I know I have been really bad about posting on Lanie’s blog here in the past few months, but hopefully there will be a lot of new posts over the summer while I am home for summer vacation! YEAH! This has to be the absolute best part about being a teacher: getting to spend this hole chunk of time with Lanie!

So much has gone on in the last couple of months but I will try to give you all the short version to catch you up. Lanie turned 2 in April and had a butterfly themed birthday party with just a few close friends and family. We had a good time and I have some great pictures of David beating the pinata that refused to die! I took Lanie to have her two year pictures the day after her birthday, and am posting those in the gallery. She is getting so big and looking more and more like a little girl instead of a baby.

Lanie’s vocabulary has been growing rapidly and she amazes us every day with the things she can say. She will hear you say something and at some point in the future will pull it out, generally in an appropriate context, which is just amazing to me! She knows a lot of her colors, can count almost to 20, and sings the ABC song with very few mistakes! Since moving into the new house, she has learned to go up and down the stairs with ease.

Speaking of the new house, we moved in the 1st weekend in April and are still unpacking lots of boxes. We have a contract (and a backup if the first falls through) on the old house finally, so it should close by the end of this month. They are working on the swimming pool as I type, and hopefully it will also be done by the end of this month, considering it was supposed to be done by June 12!

Anyway, that is the short version of things going on around here, and I will try to be better about posting more during the summer and getting her pictures up to date!