Natali things

Natali is a growing little girl. She is 4 years old now! :) She is changing and to me acting a little older. It is very difficult to carry her any more which at 4 she shouldn't be carried anyways I guess. :)
One of the differences is that Natali is making up lots of games to play. She has a thing with our dog Ranger that she puts towels on him and calls him the "Pressible". I guess she got this from us saying impressive? Not really sure. Ranger puts up with a lot from her and we are thankful he is so patient. Natali also likes to put her Hot Wheel cars all over and around Ranger. Another thing she started is she builds a ladder out of Legos for the Lego people to go up and be on Ranger. She will cover him up with pillows too which is what one of the pictures is of. You can barely see Ranger's head.

Natali also does a lot of playing with her toys and making stories for them. It is really cute and it's neat to see her use her imagination. She does dialogue with her cars and other things.
Natali still likes to play with Legos also as I mentioned. She got a set for her birthday that you can make 3 different vehicles out of 1 set. She is changing it multiple times a day and is able to do a lot of it by herself. She can look at the instructions and follow them fairly well.
Things are going good around our house. Natali goes and goes and goes all day. :) She is quite the talker and doesn't like taking naps but still does.

This last picture is from our latest visit (maybe a month ago?) to see Natali's cousins - Finn and Asher and Aunt Jenny. Finn slept a lot of the time and Asher was taking a nap when we got there. But when Asher woke up, he and Natali had a little bit of interaction. Asher seemed to be proud of his little sister I think - he went over to where she was and smiled big and seemed to kind of show off his sister to us. We had a good time with them.

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So yeah, haven't posted anything since last August...... I wonder if anyone still looks at our blog. I can't believe how time flies!

Things are going well around the Edinger household. See if I can update in a nutshell. :)

For Josh - he is working at a Dennys store now as the operator (head hancho in my words) and he has a pretty good commute for that. It has had its own trials but overall, he is doing good and the store is doing good also. I am proud of what he has accomplished!

For Christina - I continue to work at the animal hospital. I have cut my hours back a little to be able to spend more time with Natali.

For Natali - She is a smarty pants and she still loves her cars! And trains and trucks and anything with wheels. :) I asked her what kind of birthday party she would like this year and she said "Cars". She talks so clearly and cracks us up all the time.

It is hard to believe that our child will be 4 years old NEXT MONTH!!! That is so crazy to me. It seems like we were just celebrating her 3rd birthday last month.

We redecorated and painted Natali's room in December and it has Thomas the tank engine decals on part of the wall. We are trying to slowly "fix up" parts of our house in case we decide to move closer to Josh's work place, then it would be ready for that. God has blessed our family in a lot of ways. We have only had non-severe sickness in the past months, we have been safe driving some long drives and Josh's every day commute, and have had things we need and even a few splurges! We are so thankful.

I'd like to share a few pictures of random things since it's been so long!!!!!