A Beautiful Day at the Beach

So on Saturday, Mary Rotman, Ember (Rotman), Jamie, Danika and I went the beach for the morning/afternoon. We actually started out at the Farmer's Market at the Vets Building. We had a nice time looking around at the great food and produce there, and we bought some AMAZING white nectarines! Wow, they were good. Danika kept on calling them apples, but to her credit they looked similar to apples (not to mention that any type of fruit is either an apple or bananna to her).

After the Market, we went and got Ember and packed up everything into my car and headed out. Thank goodness Danika fell asleep on the way there. Her head slumped over to the side, into that unnatural and uncomfortable position right when we hit Sebastopol. We ended up at Schoolhouse Beach. The weather was heavenly, no clouds or anything! The one problem was that this particular beach has pebbles instead of sand. Usually I love those pebbles, they are quite pretty, but they were insanely hot! I am kind of a wimp, so maybe some of you could have handled it, but I had a hard time!

Danika immediately wanted to go to the water! I was rather surprised at how brave she was during the whole time. Especially after what happened with one of the first waves. see in this picture, we went up to the water, and waited for a wave to come get our feet wet. Danika is giggling and so excited, and as I see a wave come up, I begin to realize how big it is.When I realized this, there was only a moment before the wave was going to hit us, so I scooped her up and tried to get out of the way. I am so glad that I got her up in time, because it was so strong, that it could have taken her with it! It was such a terrible thought, I had to purposefully push that out of my mind. In the picture, I have my red flip-flops on. When that wave hit, it dragged off one of

my shoes, and since I had Danika, I couldn't run and get it. So Mary, being wonderful, runs to get it. However, she has Ember on his leash, and Ember is terrified of this water! So she was literally dragging Ember into the water to save my shoe. Then, Danika drops her pacifier, and luckily I grabbed that in time So as you time. So in the end, we all were fine, just a bit of excitement to start the afternoon. The rest of the time that we were by the water, I had my hands around her stomach with my fingers laced just in case I needed to scoop her up fast again, which I did!

Well, we had a wonderful time! I will have all the pictures up from the trip on my Shutterfly photo site! Feel free to check them out!

Many Updates!

Its been a while since I have updated this blog, and there is probably a lot that I have missed in putting on here. Lets see what we have.

Danika is getting into her music more. She loves the piano. She asks for it all the time. Luckily, her high chair is the perfect height so she can sit in it and play the piano. And that is nice for me, so I can keep making lunch or whatever and let her compose her music.

Danika also has fallen in love with Grandma's baby doll. This is Grandma's baby doll from when she was a little girl. Unfortunately, Dani isn't as gentle with this baby as she probably should be. Thank goodness it isn't a real baby! You will see what I mean.

Papa and Auntie are done with school for the year! Yea! They made it! Papa had his band awards night, which Danika loved. Although I think she really just enjoyed being the center of attention and the Snoopy that Papa let her play with.

She went around and talked to many people, tried to mooch off some cookies or chocolate, and of course fell down a few times too.

But she got to see her friends, Kimmy Gordon, Jake and Dylan Hofer, Mason Williams, Aaron Fruchey, Cameron MacInnis and more!

Now that the rain has stopped, Danika loves her raincoat. On one of the warmer days here in Santa Rosa, she wanted to wear it! To make up for wearing a warm coat, I let her go around the house without her pants on. She is such a turkey!

We said goodbye to the Hofers this weekend. It is so sad to see them move, but I know that God has great plans in store for their family. And I'll just have to save money so that we can go visit sometime!

Danika has started to mimic words more. All the sudden she is saying circle, mouth, teeth, eyes, ears, pink, green, yellow, purples and it goes on and on! I can't believe how much she is talking! Jamie got a video of her singing and trying to say her (Jamie's) name. They are too cute. Once I get them from her I'll put them up here for sure!

As for me, things are going fabulously! I just got an internship with a Sonoma County Public Defender in Juvenile Court! I am so excited! This will be really good for me, and for my resume! She is my teacher, so I feel very comfortable with her and she knows my work. I found that out last night, and I got another surprise last night too! During class last night, the president of Empire College came into my class and presented to me the Student of the Month Award! This is out of both the day and night school, so some 500 students. I must be doing something right! Haha! I turned so red when he presented it to me. There are two big perks to getting this award, one is that I can get as many personal references from the president of the school as I need/want. That will be very helpful! And mostly, haha, I get the parking spot right next to the door at school! Yea! It may seem silly, but sometimes I get out of school really late and it is really dark. So it is nice to not have to walk as far to my car. Plus the spot is right under a light.

Whew! Well, I think that has you all caught up! Life is getting busier, and so is Danika, but we are very happy. :)