An Apology

Dear Kids ... I'm so sorry I have not been keeping up with this blog the way I intended to do. I think I have been in a funk lately. Largely due to health problems; but a "funk" nonetheless.

So many cool things have happened. For starters, we celebrated Thomas turning FOUR years old. Woo Hoo. How cool is that?

We have watched baby James do amazing things like learn to crawl and grow two teeth. We even moved his pack-n-play crib into the boys' room. Major milestone. It is kind of nice to have such sweet brothers sharing a room.

Carrie moved out of our house. No more Dutch girl for us. She is still living in the neighborhood though; so we will still see her I am sure.

We are still enjoying having Pedro here from Brazil. He took over Carrie's room when she moved out; which made room for baby James in the boys' room. Lots of moving around going on. We even re-arranged the living room furniture because baby James is crawling around so much.

We bought a piano - mainly for Victoria - but I am interested in it as well. I was so pleased tonight as I was listening to Victoria play the keys and try to teach herself the piano via the book I bought from Amazon. Victoria - my dear - you are SO talented, you amaze me.

William, my precious William, you have become quite a good helper to mama. I love the way you are trying to help clean up every day; and help with the Kitchen. You take such pride in doing a good job - and I just love that. You had a horrible tooth ache this week and you had to endure a kiddy root canal. Yuck. You were such a brave trooper though. The Dentist said she had never seen such a brave kid. Now you are taking liquid medicine every day to help fight the infection; and you take it like a champ. You even remind me when it's time to do it. I love how responsible you are becoming. Now, if you could just work on that little temper of yours :)

So anyway - my precious children - sorry I have not been blogging here quite the way that I thought I was going to. I will try to do better. That's all I can promise. I think I am starting to become more like my old self now. I went back to the YMCA today for the 1st time in many weeks. We had a wonderful family walk around the neighborhood with daddy. The weather was perfect for such.

Good night my angels. It is nearly 10:30 in the night; and this mama is tired. The house is so quiet. All kids are asleep. I plan to be next.