Here is the picture of Sasha eating the hotdog that she loved so much. We were absolutely amazed at the fact that she almost ate the entire thing.

Sasha got a swing for her birthday and she is in love with it. It has become almost a daily activity for us now. We just hung it from the patio of our upstairs naeighbor. It is so nice now that the weather is getting warmer - warm enough that we can play outside.

Sasha is the love of our life and we cherish her dearly.

I really don't have a ton to say right now. I am sitting in my Constitutional Law class. We should be reviewing but for some reason we are covering some new material that will not even be on the exam. So, needless to say, it is very difficult to pay attention right now. Our final is on tuesday, so I don't understand why we are doing this and not reviewing.

Well...good luck to me.

She's officially WALKING!!!!

Sasha has taken the "step" into the land of two legged movement. She is officially walking now. There is no slowing her down. She decided to start walking all the way across the room and right on down the hall. Then she turned around and came back the same way, all while holding her favorite little stuffed giraffe. She has been apparantly taking lessons from Frankenstein because she walks just like him.

She also is starting to eat a lot more. We let her try a hot dog (actually one of those polish sausages) and she liked it so much that she nearly ate the entire thing! I think she must be hitting a growth spurt again. We shall see. We are excited for her birthday coming up in a week. We'll put up more pictures (obviously). This one was taken while sitting in Daddy's lap (mind you, Daddy took the picture)

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter holiday. JJ stayed with us for the weekend. Sasha loved her little presents. Hilary made a dress for Sasha that turned out to be very cute. Grandma and Grandpa A. gave Sasha some very colorful, foam blocks and she loved them. Although, she didn't quite know what to do with them.

The weather was nice, however, on monday it rained. That did not stop us from going to Coeur d'Alene for the afternoon. We even walked along the longest floating boardwalk in the world! Needless to say that Sasha fell asleep in my arms about half way across. It was really good to have JJ come visit. We miss everyone else who we haven't seen in a while. Sasha and Hilary will be visiting SLC for a week starting tuesday. I, however, will be studying for finals. Until next time.

Momentous Occasion

So the other night, after we fed Sasha, we let her play in the front room while we sat down to eat. Next thing I know, I look over and Sasha had found a nice cozy spot to snuggle up and go to sleep all by herself! She never does that - talk about fighting sleep when Mom and Dad are in the same room, lights are on, AND we have company (JJ was there with us). Sasha never ceases to amaze us. She is such a special, wonderful, beautiful, smart little precious girl. We love her dearly and she seems to like us back, at least a little bit anyway.

April, April, April ...

I can't believe it is April. FoolsDay came and went and no one even noticed ... at least up here because I was too busy with my research exam, which only took me about 3 days to complete. The biggest news we have is that Sasha took 5 steps the other day!!! It was amazing! She has been taking one or two steps lately on her own for a little while now. But after Monday's 5 step adventure, I think the end is near. Duh, duh, duuuhhh. As it is warming up (somewhat) we thought we would go to the park. Although, Sasha wasn't quite sure what to think of the swing or the slide. However, she definately liked it when it was all over.

For St. Patrick's Day, we went over to Coeur d'Alene and spent the day there among the locals. We went through the shops on the main street and stayed for their little half hour parade. It was actually quite a bit of fun. We also walked along the world's longest floating boardwalk! The lake there is beautiful! The chocolate was awesome! and it was a good relaxing day away from the law school monotony.

Sasha loved the parade! She was clapping for all the people and hooting along with everyone. It was so cute! They had a bunch of dogs in the parade and we got to see one of the great danes afterward. He stood about 3 1/2 ft. tall! maybe taller. He was monstrous! As you can see, his head was almost as big as Sasha.
We are doing well. I am trying to stay afloat in school while Hilary holds down the fort and Sasha gets in to everything. Things are good. I still don't have a job for the summer and things are starting to look pretty grim in that area, but I am doing what I can. We may end up staying here in Spokane if I don't find anything. I'll go volunteer somewhere and plan on passing the Patent Bar. We'll keep you posted.