April showers (of snow and smiles)

The crazy Vancouver weather continues. From a sunny Sunday of playing ultimate frisbee in shorts to a 36-hour continuous rain in which I had to run my many errands with the two girls, to a blustery sunny Tuesday of playing outdoors with friends, to today: a sleeting, snowy mess. Dave is sad...in all his excitement about the new garden plot he rented, he went ahead and put lots of vegetable seeds in the ground during the past couple weeks. Doesn't look like he'll be seeing any sprouts soon. Poor guy.

Today is Hannah's 8 week birthday. I cannot even begin to express the joy and completeness she has brought to our family. Her middle name of Shalom turns out to be more apt than I ever thought possible, for she is God's gift of fullness, peace, wholeness to this family. All three of us are absolutely taken with her. Cora is, as always, a very compassionate child who at the least whimper by Hannah, jumps up to come to the rescue saying "Baby crying!" So, Hannah is never allowed to complain very much, Cora sees to that. But she doesn't complain much anyway. She is content and peaceful, and very attentive. We love the way she stares intently at us when in our arms. And the smiles! She readily rewards any attention with the most brilliant smiles. David is always laughing too at the way she already loves her mommy. She turns her head in search of me whenever she hears my voice.