3.5

My sweet Hava Joy is 3.5! She says the funniest things every day and brings us so much JOY!

* Havilah's favorite things include reading books with Mom and Dad (she regularly sits for an hour at a time doing this--long after her brothers have moved on), making a mess, eating all kinds of food, playing outside, and being with other kids around her age.

* These two are joined at the hip. In fact, I wasn't really sure I could post about Havilah without at least mentioning her brother's name. Havilah's world revolves around John in so many ways. We are curious to see how she grows and develops when he enters kindergarten in August. For now, they are together 24/7 and that is a positive thing 23.5/7 (the other .5? That's when she complains "Mom! He's not obeying me!!")

* Havilah relishes messes. (Remember the sugar?) Someday she may be a neat freak, but these days she positively enjoys getting mud in her hair, getting scraped up from climbing the lemon tree, and on this particular occasion...rolling a "poop ball" for an invisible dung beetle, naturally.

* Hava loves to be barefoot. She takes her shoes off every time she gets the chance. Here's her bare foot at the Mariners' spring training game we went to recently--her shoes were in another row, where she had kicked them off.

* She is steadily learning to control those passionate emotions that make life with Hava a bit like riding a roller coaster. But when she's happy (and usually she is), she lights up our home with her smile.

I'm so glad to have this precious daughter!