Busy, busy, busy!

Fall is here, and it's beautiful! We had some friends here this past weekend, and were able to spend some time on the Harvard Business School campus in Cambridge. Just a great campus, and a beautiful day.

Colin's on new medication. Ahhhh...it's such fun to try to muddle our way through life with him! He seems to be responding well. He's a little "jittery" for a couple of hours immediately after dosing, but is overall more even keel. He continues to be such a sweet kid. It's frustrating (to ALL of us, including him!) that there still are times when he's just "overloaded" in the sensory department. You'll tell him to calm down, and he looks at you with frustration & says, "I can't!". Which, darnit, is almost true!! Who can blame him for spinning around in circles, flapping his arms, and singing?! Honestly...there are times when I consider that doing just that may help me get through a day myself!!

We are having a huge harvest party here this weekend. It's a tradition we enjoyed with Eric's mom & her husband for the past few years, and now it's moving to our house. There are currently 50+ people coming...26 of those children. Yikes! It's gonna be great, but the preparation is consuming most of Mommy's energy & brainpower! It's gonna be an old-fashioned, hay riding, apple bobbing, costume judging, game playing, bonfire having good time. I'll be sure to post pictures...particularly of my costume...which isn't to be missed! Eric, of course, is going as...well...himself. What a party animal.

Sydney & the potty

So, for those of you who thought you may get to hear about the potty "training" adventure...sorry. Make that officially potty "trained". Sydney is now a full week in her very favorite & much talked-about new underthings. Let the record show that she has now peed in just about every potty in every place we have been for the past few days. I now know that WalMart has very clean potties, and that our local bank branch has a very yucky "private" potty. (Which we would NOT have visited had it not been for our girl yelling I NEEDAH POOOOOPY at the very tippity top of her lungs whilst we waited in the teller line. They took pity on us!)

So, Sydney is now diaper free, and I look forward to figuring out where to allocate the new unspent diaper funds...perhaps I should take myself out for margaritas once a month instead?!

Pictures from Summer, 2006

The house in "full bloom" this summer. Colin LOVING the beach.

Sydney having fun in the pool. She's not dramatic, or anything!
Teaching the kids to be GENTLE at the petting zoo.

Here we go!

We're off! So many of those near and dear to us are just too far away to properly keep in touch. So--we've started this site so that everyone can stay "in the loop". I'll post the big stuff as well as the "minutiae" of our lives. We'll be posting photos, too. So, bookmark the page--and we invite you to visit often. After all--is your day really complete without hearing about potty training and our family trips to the zoo?!

We love you, and thanks for playing!