Eva turned five on August 25, just a few days after arriving in Costa Rica. She was made to feel very special on her big day at school, where she wore the traditional cape and crown with sentry companions making an arch for her to enter through into her classroom. Then, with all classmates and us in a circle around Eva, her teacher, "Maestra Olga" told the same story that makes me cry everytime I hear it at one of our kids' birthday celebrations at their Waldorf school in Anchorage. It goes like this: a little angel who tells a big angel in heaven above that she would like to go down to earth and find a home with just the right mommy and daddy who will love her.The big angel thinks that would be ok. She glides down on a rainbow and next thing you know, a man and a woman who really wanted a baby find out that the woman is going to have a baby, and her belly gets bigger and bigger until one day, she had Baby Eva, and they were all very happy to have such a beautiful baby girl. 
Only a few weeks later Zena turned 1 on September 19! We had a family birthday party, and she enjoyed the whipped cream on her cake. Her presents: nesting blocks and a big tub for her to splash in on hot afternoons.
Things Zena does lately: puts a play stethoscope on some part of her head and crawls around making housecalls, loves to look at her kitty cat book and baby book, bites anyone at any random time anywhere on their body, gets giddy splashing in the water whenever she takes a bath, rocks and sings whenever she hears music, tweets on a whistle while she crawls, waves hello and goodbye, methodically scrubs the refridgerator and floor with a baby wipe, and took her first baby step yesterday, Sept. 29.
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