It's been a long time

It has been almost a year since we have updated this blog. What a shame! It turns out that things get crazier the older your child gets, and it can be hard to find time to squeeze in the extras.  Like writing for an uninterrupted 10 or 20 minutes.  Add to that a new laptop and moving all of the photos to a firewire drive, plus job changes and crazy schedules for Daddy, and life has been kind of nuts for the Doctors.

But all is well!  Carmela would like everyone to know that she's feeling great, she's playing, and she's running around.  She literally just asked me to write that so everyone would know.  This kid.  I tell ya.  She's going to be great in kindergarten, which brings us to a little announcement:  Miss Carmela June is registered for kindergarten!  We're not sure yet which elementary school she'll be attending, as the Seattle Public Schools has a complicated enrollment system, but it is exciting to know that she'll be starting this next milestone in the fall.  In the meantime, she's powering through preschool, learning to resolve conflict, engaging in a wonderful imaginative life of princesses, and singing the theme song from Frozen over and over and over again.  She's very close to learning to read, and enjoys doing her letter sounds "homework" at Kumon.  Miss Carmela loves playing at the park (tag and chase, mostly), and she also loves watching Pixar movies at home with Mama and Daddy.  She also loves playing board games, coloring, doing dot-to-dot and find-and-circle activities, and she's starting to figure out whether she enjoys working on puzzles.

Coming up, Carmela is very excited about Purim (she wants to be a mermaid ... again), and she and Mama are going to make hamentaschen cookies to snack on.  And, of course, there's the Purim carnival, which is always super fun, because cotton candy!! I mean, making a grogger is lots of fun, but the cotton candy is the big ticket. After Purim comes St. Patrick's Day, which is also lots of fun! Mama and Ela loves to go to Seattle Center for the St. Patrick's Day festival, with Irish dancers and crafts and music.  Hooray!

How about some pictures? Ok, coming up!