Water out of cloths, instead of rocks...

I mentioned a while back that Rebecca thinks anything made of cloth holds water. Well, here's a picture of where that belief came from. She really does like her time of cloth eating at every bath! This was from Saturday evening. We're starting to create a bed time routine of a bath, massage, story if she is in a good mood, or just eat and then sleep if she isn't in a good mood. If she's in a mood where I can read to her, then she eats after we read a story or two. It's been nice, because it lets me get 6-7 hours of sleep straight instead of 4-5 hours.

Rebecca was studying those elephants. She's recently figured out how to actually "catch" them, though she hasn't figured out how to hold on to them. She can make them swing a lot though!

And, my 365 pictures...

Justin raked the lawn for me on Saturday!! It looks soooooo nice now! I've been trying to get it done for the last few weeks, but it kept raining so much that the lawn was too soggy to even consider raking it. Now it's done, and I have five or so piles of leaves in the yard, just waiting for us to have plastic bags to put them into.

My friend Irina (she's on the far right of this picture) invited us to the baby dedication at her church. They were dedicating their son, Grant, and there were another seven babies/children dedicated at this service as well. This is a picture of the lot of them.

And... my avocado tree! This picture is a part of my highly productive morning/afternoon today! I got the diapers hung out to dry, a load of lights into the wash, the diapers into the dryer, the lights hung out to dry, the lights off the line because it started to rain (argh!), the avocado tree planted in this lovely pot and dirt that I got through freecycle, the front garden watered where the rain doesn't hit most times (because I want my bulbs to grow!!), the dog and baby walked, lunch made and eaten, clothing items that are too big for Rebecca put away, boy baby clothing sorted and put away/into bags to give away, and 49 little planting pots made from old phonebook pages using this cool little pot maker thingy my parents gave me for Christmas. Just looking at that list makes me feel tired, and there's still more that I'm going to do today... such as make supper!!

And... the mail came and the package my parents sent arrived!! Finally. After spending 16 shipping/business days in the mail, it arrived! What a relief that it is here, because we had started initiating a trace on it when it didn't arrive after 14 days in the mail. I guess the moral of that story is, if you're mailing presents to us that need to be here by a certain date, they have to be sent at LEAST a month in advance, or we need to purchase and be reimbursed for them, because 16 days is a rather long time for something to be in the mail, which likely means it got stuck at customs for a while.