Wee!

We are pleased to announce that Jeff's brother and his wife finalized the adoption of Ariel! We are very happy for them all and thought about them all day long. We will be celebrating his adoption more on the weekend of Rose E's birthday.

Walter was also thinking about them and made-up a story about him and Ariel. One of his favorite things to do is to take turns making-up stories with Jeff and I and I thought yesterdays was a cute one so I decided I would share it(in the story he came-up with all of the good parts-the people and the adventures). He pretended that we ate with Papa, Nana, Uncle Dan, Auntie Amy and Ariel at Pizza Hut and Ariel brought a car that flipped over on both sides. Anyway, he pushed it back and forth at the table and it landed in someones plate, so Walter took him in his helicopter to the car wash. Then Walter drove him to the park (the one we went to today) and he slid it down the slide and it went all the way over to the museum train track. The train ran it over and the engineer felt so bad that he gave them a special ride in the caboose. Then Walter took it home and fixed it with his Bob the Builder tools! Boy oh boy, does this boy ever have an imagination!

Speaking of the park, I took these pictures today while we played there. Every time we drive by lately Walter has been giving me the report on how much snow is left there and then finally the past couple of days it has been mostly gone so he was thrilled when I told him today we could go. Both kids had a blast. Rose E went down her first slide and every time she would go down she would say "wee." Then she would sign more and say "wee" to do it again. Walter had lots of fun climbing, sliding and swinging. I had to add a picture of him on the merry go round too because he saw it and said in great excitement "mama what is that big wheel?" Then it was cute because when it was time to leave Rose E started to cry. Also when we got home she was trying to tell me about it by talking about "wee" and then when we went for our usual walk tonight she kept saying "wee" too. I think she was asking to go back. I can not get over how many words she is saying! The past couple of days when I am done reading a book she says "the end." She also said "ring" (stacking ring), "please" and "good night" to Walter tonight. Yesterday, it was neat because I played a little game with them where I tossed balls into a container and when I tossed the first one in she said "yeah."
Lastly, I posted a picture of Walter and Jeff next to our train crossing sign. Jeff gave it a fresh coat of paint today and it really turned out nice.