M4 is reading!

He read almost the whole Foot Book last night! Of course, much of it is repetitive so there's a fair amount of memorization, but you can tell he's recognizing the words and letters. I'll try to get a video posted.

Vote for Steph...

My cousin Stephanie Stalnaker is a finalist in a photo contest in Miami. Please vote for her to win: http://www.944.com/rsvp/unscene/index.phpx!

If she wins, she will move up to the national level of competition! I would post one of her pictures, but right now her site is overloading my ancient (in computer years) CPU. You can go look at her amazing pics yourself: http://stephaniestalnaker.com/.

Go Steph!

P.S. Your photos are making me painfully envious of your home climate.

High score!

How is it that all this time I never knew I could set my phone to start up and shut down to sound effects from one of my favorite 80s arcade games???!! The only problem is I can't identify which game...it's driving me crazy!!!! It's got to be Galaga or Ms. PacMan, since those were my two favorites. OMG, I just discovered you can play these games online for free! Think of all the money I could have saved at that Dairy Queen on 63rd...and all the time I could waste now.

How do you make snow ice cream?

Gather your ingredients. (When it has snowed 24 hours in a row, snow is easy to come by...)And your helpers... Mix the ingedients thoroughly...

Consume massive quantities!!

Say cheese!

Here's the Thanksgiving crew! We were so fortunate to have Nana and Boppa, Tim and Mindy and the new cousins, and one of our international sons join us for dinner and the ensuing food coma.The excitement proved to be too much for M4 on more than one occasion: Games were played... (I fell off the chair right after snapping this pic): The weekend ended with quite a bit of snow; fortunately, that hasn't prevented anyone from getting home safely so far:

Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish I could post photos more quickly and easily...I would post some pics of the crew gathered at our house for this great holiday. But I can't take the time, and I just want to say Happy Thanksgiving! I am so grateful for all of you out there! I am grateful every day that my family's situation is stable, healthy, secure and, really, majorly luxurious compared to many people on this earth. Much love to all of you...

M4

It may seem like I'm neglecting our younger child with all this talk about M3 and her swimming, but I'm not. Life is just so much simpler with him right now. Give him a few Playmobile knights and he can play for hours making up complicated adventures. (Usually involving someone getting their head ripped off, but anyhoo...) He was thrilled about making his first snowball of the year last Saturday. He loves loves loves games right now...particularly Rush Hour (thanks PPSN!!):

Every day he asks if he has school tomorrow. It's not that he doesn't enjoy school, because he does! But he likes being home to play better...can't say I blame him!

P.S. Nana and Boppa arrived safely yesterday for Thanksgiving! Yay!