Getting There...Slowly

OK, so I haven't posted everyday, but only 9 days in between posts is getting better! We had a great week. We had papa's 36th birthday. Ava and I baked him his favorite kinda cake...cheesecake and added bananas for a twist. Ava is becoming quite the little chef. she loves to help cook every meal it seems. We love the new chef attire Grandma Collicott gave us for Christmas...Thanks, Grandma!! There was plenty left so we froze the rest and will have Adam's B-day cake until Ava's birthday I think. We just finished off her cake right before Christmas so having their birthdays 6 months apart works out really well!!!

We are looking into preschools for Ava to start this fall. We went to a preschool fair this Saturday; it was good to see the differences between them all. But I think we have chosen one for her. We have visited a couple of times and she really, really liked it. We stayed longer the second time as she didn't want to leave. She was keeping right up with the 3 1/2 year olds at 2 1/2. The teacher was really impressed. It is a Core Knowledge school. They are very nice, it was clean and well organized. She jumped right in and felt at home. It will be two days a week a couple of hours a day. Just enough for her to get her feet wet before the big K but not too much away from home just yet. A good change for us all. I really feel this will be a positive change. She loves to learn and this setting is perfect for her. We are really excited for her!!

We have started to attend a local Korean church. Boy is that a different experience. We are not Christians perse but are spiritual in our daily lives and beliefs. I guess you could call it New Age Metaphysical beliefs, so a christian based church is very difficult for us to swallow. But the Korean influence and exposure for Ava is so neat. They all love her and she really likes being around them as well. We have a meal afterwards, usually Korean & they are all such good cooks! And wow, do we love Korean spice! We laughed today as one of our goals was to start learning the Korean language but by going to church, all the words we are going to learn will be god, suffering, sinners, bloodshed, etc. Not what we had in mind. But they are such great people. So generous and helpful. It will be hard to stop going if that is what we decide to do. We thought about checking out the Buddhism center. We are on a mission to find out where all the Koreans are in Fort Collins...next stop is the International Center at CSU. We have heard great things about it. Adams Aunt is always bugging us to come, so we have decided in 2010 we are going to get involved. We are even thinking of becoming a friend/host to an international student this year. Every January and August families are need to become a host friend to incoming international students. You do a variety of things like have them over for dinner, go out together and just be there for them in a town and culture where they know no one and nothing about. So will see about that.

Also this week, we visited our favorite local place, The Farm. As usual Ava had a great time!

Until next time...
good morning, good evening and good night!