Enjoying my Naomi

I am having so much fun being Naomi's mom. She is learning in leaps and bounds and it's a blast. I've been speaking French to her (and attempting to only speak French to her) since March 1 and she is really catching on. She's starting to understand more and more and I find we are building on our vocab by the hour! Tonight I was reading "Petit Poisson Blanc" to her about a little white fish looking for his mom and each page ask "Is this the fish's mommy?" And we say "no" and tonight she really got into the "non" and shook her head and "oui" when it was the mom. And she's been counting this week "un, deux" when we're in the elevator going up and down and when we count to "trois" and go "kaboom" and flop on the bead. We giggle and do it over and over again and it is the most fun thing! She walking like a pro these days and almost running, she gets going so fast. She's just a little joy to Tucker and I and it's hard to capture it...I suppose it's a parent's joy and memory. We enjoyed the amazing weather this week by going to the beach on Saturday to have our first picnic of the season with friends Chris and Amy Stroup and little Micah who just turned one. Tucker and I are just also really enjoying our marriage...it feels like finally life with Naomi is more settled so we can feel like adults and a couple and be slightly less focused about Naomi. I suppose we're finding our groove more and more. Perhaps it's time for #2? Or perhaps it's time to just enjoy our family of three and enjoy this phase of life, because it is a lot of fun! Pictures are from this week: At the beach, at the park with Grammy (at swinging all on my own!), eating a HUGE sugar cookie we got from the "boulangerie", eating a banana "nana" toute seule!, and just looking pretty in her church clothes today :)