London

I've gotten a few emails asking if everything is ok, as I haven't posted in a while. :-) Guess things have slowed down a little from the 4 posts and 200 pics a month! Good news, though -- all is well here! We've been busy getting back into our routine here in Germany. Zoe and I went to London over Labor Day to celebrate my 40th birthday. Jill and Lucas, Jill's mom, and Kim and Hannah helped us celebrate. We had such a great weekend; I absolutely fell in love with London!

Zoe continues to have her word explosion. Lately, she looks for "walking birds" (birds that aren't flying), "choo trains", and "blue chucks" (blue trucks) wherever we are. She is really becoming quite funny, even playing jokes on me. She asks about everyone in the family and all of her friends almost daily. She'll start with "gramma" and then say "how about Pop-Pop" followed by a "how about...." until she's asked for at least 10 people. I think it is very cute! Lately she's been into dressing up in her plastic high heels and plastic jewelry and saying "mommy, cute". She is quite a character!