Wednesday I went to visit another little village in the mountains called Kakopetria with Jalene and Haley. It took about an hour to drive up there. At first, everything was much like down by the sea. Desertous. Scrubby plants. Off-white rock. Then as we went over the mountain, it changed.

On the other side, there is all kinds of greenery. Thick forest with various kinds of pine trees and leaf trees. It reminded us a lot of home.

Jonathan likes circles. He will put circle shapes inside bigger circle shapes. Monday was the first time that funny little quirk was at all annoying though. We had French toast for breakfast. When I was putting food away. I couldn't find the lid to the nutella. Then I noticed that the lid to the peanut butter was slightly askew. I found the smaller lid amidst all the peanut butter, covered and gooey. Sometime when David and I weren't looking, he had opened the peanut butter jar, plopped it in and closed it up again. Funny.

Jonathan has discovered he is strong enough to open the fridge door. (Scary, I know!) He'll get in and explore the contents, move things around, take bottles out and walk around with them. However, whenever he is hungry and is able to get into the kitchen, he will pull out the cheese. He will toddle around the room shaking the bag of cheese in glee until he sees me. Then he eagerly hands me the bag and excitedly gives the sign for 'please.'

Last week we had a little incident. Unthinkingly, I let Jonathan take my half-sized popsicle stick out of my hand and play with it. There he was being his adorable self sucking off the last remaining bit of ice cream from it when he began to tip. It was as if I was caught in a slow motion web that I knew would end badly. In half time, the tipping commenced and began to speed up. As I was trying to move at lightning speek, the web dissipated and Bam! Jonathan slammed into the floor, the tiny stick cutting into his cheek.

Poor David. I'm afraid I've been a little hard to live with lately; I've been extra moody. One night I was apologizing to David telling him how sorry I was and how I really am trying when he popped out with, "I think you're pregnant."

That was two weeks ago. As of last week, on Thursday the 26th of February, I found that I am indeed pregnant. We will be expecting a little someone to join our family near the end of October or beginning of November. How exciting! Jonathan will have a brother or sister to play with! And David and I will have a baby to snuggle once again.

Our little boy is getting so big! He's crawling all over and walking with assistance. He plays peek-a-boo (actually putting his head down and popping back up) and just recently he's started a new game. He'll give you something he's playing with then you give it back to him. He takes it and then he'll give it back to you and it goes back and forth until he takes it and discards it for something else.

I took Jonathan for a walk in his stroller today. I surely do get tired of seeing concrete everywhere. We are surrounded by it in the world we live in. Concrete buildings, sidewalks, and roads; and everything is so crowded as to leave little room for anything else. People tend to cram plants in what little space they have in their "garden," and you sometimes come across a patch of grass as large as the person's front door. Only on occasion here do you find a full yard.

Actually, only Americans call it a yard. The British call it a garden.

David has just informed me that too much time has passed since I last blogged. So here is my update:

On Tuesday, I went to my first rehearsal with the kids at St. John's School at the Episkopi garrison. I am volunteering there taking over the dancing in their musical 'Annie.' It's fun! I've got another routine and a half ready for them to learn next week and I have a lot of questions for the teachers before I can do any more.

Christmas is over. Hurray! Things are finally slowing down again. There seemed to be so much going on around Christmas. I was practicing for the Christmas presentation for church on the 21st. I'd meet with Sister Larsen so we could practice her musical number together. Kanthi, one of my piano students, was working on her little piano pieces for the Christmas talent show on Boxing Day and I was helping her. I decorated the Christmas tree at the church.

At this very moment I am eating my favorite food on earth: Breyers vanilla ice cream. David ordered it especially for me. What a man! I LoVE mY huBBY! He is SOOoo WonDERFUL!

mmm....ice cream....