Sasha loves her stuffed animals. She especially loves her 'lobo' (wolf). Almost every time she sees lobo, she lays her head down on him and gives him a hug! We finally got a couple of pictures of it. : )














We've been reading "The Baby Book" by William and Margaret Sears (one of the best and most wonderful gifts given to us by Colin and Britt - thank you so much!) It has lots of ideas for games to play and activities for different age groups. Babies love to open cabinet doors and empty everything off of shelves. And one idea this book has is to get them their own set of cabinets and fill the shelves with container type toys, pots and pans and their favorite toys. So we did just that. Here's James building the cabinet and Sasha crawling on top of it.

One of the indigenous groups in Costa Rica are the Guaymi. They hand make these beautiful dresses that all of the women wear. Some dear friends of ours, Anne and Parviz Ighani have been living with the Guayi for years and had one of the women make this little dress for our Sasha! We were so touched to receive such a beautiful gift! It's a little big on her, which is good; Sasha is growing fast and will be able to wear it very soon! Here's a picture of a little Guaymi girl, and a picture of Sasha with her new dress!