Big Week

So, this week was the first time in our lives that all four of us had to get out of the house every morning. The good news for the week:

A) Mo LOVES her day care. She does not cry in the morning, she is happy when we get her in the afternoon and she is sleeping better (a bit)
B) Mo is now eating semi-solid food. On new year's day she had her first rice cereal and she is eating that every day now in addition to bottles and breast feeding. Yesterday we introduced some pear and she seemed pretty pleased.
C) Mo has a tooth! One of her bottom teeth broke through overnight.
D) I remembered all of my students' names and remembered the appropriate math.

I've been tired this week. A different kind of tired than what I was experiencing the last seven weeks. We had another rousing game of Mouse Trap last night and, once again, I was the first one caught. This time Beth won and Gram had a tough time with that. He's got some learning to do when it comes to dealing with disappointments in his life. sigh...

Family Traditions

So, Beth has been pretty intent on us starting some traditions of our own and the two that have taken root thus far are Pizza and Movie night on Fridays and family game night on Saturdays. Gram gets to choose the movie on Fridays which is rather unfortunate for us. We have seen the Garfield movie recently, a Sonic video, and, last night, we were subjected to Kirby (an extremely odd pink blobby character that does not talk and whose primary 'power' is the ability to inhale everything in sight.) It is beyond description, really. We just finished playing the game Mouse Trap which Gram chose at a cute little toyshop on a recent family outing. He was so geared up as the machine was being built during the game and he trapped Beth first. Then he and I ran around the loop repeatedly before he caught me. He jumped in the air yelling 'VICTORY' as the trap came down on me. I suspect that he'll have some pretty happy dreams tonight.

Gram's Excellent Bowling Adventure

Our friend Richard sent the following highlights from the bowling adventure yesterday.