Why Chevy lots of hungry?

Tonight Rose E and I went to an United Methodist Women's meeting. We had a surprise adoption shower for the guest speaker, she is a church member whom has done missionary work in Haiti and has just recently adopted a little girl from there (they also have another baby girl who is 17 days older than Rose E). She shared lots of photos and experiences, it was very interesting to listen too. The little girl that they have adopted was given up by her 18 year old mother when she was ten months old because she could not afford to feed her. As I thought about that, I felt a whole array of feelings. First thing, how very sad for that mother (I guess she was coming around the orphanage to see her little girl from time to time too) and how awesome it is that that little girl has such a nice home now. Sometimes we just seem to lose sight in how lucky we are to have what we have!

On a another note, little Miss Rose E found great pleasure today in making this chair spin in circles as she walked around with it and said "whee." Oh how many times in the past year I have sat in this chair in her bedroom feeding her and rocking her and just couldn't have imagined the day when she would be moving it herself!
I also took this picture of her in her highchair at breakfast. This morning when I was feeding her, Walter was working on the activities in his newest animal magazine, when she spotted a pen on the counter. She just had to have that pen in the worst way, so I gave it to her along with some paper and showed her how to hold it and lone behold she produced her very first drawing!

I also had to laugh because her brother has been playing with her ball toy that I took out yesterday, so when she has been going down for naps she has been carrying them with her! She even insisted on taking one of them with her to the meeting tonight! Speaking of the meeting, it was also cute because on the way home from the meeting she looked out the window and said "see?" I said "do you see trees?" Her other new words have been "belt" (from Walter's new car seat) and "teeth" (as she pointed to a little girl"s teeth in a book).

Walter played a lot with his airplanes today. He also has been very interested in Chevy's every move. Anyway, this afternoon he was eating a snack and as Chevy watched him eat he said "why Chevy lots of hungry Mama?" Man do these kids ever bring lots of smiles to my face!