We hope this summer finds you all well. We are doing great. I feel like I always know a little about what you are all up to from Facebook, and that is a blessing! I hope you all feel the same way about us. Often times when I post pictures of Stella or funny little things she's said, I am thinking of you and how you might enjoy seeing or reading about her.
Stella is her usual vivacious self. We call her our 'Ray of Sunshine' because that perfectly describes her. Others often make similar comments...she is just so outgoing, friendly, easy to talk to, funny and cute that people can't help but love her the minute they meet her.
This summer she has taken swimming lessons and is getting to be a pretty good swimmer. She can swim across most the pool by herself and float on her back. Because it's so darn hot here during the summer months, it's about all we can do is go swimming every day. So, we do! She is so tan that she told me the other day, in all seriousness that, "pretty soon she will look like a black lady."
We've spent quite a bit of time this summer at my parents' cabin about 2 hours north of here because it's cool, in the pines and located in a fun/quiet little town. She absolutely loves it. When we're there she's a little out-door girl, getting dirty all day, exploring in the woods, gathering rocks, etc...although I think what she really loves is that usually her cousins come with us and so it's sleepover after sleepover with them!
Stella just went to the doctor for her 4 year old well check. She is 40 inches tall and weighs in at 31 pounds. We're just proud she's over 30 lbs! :) She was very healthy and her doctor was impressed at how good her vocabulary is and how high she can count...to 30! She can write her name and identify most letters of the alphabet. While we were there, she proceeded to show him every single place where she has ever had a scrape or bruise, etc.
A funny story about her - a few months ago a friend of ours was visiting. She asked where he lived and we told her, Utah. She looked at me and looked back at him, then said, "UTAH?? What?? That's where babies come from!!" We all thought that was so funny and clever. She knows that both she and her sister were born in Utah and that Cameron and I went there to pick them up. So, apparently, she thinks that all babies are born there and that all parents just go there to get them! :)
Stella is starting another year of preschool this year at a new preschool teacher's house...Mrs. Daniels. She is very excited, mostly because her best friend, Annie, is going to be in the same class. But, Stella loves to learn and be social. So, preschool is one of her favorites. She'll also be starting into her dance classes again - this year I think she's going to take a hip-hop dance class! I think it will be so cute.
Here are some pictures of her. I hope you enjoy them.
Love,
The Webbs
Easter Sunday
Easter Egg Hunt
Sea World
Easter Morning
Sea World. She's scared of heights...but she liked this sky ride, next to daddy.
Easter
Another Easter Egg Hunt. This girl can really find those eggs!
Year-end dance performance. She did so great!
Her dance class.
This year we got her a caterpillar and let her watch it go from caterpillar to cocoon and then hatch into a butterfly. She loved watching it each day. This is the day that it was time to let the butterfly go...she was very brave and was happy to see it fly away into the tree.
Easter Morning with Mom and Scarlett
Picking flowers at the cabin
Bed-heads! :)
Stella's birthday party.
Swimming at a beach-pool that's near our home. We go here each week with her cousins. She loves it because it has real sand and a big beach entry.
At the cabin with her cousins.
4th of July. She's got that pose down!
Stella and her cousin, Max, watching the rain at the cabin.
Sitting on daddy's lap. She LOVES her daddy.
4th of July.
