I love this stage! Every morning Kamalia wakes up & gives me the cutest smiles. She talks and laughs, and you can tell she thinks she's pretty cute. I have to agree! She can't wait to meet everyone. Less than 2 weeks to go, where did all the time disappear too? I have to say my excitement for coming home has been a little dampened since one of my best friends won't be there to see me. They're moving to Quincy (?) but she promises to come see me soon & it will only be for a couple of years at the most. I'm not sure what I'm going to do without her. I'll miss you Shannon (& David of course!) We finally did the pineapple maze (it's the longest maze at over 2 miles long) & it was quite an adventure trying not to lose any of our kids along the way. They enjoyed it although Koa kept asking when we were going to get "there". I'm not sure he understood the concept! We're starting homeschooling this week, I'm curious to see how it will work with 3 in "school", a 3 year old & a baby. I think we're outnumbered by over 2 to 1 now, where did all these kids come from anyway?! I'm thankful for each one, they all have their own personalities, strengths & weaknesses. While being a parent is one of the HARDEST things in the world, it is also the most rewarding. It's like looking in a bunch of little mirrors & seeing all your faults so clearly! I'm still trying to figure out why most of the positive traits seem to come from Eli & all the negative seem to come from me, I wonder what that means?! I'm looking forward to playing volleyball again when I get home, hopefully I won't hurt myself before I can get into shape. I'm learning that there are actually a lot of advantages to having a lot of kids. Like today, we went to the park & played a game of kickball & we had enough people to play 3-on-3! It was fun, we got rained on for a few minutes but we played through it (aren't we committed), & after each kid took a turn of quitting or running away when they got out, we finally called it quits. I think we passed on our competitive spirits a little too strongly, so now we have to work on being good losers as well as gracious winners. (It's really hard to teach what doesn't come naturally). We miss everyone.