Happy St. Patrick's Day

We celebrated St. Pat's Day by doing MORE hair stuff:-) I found a website for cute girls' hair and I'm addicted. Anika and I had so much fun trying this clover design. I hope that you are all able to see it:-) (It could also be three hearts!)

All Things Hair

Anika and Kathryn received a wonderful gift of hair bows, barrets, and ties from Henry's mom in Korea. (She confessed that she really enjoyed shopping for girl things since she only has boys!)

Sunday, after church, the girls enjoyed decorating their hair with Adela (whose Grandparents live on our street and attend church with us). Adela got the girls all flowery and then they returned the favor!

Progress

Well, we couldn't be happier with Anika's progress with her braces and we wanted to share!

Anika's brand new braces:
Anika's progress after six weeks (three weeks with active turning of the expander):Do you see how much that wire as straightened as her teeth dropped in now that they have room? She has been such a champ! She never lets us forget to turn the key on her expander and she really doesn't complain much. As you can see in the bottom picture, we are opening up a gap between her front teeth. The ortho says it will be pencil-sized before we are done. I'm really pleased with how well her teeth seem to be responding!

Monterey Bay - A Last Hurrah

We decided to take advantage of our last opportunity to visit the aquarium in Monterey before our membership expired so we missed out on parades, carnival rides, and Almond Blossom festivites. However, I don't think that any of us were disappointed. Every experience is different at the aquariuam and this time we were able to enjoy a behind-the-scenes adventure simply because I asked a staff member where the pacific sunfish was. (The sunfish got to big for the tank and was released but we were blessed with the opportunity to sneak in the back and see some sea turtles that they are working with. Henry loved the aquarium but he was ecstatic to visit Fisherman's Wharf and eat some real, fresh seafood.

Behind-the-scenes: