Dear Friends and Family, December 2006
Happy Holidays! We
hope this holiday season finds you happy and well. We love you all so much and are excited to
share some highlights of our past year with you.
Paul has been working on finishing his Master’s Degree in
Computer Science this semester at the University of Illinois Walnut Creek , California
Christine has kept herself busy this year with various
activities, including: a book club, a mother-child music class, weekly
playgroup, preschool with Rebekah, and working her Mary Kay business. It will be hard to leave all of the amazing
friends we’ve made and all of the wonderful support of the moms, but we’re sure
that, as we keep reassuring Rebekah, we will not be “losing” our friends in
Champaign, only making more out in California.
Rebekah, now 3 ½, is our little princess. She loves to play dress up and frequently can
be heard before seen as she clip clops in her plastic princess heels around the
house. She often reprimands what she
deems inappropriate behavior by saying “That’s not how princesses act!” She is also the princess in our
playgroup. It worries her parents that
at age three she has already mastered the art of persuading all the little boys
to do her bidding and they all fight over who gets to sit next to her. She is quite the social butterfly and the
first question of the day usually is, “Who I play with today, Mommy?” She has perfect faith, and in her evening
prayers, she likes to insert things like “and thank you I get to play with Ryan
tomorrow, I love Ryan and he’s my friend and I love to play with him.” Inevitably,
some turn of events will end with her playing at Ryan’s house the next day,
whether or not it was originally planned.
She is a joy in our home and constantly keeps us on our toes with her
quick thinking and love of teasing.
Peter will be 18 months on Dec. 8th (nursery here
we come!). One of his recent games is to
stand in a particular corner of our house and wait for someone to say, “Ready,
set, GO!”, then he dashes off around the house and ends at the same spot,
waiting patiently for the next race.
Sometimes, he gets impatient and shouts “Go!” himself. Peter also loves to show off by climbing on
things (chairs, the small seat of his bike, etc.), balancing himself and
standing, no hands, then smiling at us with a mischievous twinkle in his eye
and announcing “Ta Da!” ... this gives me no end of worry, but I can’t help but
laugh at his bravado. He also loves to
push buttons and drives his sister crazy by constantly changing the channel or
turning off the TV, pushing the power button on the computer or reprogramming
the telephone. Once, when the
telephone/answering machine was within reach, I observed him pushing a button
that replied “No messages”, Peter continued pushing the button faster and
faster until it just kept repeating “No, No, No, No …, No!” This seemed to delight Peter to no end, much
to my dismay.
Paul and I were able to celebrate our 5th anniversary this August with a trip with no kids (I highly recommend this!) to
Love,
Paul, Christine (Wilcox), Rebekah (3 yrs.), and Peter (1 yr.) Winward
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