The Journey: Sleeping with the Bible.....

Walking her dog and slinging her babe.

Eating German Pancake in style

This evening Johari went to bed clutching a small Bible. She wouldn't let go of it even while she was nursing and falling asleep. She would shake her head "No" if I tried to remove it from her clutches. Is this symbolic of something? :) Not really! Just kind of funny. She found the little New Testament in a drawer in the bathroom that someone had left behind. One of those ones that people hand out for free to encourage the reading of the Bible. Right now, Johari is cuddling it in her sleep.
On Thursday morning , we went to a playgroup in the basement of a church. We found out about it through one of the Meetup.com groups that I joined. The playgroup was nice. There were some kids older and some the same age as Johari. The kids ran around and played with toys for a while. Then they sat down and had a snack together and the toys were put away. Then there was a craft project which Johari wasn't ready to follow. It ended up being me trying to put this menorah together while Johari tore it apart. There was a 3 year old there, Isabella, that really took to me while we were there. She was a sweetie. By the end she insisted that I take her to the potty and not her mama. She wanted me to get her the toilet paper and not her mama. It was pretty cute. We like each other. Maybe it helped that I tried to comfort her after she got pushed by another little girl. Maybe we just hit it off.

Playing with Carmel, showing her the ropes....

Friday evening, we went to visit Carmel. Johari was disappointed when we arrived at their house and Carmel was nowhere to be seen because she was napping. She signed, "baby" over and over. She was more than happy to assist Christina in waking Carmel up. Johari really enjoyed playing with Carmel. They ate rice and teriyaki chicken together. A few times, Johari got a bit jealous of what Carmel had or was sitting on or her sippy cup of water. But we worked through it.