My little girl with a fat lip

Hi Sweetheart,
I love those pictures of you!! You do look taller. I knew it!! Promise me you won't grow too much more before I get back. I'd probably faint!

Tell me, how is your lip? That sounded very dramatic. Did it get all puffy? Do you know that lots of movie stars do something like that to their lips on purpose? True. Weird, huh?

And tell about today! What kind of fun did you and Mai-Mai and Baba get up to? I bet you had a terrific time. Over here, we had our first day excavating. We're working in a big street next to a fancy Roman period house. The archaeologists excavated a bit of it last year and then put sand on it to cover it up while we were gone, so truthfully things were a little boring today--just watching folks remove bucket after bucket after bucket of sand. You can see the photos from the beginning of the day and toward the end of it. In the second photo, if you look all the way to the left, you can see a bucket flying through the air. (the girl in the picture is named Mirjam and the boy in the other picture is named Sander, and they are the ones I work with most). Tomorrow, we should start on new material, so I'm really excited for that.

Another thing I'm really excited about is that now we've been apart for almost a month, which means that time is passing and so I should be able to come back and give you 1,000 hugs in not too much time (though it still feels like that)... Will you hug Mai-Mai and Baba for me and then have them give you tons of kisses from me?? That would make me happy!

Love, love, love

your Mama

p.s. Why did the turkey cross the road twice? To prove that he was not a chicken!! Ha ha!!