I just realized I never posted the cause of those pesky ‘check engine’ lights… Rats! They ate through some wires… pretty scary. The van is happy now, and there are boxes of rat poison half-eaten in the garage. Let’s hope that’s the last of them.

There’s really not much going on around here… we’re back into our normal daily life again… tax season has officially begun and I’m thrilled to be doing returns again. I absolutely can not wait to be working from home full-time. I have to work at Orrtax until 6 two or three days a week for the next four weeks and I hate it.

Christian is signed up for baseball again. The season starts April 1 and he’ll be on a machine-pitch team this year. He just finished Semester 3 of Kindermusik’s Young Child class. Just one more semester and he’ll graduate. He gets to start playing the recorder next week. He has also been enjoying going to Kid’s Club at church every Wednesday night. They’ve been learning about different cultures and he was really excited to take one of our Usborne books to class (his Children’s World Atlas). He’s been reading a chapter book to me, one page a day, and he’s been sounding out some really big words. He’s still a bit stumped by some really easy words, so he has some work to do, but he’s definitely doing better.

Brandon is still not really thrilled with Kindermusik. He still thinks none of the kids are his friends. He’d rather stay home by himself. We’re going to keep him going, though. At least in the Fall, he should be able to start the Young Child series too and learn notes. I think he’ll do great. He loves to sing.

Alyson is starting to have terror-tot moments. She shrieks and screams to get her way. But most of the time, she’s still our easy-going happy little walker. It’s fun to see her walking around.

Well, I think that’s about it for now… let’s hope we can continue this ‘no big news’ streak we have going