April 8, 2003
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Conference Weekend was lovely and was well covered by Dad. I will say for journal purposes though that the weather was perfect. Some of us even sustained slight sunburns while sitting out on the deck between sessions. The emphasis this time seemed to be on strengthening the family and missionary work. Convenient for me is the Family bits since that is the topic of my RS lesson on Sunday. I think I may even show one of the talks.
Now for news on Serra~V~. After a few months of a cheery girl, the last week has been a little tough. She hasn’t been sleeping well and with the masses of teeth coming in has been stuffed up as well. Sunday I noticed that her ear was oozing too. Ear infection. I took her into the doctor first thing Monday so I could get her started on the dreaded antibiotics. So now she will start feeling better and hopefully with the advice I got from Dr. Gregg and Dr. Liesl the affects from the meds will be less explosive than her previous experiences. (Although she kindly exploded on Grandma’s lap this morning…oops)
She is having a grand time with all the new independence. In the evening when everyone is home she travels from room to room visiting everyone in turn. She especially loves when one of her uncles is practicing guitar. She hears the strum and off she runs to listen. Sometimes during the day she wanders into their room and strums the guitar a few times before I remove her from the area and close the door.
She also figured out how to get outside on her own. After watching her cousin Jacob use his hands on the sliding door, she tried it herself and was victorious. I caught her climbing up on the deck last week. She was very perturbed when I brought her back indoors and locked the door. She is almost tall enough to reach the lock. Hopefully, it will be a while before she figures that one out.
She is starting to recognize words. She knows what daddy, mommy, grandma, grandpa, bye bye, and monkey mean. She like to point and wave and of course, jabber. We are having a great time.
Brian has his laptop carrying case (still waiting on the laptop), has registered for classes, and has been granted funding. We are still amazed that there are people and institutions that are willing to loan us this amount of money. Just a few weeks till school starts.
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And that about covers it… pc
I can not believe that she is going to be one this month!! She is growing so much and so fast, I am very glad that you are keeping us updated!–maren
it feels like we will miss all of her growing and see her next when she gets baptised. thats how it feels though not true
I got the cutest photo’s back of Serra v. She looks so kissable in them. I miss her ( & all of you guys of course, put you know what I mean.)
Julie, remember to send cute pictures on this way. We don’t ever have enough.