A beautiful Sunday stroll resulted in some of my favorite photos of our baby bear to date! Oh, that sweet, happy face!Some large trees near our house drop small dark blue berries all over the street. Isla is obsessed with them! She is very observant and has incredibly sharp eyesight, so every time we go...
The month of January kept us incredibly busy with returning to Shanghai, resuming work responsibilities, basketball tournaments, and weekend trips to Harbin and Beijing. We spent the first full weekend of February relaxing at home and it was wonderfully refreshing! Isla sampled her first smoothie and loved it!We spent lots of time coloring. Isla’s interest...
Less than a week after freezing our buns off in Harbin, we headed north again to Beijing for the ACAMIS Basketball Tournament. It was Isaac’s final international coaching experience (at least for now!), and Isla and I were so happy to be able to come along and cheer for Dada and his team. The tournament...
We learned about Harbin’s International Snow and Ice Festival when we first moved to Shanghai. For the next few years we played the, “Hey, we should plan a trip to Harbin,” game with our friends, where we all excitedly talked about it, but never actually got around to planning anything. Knowing we were leaving China...
I have learned many valuable life lessons throughout the 15 months of motherhood I have experienced thus far- one of the most important being that time flies by entirely too fast! Watching Isla grow and develop has been an amazing, and sometimes mind-boggling, gift. I am so very thankful for every day with our sweet...
