The new year has been good to us so far. The girls are growing and learning and our love for each other right along with that.
We traveled to California. Steven went on business to Philadelphia for a week. Evelyn and Ivy got their first diagnosis of strep just today, which is pretty much a rite of passage in childhood. I had fun painting an old desk for the girls yesterday. We've had our fair share of colds and stomach flu for both Ivy and me at separate times. We just took down our artificial Christmas tree today, an inadvertent record for us. Our dog is ever faithful and turning white on her face. Our cat insists on escaping out the front door whether or not there's a snowstorm blowing outside.
I am in the beginning phases of night-weaning Ivy and am seeing good results already. She literally was nursing up to a dozen times a night the past few months and I can't put up with that any longer. She's being a trooper about it, if you look past the massive tantrums of kicking and hair pulling that happen in the middle of the night. I am hopeful!
Evelyn is getting really good at writing all of her letters and is liking numbers and addition right now. Playing with her neighbor friends is her biggest daily goal, which she pursues in earnest. We are trying to figure out how to handle her education as she'll be a kindergartner in the fall. Yikes! I don't know how we got here already! We've put in applications at local charter schools and are considering that option or perhaps tackling her education ourselves at home.
I turned 31 this month and enjoyed going out to dinner with Steven and spending time with our girls. I got a great new camera, which I am hoping to put into good use.
Of course there are a million little details, but in all their sum equates a good life, a blessed life with daily challenges and frustrations which are only outnumbered by sweet kisses, goofy laughter, friendship and a good sense of how humbling it is to have this.
