Jake's Toy Drum Medley

This is before he got "big drums with cymbals" from Santa. I'm sure that more video will follow!

Train Driver

I would love to sit down and compose some sort of organized compilation of the past three months, but instead, I'm going to do a stream of consciousness thing here (NOT a la Britney Spears..puhlease!)....but I'm kind of disorganized and random in life right now (everything is fine, I'm just not very organized right now), and so my post is going to be the same (not out of design, but because that's just how I am right now!). ANYWAY, a few things I wanted to note:

The other day when I was driving the kids home from school, Jake spontaneously told me that he wanted to be a "Train Driver" when he grew up. No surprise there, right?! He said that he wants to "drive" a blue diesel engine and pull boxcars, oil cars, coal cars, flat cars, and a little red caboose. Very specific. I thought that it was cute. Two days later, he still is forecasting "Train Driver" as his future profession;-)

Long Time No Post

I've been quite out of touch over the past few months (it flew by so quickly, I can hardly believe that is HAS been months!). Quick update for now and more later.

First off, my incredible sister-in-law has started her own blog, www.heatherzupdate.blogspot.com to chronicle her cancer treatment and life in general. Please check it out:-)

As for the kids, Jake is now in the 3-4 year old room at daycare and is loving it. Much more structured and "academic" if you will, but he's doing so well.

In the past week, Noah has pulled up, stood on his own (briefly), and started cruising. He just may be on the move by his birthday (next month!). He seems to be skipping the whole crawling step. Guess he doesn't think that it's necessary.

Paul just got a great new camera, so I hope to upload some new pics soon of the whole fam in action.

Okay, I just spent 30 minutes trying to log INTO this blasted account (long story, couldn't remember user name OR password), had to trial and error it for an annoyingly long time. Anyway, no time for actual writing, but I will have to update soon to discuss the holidays, family happenings, work, friends, the saga of the mice (!), and our upcoming travels this Spring. More later!