Ho Hum...

Reina has finally discovered her taste buds, as she came to her senses about broccoli. This is actually a bad thing, since we can't get her to eat hardly any veggies! Actually she is turning her head at all things that we ask her to try, even though she continues to tell us she is hungry (or signs "eat"). I find it a bit annoying. I thought I had it figured out today at lunch when I sat her in my lap and she spooned her own food in, but then at dinner she would not have anything to do with it. Its strange b/c she eats if she is not in her high chair...pancakes, oranges, raisins - oh raisins. They are her new favorite food. Anyhow.

Reina celebrated Easter this past Friday at daycare. I showed up to find that she was the winner. She some how won a huge easter basket. My first question was, how does a 1 year old win at something? Apparently she happened to find the egg with the right thing inside it!

House news: We met at the land and they had the whole

house mapped out to scale. Then we walked through wall by wall, ensuring that we were happy with where things would end up being and how big they were. Unfortunately the forecasts calls for rain from here on out, so they probably won't start the foundation any time soon.

I've mentioned before that Reina loves shoes. Well, here she is for the first time putting on Chris' shoes. She even walked around. Silly girl...

Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon!

Reina understands Japanese! I was so excited about this discovery tonight, that I had to tell the world right away! Chris and I came upon this when I was singing "head, shoulders, knees, and toes" in Japanese when we were in the tub. I had it in my head b/c I was singing it to her and showing her the body parts in English. Then in the tub, I just sang it for fun in Japanese, and Reina immediately touched her head. You might think that she remembered it from our previous English session, but she totally didn't get it then. So, of course, Chris and I were skeptical so I said "atama" two more times and she touched her head both times. Pretty cool.

Little to Report

Not much new on the Okinawa front. The V. Kubasaki boys got beat by Kadena, by alot! You can read about it here: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=123&article=68952. Dave Ornauer, the reporter, is the same sports writer as when we were in high school, and somehow he remembers more about Chris and my soccer career than we do!

We had a full weekend of soccer: the Kadena game on Friday night, another game Saturday

morning, and then Chris insisted on watching Kadena's game Saturday night. Reina was

amazing and I am so thankful for her patience. She sat on my lap through the entire Kadena

game, which might be due in part to the fact that it was REALLY cold and she slept on my back for the entire Saturday morning game. Chris' team has another game Monday night (late) and

then a game again on Wednesday (late), so we'll miss both of those, which I think both of us actually appreciate!

Reina continues to learn new signs and perhaps uses several signs to communicate the wrong things; its a work in progress. This weekend she picked up "clean up," but takes

it more to mean "put this in"... and then out again. She also got new shoes, which are by far one of her

favorite things to play with. She put on and took off her new pink crocs several times. That's about all I have

photos of this week, in addition to a nap she took on my back (since she refused to nap in her crib).

Nothing new on the house. We didn't drive by this weekend to see if construction had started...and haven't heard from them since the blessing.