Child 1:
It’s snowing, it’s snowing, it’s snowing!
Child 2:
I wish there was more snow.
Well, everything went pretty smoothly. We moved in a couple weeks ago to our new townhouse. 2 weeks ago we painted the kids rooms and let them air out. Anne’s is now a very pretty light purple color. Drew’s is a good solid blue. They both are very excited about having their own rooms. We also managed to get the tail end of the Pier-1 Kids closing sales and got some head/foot boards for the kids at over 90% off. Total score. Hopefully I’ll be able to put them together in the next couple weeks. Camille also convinced me to go to Ikea. Neither of us had ever been and, man, what a place. They certainly do not make it easy to exit! Thankfully they have a child care place so the kids were not utterly bored. It reminded us of the home store version of Wegmans.
Here is the run down for the past couple months:
So, hopefully Camille will post here soon to give everyone an update on some of the other important things going on in our lives.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We are now all settled in Maryland. I drove up to Ithaca and brought Camille and the kids back down at the end of October. I am so glad we are all together again. I’ll try to have Camille give a larger update about how things are soon.
We drove back up to Ithaca for Christmas and New Years. It was good to see my parents again, and all our NewLife friends. We managed to get some good fossil hunting in as well, as the temperatures were not ‘normal’. Anne and Drew are becoming good hunters, with Anne scoring a few trilobites herself at the Portland Point quarry.
Today, being MLKJ Day, I had the day off. Woohoo! Being in the DC area is great! It was a normal temperature for January 15th, 72F with a 50 percent chance for rain. So we made the best of it and went to the Chesapeake to hunt for Miocene fossils. We managed to score a small amount of fossilized shark and skate teeth. It was warm enough for me to put on my Tevas and walk around in the water to better hunt. Pretty fun! Plus, having Drew periodically say, “Shark eat me” was great.
The next generation of world criminals just arrived in my neighbors yard. The kids were giggling away on the swings and such, and then I heard the first telltale THUMP.