So, we've been pretty busy with the holidays and neither Jill or I have had a whole lot of time to blog. Biggest thing going on these days was Logan's 7th birthday - we celebrated at home last weekend and he had some friends for a party on Wednesday. Overall things went pretty well. It's getting to the point where birthday/Christmas shopping for the boys is kind of difficult. I mean, they have so many toys that most of them don't get played with as it is. This birthday was primarily LEGOs and a couple of Xbox 360 games, with a supplement of always-appreciated art supplies from Jan and Kathy. Logan seemed to be pretty satisfied with everything, although the wide-eyed reverence he gave to the 360 game was tough to beat. His birthday party Wednesday was at Chuck E. Cheese, which frankly I was looking forward to about as much as back-alley dental work. I had heard a lot about Chuck E. Cheese over the years, almost all of it bad, and I was prepared for the worst. Entirely unfounded, as the evening actually went off really well. Not too crowded, the place was fairly clean and if not for the overloud music loops blasting at certain points in the place, would have been almost perfect. As it was, the party turned out great.
Gearing up for the holidays now and hopefully we'll be able to see some of you over the next couple of weeks. It just occurred to me that we typically do one of those "Year-Ending Holiday Letter" things at this point on Cobapple to catch everyone up on what's been going on with us all year. You can't tell, but I just sat for 5 minutes thinking of all that I could write about and it wasn't much. So, here's the condensed version. Logan's been doing well in first grade, at times probably not being challenged enough, but he still seems to like school so aces there. Liam's been enjoying preschool, and we continue to fight the Sisyphean task that is potty training with him. I've spent the last year working Business Development here at work, learning all about the fascinatingly irritating world of politics and defense procurement. Jill's been doing everything else. We had a great vacation to South Carolina back in September (go read the archives if you missed it), and are thinking of trekking to Colorado for next year.
The boys are both doing well, and getting excited about Christmas. Logan is getting heavily into Indiana Jones, although we haven't let him see any of the movies yet (the LEGO versions are more his speed for now). Liam is basically into whatever Logan is into - the big brother worship is going strong. Right now one of his big things is bookmarks. Logan has been reading chapter books, and they're usually too long to finish in one night (or even two or three), so we've had to bookmark his spot. Liam thinks this is just tremendous. So now, he likes to call a sudden halt to his books about 2/3 of the way through as declare "OK - this is where we're leffing off." Then he'll stick in a bookmark and call it done. He's very proud of himself.
