and a really long summer. It'll be a change but we're all excited for it.

My mom and John come to visit next month. Just a quick weekend trip but Avi is so excited and wants to draw with them and read books each morning. We've booked our trip to Florida in May. Heading to Jupiter/West Palm for a party for B's mom and uncle. We'll have a nice long weekend to play in the sand and hang out a the pool. I'm sure we'll spend most of the weekends in June and July camping and it will be so much fun this year since Zach will be into exploring and be able to do some hiking this year.