Catching up

I can't believe it's been almost 2 months since I last posted!  It's time to get caught up!

Life continues on at a steady pace at the Christian household.  Ashish is pressing on with his studies and working for Campus Safety.  Priya continues to enjoy preschool and has been growing at a rapid pace.  She is really into puzzles and loves to practice writing and identifying letters.  She is very eager to learn to read.  Josiah is almost 17 months and is growing at a rapid pace.  He is talking up a storm and is communicating in both English and Gujarati.  He is nuts about going outside, balls, cars and Elmo.  I am nearing the end of my 12th academic year at Simpson.  How time flies!

Ami, Ashish's dad and I recently helped to put on an Indian church service for the World Serve missions team training at SU.  It was awesome to see Ami shine as she shared about life in India and to see Ashish's dad's passion for worship as he and Ami led the students in some Gujarati worship songs.  When we came home Priya was excited to see me dressed in a sari and asked to wear one as well.

Later that day we enjoyed an Indian meal together as a family.  Priya helped Ami to prepare it.

In mid-March we spent a day in Sacramento.  We took the kids to Funderland (a children's amusement park) but quickly got rained out so the kids were only able to get a few rides in.

After the rain chased us away from Funderland we went to check out IKEA.  The kids loved it!  Priya especially loved seeing all the staged rooms and had a blast exploring them.  Below she found a girl's room that was her absolute favorite.

She has decided that she likes posing for photos now. 

Grammy and Papa Penner returned to Redding and the kids have been soaking up quality time with them.

We had a surprise dinner for Ami's birthday at the end of March.

 

 

And bringing up the rear of this post is a fun outing with Papa Penner.

Josiah made his first attempt at riding a bike.

And the kids had a blast on the slide.

It'll be fun when Josiah is old enough to ride a bike and to really keep up with his big sister!