We Love Summer!

The Walshes are having such a fun family summer! Hannah is thriving and the boys are busy with camps and activities. Joey made the East Altadena Little League All Stars and has been in two different basketball camps. Daniel's days have been full with Dolphin Swim Team practice and meets, Camp Shi'ini down in the Arroyo and Tae Kwon Do (he just earned his purple belt). We've also had fun going to the beach, visiting the zoo, going to various museums and movies, bowling, swimming at the club and just hanging out. The boys have attempted a couple times to sleep up in our tree fort but chickened out once it got dark.

One highlight was attending Nightlight International Adoptions summer picnic where we got to see our friends Mike and Jenn and their son Joshua who we traveled with in Kyrgyzstan a year ago! In just a few days we will be celebrating our one year anniversary of arriving home with Hannah! What a difference a year makes!

Our Special Visitors

Recently we had the great honor of a visit from two lovely ladies from the Kyrgyzstan Embassy in Washington D.C. My agency was hosting them and they brought them by for tea and a sweet visit. I had tears in my eyes as I realized what a gift this sweet country has blessed us with.

They were so interested in Hannah and how much she has grown. They had been the ones who had processed her paperwork and they recognized her!

Happy Birthday Hannah!

Our sweet Hannah turned two on April 27th! We kept singing "Happy Birthday" to her all day and by the end she was singing along! What a doll!

Hannah Sports a New Do!

Hannah has been sporting a molluck lately so we decided it was about time to take her out for an official first haircut! What a difference! What a cutie girl!

Happy Easter!

We had unusually hot weather this Easter so we enjoyed a beautiful resurrection day at the club with a lovely brunch, egg hunt, petting zoo and swim!

Our hearts were so filled with gratitude as we celebrated all that Christ did for us on this special day!

Walking!

Hannah is officially walking! She stunned us all on Valentines Day when she up and walked across her room from the door to her bed! And oh, she is so proud. She is toddling all over the place and we are on the chase!

It's so fun to have her pass this milestone. Since this has happened she is now out of the baby room at church and is enjoying many more activities with the other toddlers her age. I've also started taking her to My Gym and doing a "Wobbler" class with her. It's so funny to be doing this after teaching toddler classes at a mommy and me program for a number of years. What was even more fun was to find a few of my former students in the class with their second or third child!

Pretty in Pink

Our sweet pink girl is growing! She's also on the verge of walking any day now. It's so exciting and she's so proud of herself. She is a great little communicator...with her baby signs. We still have only heard a few occasional words but she definitely can tell us what she wants with her signs. She signs "Dada", "cracker", "milk", "eat", "drink", "more", "dog", "cat", "bird", "signing time", "shoes", "coat", "hat", "book", "brush teeth", "orange", "banana", and more.

We love our little angel!