100th post.

With a camera and a couple of kids, I figured I could keep a blog so that our far-away family and any curious (bored?!) friends could 'watch' the kids grow and hear about our life here. Now, I have evidently managed 100 posts.


Seems like a good opportunity to give some updates that I keep forgetting to mention on here. Namely, Will has not had a seizure in nearly three months! We praise God that the medicine he is on is working well and he's pretty good about taking it. He seems to be doing really well overall. He has also had 2 days and nights in a row of not wetting his bed - YAY! And, he can almost be trusted to walk on his own without holding someone's hand if it's a flat path. He loves to go to bed at night and for naps, although sometimes he tries to talk with his little sister and postpone sleeping, but he's at least very easy to send to bed. He is such a fun kid.


Annie is quite a happy little lady. She got the hang of sleeping through the night in just a couple of days once I wouldn't help her. Now she loves to go to bed and just lays there, babbling until she falls asleep. She sleeps a good 10-12 hours every night, and it is just scrumptious to have all that quiet. She still only has 6 teeth. When she's fussy (like every day!), I am still convinced that she's teething and that the next tooth will come any day. And it still never comes. :) I only nurse her twice a day and it is so nice to still be nursing her, yet to be rather detached from her and able to go places and do things without her sometimes. She likes stuffed animals and she likes to carry around her baby dolls. She also likes to 'read' books and suck on pens (especially when the cap is off) and play with anything her big brother is currently playing with. Recently she's been climbing on his bike, but her legs are so short that she can barely get on and can't usually get off. She also enjoys being outside and if I forget to lock the door (or if Will unlocks it for her), she scurries out as fast as she can and grins at me as she tries to escape. She learned how to unlatch the gate that kept her out of the bathroom as well. Yes, we've got trouble... And if that were not enough, she's also been learning about talking on the phone and wanders around the house with a play cell-phone to her ear making all sorts of incomprehensible sounds.

Will now answers the phone when I permit it - usually when I'm just too tired to race to it first. He also LOVES talking on the computer. We have enjoyed some fun chats with our relatives recently. I thought I'd take a picture of the scene last time so that those we talk with could see how it is on our end. Enjoy :)

Below are a couple more pictures of Annie- she is holding Will's beloved walking stick, which he received as a birthday present. Nate snapped these pictures one day when he noticed that she was holding the stick and playing it like a guitar. So cute.