(Otherwise known as the second half of January)
Well, after an extremely busy November and December, January ended up being a really nice, relaxing month. Pacing our work on (and specifically spending on) the house has forced us to take a nice breather and chance to get back into a routine around here.
Eliot: He's gone through a little progressive growth spurt the past couple of weeks and is suddenly crawling with his stomach off the ground (sometimes), cruising, and climbing the stairs. The stairs are a little scary since the only way he knows how to go down, is falling. We'll work on that. He also has started shaking his head "no" when he wants to be funny. Super cute. His upper teeth have grown to rabbit proportions and are also very cute. He's still not eating many solids, and hasn't been his cheerful self since he came down with a cold Thursday. Ira caught it Saturday, and I caught it today. Since the boys' noses are like faucets and their coughs hacking, we decided to stay home from church and let Ant represent.
Ira: Grumpy with his cold. But besides that he's been really fun. He's really into pirates and dragons as of late. We showed him Peter Pan after the pirate infatuation began and now I am constantly finding a hanger in my hand and being called Captain Hook. Social skills have not exactly come....naturally. He growls at guests, and when he saw a few other little boys at the Library this week, he decided to play dragons with them. Of course he didn't explain what he was doing when he started running after them roaring. He came back to me fairly quickly and said, "He said I was a bad boy." Hmmm perplexing. He has however had a really fun time with the little preschool coop we've been participating in.
Anthony: He had a conference in Toronto for 5 days, keeping him busy. The rest of us survived without him but were exuberant at his homecoming. He also had some fun presentations to attend yesterday at U of M. He feels like my knight in shining armor every night he comes home. ....does that imply I need to be rescued from my children? Let's not dwell on it. :)
Sharon: I got a church calling as "Morning Out Co-coordinator," which means another sister and I organize play dates weekly for sisters with or without kids. I received the calling two days after getting stir crazy and venturing out in blizzard-like weather to take the kids to the Museum of Natural History. We couldn't find any parking closer than a half a mile, and as we walked I kept getting "you are a crazy lady" glances from people or comments like, "Wow, you're a brave woman to bring them out in weather like this." Anyway, I'm really excited about the calling. It's pretty perfect, since obviously we enjoy getting out no matter how inconvenient, and have lots of ideas of where we'd like to go.
We've also been busy getting together with fun people. In the past 7 days, we've had friends over for dinner 3 times. There are a couple of guys I worked with from BYU in our ward, so we invited them over with their cute families for Indian last Sunday. Friday we had the Elders over for dinner, and yesterday some good friends from our last ward dropped by while their house for sale was being viewed.
So, that's pretty much it. Life is good and busy. Have a good week everyone!
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