Another great gift from Old Saint Nick

The Yookidoo Flow n' Fill Spout is a HUGE hit:


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Long overdue blog updates

It has been 9 months since our last post. This is, needless to say, pathetic and we have no good excuse for our negligence!

Today is Christmas, and the boys are enjoying every waking moment of the day! Our neighbor Diane and her three sons handed down a large set of BRIO trains and tracks for Kai and Finn. I set up some of the set on the coffee table in the living room, and we started our Christmas morning by revealing this gift from "Santa." We then moved on to stockings full of lizards, dinosaurs, and freeze-dried fruit.

The tool sets by Green Toys and the steering wheel/driving toys are also a huge hit! So far, the activities of the day have been hammering throughout the house and outmaneuvering the police.



I, of course, knew that "every kiss begins with K" and went to Kay Jewelers for my sweetie this year!

Happy Christmas and Prospero Año Nuevo to all!

Finn in his birthday suit.

The Sprouts have completed their first trip around the sun!

A busy new year

First of all, we want to say that we feel absolutely terrible that we haven't posted to our blog since before Christmas. We don't have a very good excuse except that this family of four has been very busy!

Christmas morning was absolutely wonderful! It was Kai and Finn's first Christmas, as well as the first Christmas in our new house. We dreamed of having a Norman Rockwell-type Christmas morning, but we also knew that it probably would be far from it. In reality, it was about as close to Norman Rockwell as you can get! We had a wonderful time getting up on Christmas morning, opening presents, taking a break for breakfast, and opening more presents. It was pure joy!





Afterward, we packed up the car and headed for Grandmother and Grandfather's house in Houston...more presents, and the first Christmas with Uncle Tyler! We're very thankful that he's a part of our lives.

Christian and I rang in the New Year at home with friends, cocktails, and a fabulous board game called "Ticket to Ride." The babies slept through the whole thing.

Apple eating

About a week after the boys returned to the Early Childhood Lab, they came down with hand, foot, and mouth disease. Really not fun. Then I contracted the disease right as they were recovering from it (it's pretty rare for adults to get it). As if that weren't enough, immediately following hand, foot, and mouth, the boys contracted RSV, which can be a very serious respiratory infection requiring hospitalization and breathing treatments. Luckily, they escaped all of that. However, they're currently suffering from the normal cold, and Finn has an ear infection. Our friends tell us that things get much better once they reach 2-years-old. I'm hoping that's true for the boys.

January was also a big month for Christian and me at work. Christian was having to conduct business at the Art Center without phones or Internet. It's a long story, but after crippling along for a month, Christian finally has phones and Internet again. As for me, a co-worker of mine was fired after making work a miserable experience for a lot of people. Now that he's gone, things are finally back to normal.

So, we hope you can forgive us for not posting to our blog sooner. Things have been crazy around here, but hopefully we're turning a corner. We're setting our sights on Kai and Finn's first birthday next month. We can't believe they're almost one-year-old! It's bittersweet for us. We love seeing their personalities develop more and more each day, but it's all happening so fast.

Kai and Finn on Christian's Birthday

Feb. 12th: 4" of snow fell on East Texas!