Just Catching Up

At the cemetery

the cousins

Friends I hadn't seen in a very long time, and love very much.

Iris's son and grandson

The girls loved playing with him!

Visiting Grandpa at his new place

Family Day at Grandpa's

Love that hair

Shanna wanted to be a pretty princess

Megan asked to be a monster!

The caterpillars have come and gone. We have one last butterfly still here. He seems to be unable to fly yet, so he may be a foster pet. This caterpillar is doing a "Happy Dance".

This shows all of the many stages; The dark chrysalis is about to hatch. The lime green is just turning from caterpillar to chrysalis. The pale green have been hanging between 1-10 days. The caterpillar hanging upside down is forming his J. and the 3 other caterpillars are getting ready to J. The white/clear things are chrysalis' that have already hatched. An amazing amount of stages in about a 6"x7' space.

For some reason two chrysalis' fell off their hooks. Matthew is helping this one to be born! His chrysalis was on he bottom of the cage, so he needed some help cracking open the shell because he did not have the help of gravity pulling him out upside down.

This one did not want to leave Mary Alice. What a pretty hair clip.

Summer school fun- classroom teacher

Student Teacher

English Second Language Teacher

Classroom Assistant

English Second Language Assistant

Our wonderful Nanny!

Dropping Mary Alice off at camp!

Our friends, adopting Lorelei AnXiang from Shantou. She was a very dear friend of Shanna's. We keep in touch through Skype, although right now in the transition, Shanna can't speak Chinese and Lorelei's English is just starting, so there is a lot of giggling and "showing" precious belongings.

Here are some videos we made and sent to Lorelei AnXiang just before she came home from China with her parents: Shanna is "introducing" us to her.

She is a joyful child.

I know Misty. It's busy.

and last but certainly, not least, a slide show of Marion's life.