February 25

A blessed Lent to everyone!
We have had a fairly good week here. Well, other than the fact that I twisted my ankle yesterday afternoon. Not sure when or how I did it, but it sure hurts.
Luke has cut his 6th tooth! He's been working on it for a while now and has been quite crabby about it, so this is a very exciting event for us! He also learned how to click his tongue the other day and spent hours doing it. He thought it was absolutely hysterical.
Brendan has his own laptop now. Well, in his imagination he does. He took the green box from the toy shelf, dumped out the cars that were in it, propped it up on the end table and started typing and told us that it was "Myenen's dapdot." (Brendan's laptop)


He also drew his first picture of Jesus the other day. Fortunately he told me it was Jesus... It was very cute, he was sitting at his desk and drawing a big blue circle round and round. When he saw me watching, he pointed to it and told me that it was Jesus.

February 18

I've decided to cut back drastically on my internet use for Lent. Thus, I will only be online on Sundays. But, I will try to update the blog AND the website each Sunday. Which actually means that they'll probably get updated more often than they normally do!
We have some really nice warm weather coming our way the next week or so. I'm really looking forward to being able to take the boys outside to play more (without having to wrap them up in so much clothing that they can barely move)!
We had lunch with the deaf today after church. Brendan watched with fascination as they signed and after a few moments he started to "babble" in sign. Very funny and cute.
This morning was his first time having cereal with rice milk on it. He usually eats oatmeal or dry cereal for breakfast but today he noticed me putting rice milk on my cereal and asked for it on his. He did remarkably well. Only a few drips got on the table.
Luke slept through the night again last night! Yay!!! Some nights he does and some he doesn't, but it's definitely getting better. He's also starting to say Dada. I think Michael's pretty thrilled about that.
Well, dinner is ready so I'm going to go eat!

February 14

Happy St. Valentine's Day!

We're all doing quite well here. My back is completely recovered! That's a huge relief and is making life so much easier for me. Brendan is doing very well in our home preschool, I'm quite proud to say. He's getting very good at identifying the colors, letters, numbers and shapes he's learned so far. And he loves to point out Jesus in the pictures he colors each week. Luke is a daredevil as always. I think he spends all his naps and nights dreaming up new ways to injure himself. He has cut his two top front teeth! He has the two side top ones coming in, I think maybe later this week - two weeks at most. He also seems to be starting to sleep through the night! A very exciting thing for me.

I've recently come up with substitutes for soy sauce and cheese that are safe for our family to eat! Yay! We can have stir-fry and macaroni and cheese again!

Enjoy Brendan's first post below. I was trying to get him to type the alphabet as far as he knows it (A-E), but he got a bit excited and threw in a bunch of other letters. I don't think any of you mind!

Brendan's First Post!

ACCCCCBVCCCCCDDDDS WEEE