She Sent Me an E-Mail!

February 27th was a special day for us! Hope has her own email account now and she sent me an email. She was excited to send it and I was so happy and VERY surprised to hear from her in that way.

She doesn't remember the Mandarin Chinese that she was speaking when she joined our family all the way from Beijing -- just "Mama" and "Baba", the Chinese version of "Mommy" and "Daddy".

The picture here is from the night we celebrated Christmas with her, Kevin, and Barbara. Nadean was sick that night, so we missed out on that part of our Christmas visit.

Here's Hope's email to me (I love it!):

Dear grammie, guess what? I got a email address.So now i can write to people.And people can write to me.I am having fun sending emails to every one. So how are you ? Well if you ask me i am doing pretty good. Well i hope you are doing good yourself.So how is grammpie and grammie Ruth? Well i hope they are doing okay.  Baba thinks he knows every thing except 23 things. So every time he says that i  ask him questions. The number of things that he does not know always goes up.And he thinks he is a spy.But i know he's teasing me. And when i think that he really tries to trick me.Well he has not told mama yet i don't think. Well i am having fun writing this letter to you! I still want to have another game day/ night. Tell everybody i said hi.bey!

Grampie emailed back to Hope and told her there are actually 26 things that "Baba" doesn't know, and one of them is that "he doesn't know what he doesn't know".

We owe Hope a game night, so we have to get that on our itinerary!

P.S. (In case you haven't noticed, we think our grandkids are wonderful.) And they ARE!!!