Striving to share more in 2008!

Logan, Andrew, Santa and Malcolm

I had the best intentions of sharing on a regular basis, but twins, a 7 yr old and work keep me busy! Not to mention the 41 yr old "child" I'm married to! So I'm going to attempt to do better at this.

Malcolm and Andrew are now 9 months old - two sweeter, cuter babies there never were! Malcolm is an expert crawler. Andrew is Commando Carl and pulls himself along with his arms right now. He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth before dropping to the ground again. He's taken a few "steps" on all fours, but resorts to his arms to get around. Both guys are trying to stand up constantly. I suspect they'll be walking before they get teeth. I check every day, but not a pearly white in sight. They both blab quite a bit and we can pick out words here and there. Malcolm has said "all gone" a few times and said "An-do" the other day. Andrew has said "ba-ba" a couple of times and both say Mama and Dada. Oh, and Malcolm is trying to say Logan when he says "dodan".

At 7 years old, Logan is now in Cub Scouts. He has completed his Bobcat badge requirements, so he should get that first badge soon. He likes to watch Mythbusters with us and of course, still loves Spongebob. His newest passion is his Nintendo DS. He's very good at video games, but doesn't spend hours and hours on them. He also likes board games and loves his Legos! He's a great helper with the babies and puts on a floor show for them during dinner occassionally. We read every night and have just started the first Harry Potter book. I haven't read them either, so this is just as much fun for me! He got the complete boxed set for Christmas.

Duncan has finished his last full time semester as a college student. He has a few math courses to take, but may or may not take them. Some people just aren't math people. He's great though at history and English! He had a blast being on the college bowl team this past two years and was the captain of the B team. They came in 3rd with the A team coming in first at state competition in December. He toyed with the idea of going another semester, but he really doesn't need anything other than math, so it would all be just extra curricular courses. So he's starting the hunt for employment. He will enjoy it much more now that he has a new car - a Mercedes Benz. I never can remember the model name.

I'm taking a week off next week. I've been covering for people and writing reviews most of the past 6 weeks. So after a few spotty days off for the holidays, I need a week to regroup my work thoughts and a week to clean house. We need to baby proof now that these guys are mobile. I'm setting myself a weight loss goal too. I restarted Nutrisystem on New Year's Day. I've had a few little cheats to ease myself out of the bad stuff. I got into a bad Krispy Kreme cheat this fall. Lack of sleep made me cheat on donuts and I definitely needed the caffeine of my diet cokes! So I'm cutting myself off the KKs, but keeping the DCs. I must say Nutrisystem works! I've been on it 4 days and have already lost 1.5 pounds! As I recall the first time I tried it, I lost 3 pounds the first week and averaged a pound a week after that. And I haven't even restarted exercising yet! I plan on doing that next week while I'm on vacation. Sad though that I have to take a vacation to clean my house! But I do plan on taking a fun trip to hang with my "sista", Melissa for a bit at the end of the week as my reward.

I'm still learning how to use my new digital SLR camera and my new HD camcorder. I'm thrilled that the camcorder is so light and fits in my pocket. It will make capturing video much easier to transfer it immediately to my computer.