Catching up

It's been a while, but we've been a bit busy around here. There's always the post-holiday cleanup a.k.a. finding a place to store all the toys - which usually involves weeding through other older toys, and putting away the decorations.

Last week, everyone went back to school. It feels good to have the kids back in their routines since they were so disrupted by the ice storm and then the holidays. And K and I went back to work, me in my new office digs! My company moved to a wonderful new facility that is simply stunning, so that's been very exciting. There's a great new cafeteria, a gym, and a super game room, complete with four flat-panel TVs, video games, a pool table, ping-pong, and two Wiis! This coming Friday night, we're having our annual kickoff party, so K and I will attend while the fabulous Miss S babysits! This is my sixth annual party with the company - all of which have been scheduled to coincide with either a blizzard (the '04 party at The Hard Rock Cafe in Boston) or single-digit temperatures (every other year). This year will be no different with highs on Friday's forecast at 10 degrees and the low at -5. Brrr...

All the after-school activities have started up again - First Communion, dance, piano, etc. EJ had two birthday parties last weekend, an ice skating party followed by a sleepover. We went to dinner with some friends and then ended up picking EJ up early from her sleepover - she was too tired from the skating and really needed her sleep! EJ had a blast at the ice arena and really did a pretty good job - this was only her second time.

Miss Sophie continues to amaze us all with her chattiness and silliness. She was imitating EJ's dance moves last night in the kitchen and I just couldn't stop laughing. Formal potty-training will begin very soon, but she goes to the potty at every diaper change and is successful for most of them. We've been talking about how excited she will be when can wear big girl panties! K trained EJ when she was 2 years and 5 months using the Potty Training in a Day book (can't remember the official title, but you can find it on Amazon). Sophie will be that old in a few weeks and we think she's even more ready than EJ was, so wish us luck!

Oh well, off to bed. It was busy this evening too...EJ has two tests and a book report due tomorrow, so we were reviewing everything tonight. She read the junior version of Moby Dick and wrote her report as a newspaper article.