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I obviously have not been very good at blogging since Charlie has been born. I am a busy mom of 3 with a husband who has a fairly demanding job, so I am just claiming the obvious of at the end of the day I would much rather be asleep than on the computer.

Charlie just turned 1 year old. This is him moving boxes at Grandma's house so that he can slide down the stairs.



Around here we call Charlie the "book murderer." Charlie can take board books and within a few minutes rip it apart.


Charlie is also very skilled at screaming and attacking the kids. Hilarious! But to this day the funniest thing I have seen him do was "car jack" Daniel. We have one of the little tikes red and yellow cars and Daniel was riding in it, Charlie chased him down, opened the door and grabbed Daniel by the sleeve and ripped him out of the car. Then he got in and yelled at Daniel until Daniel started pushing him. I laughed so hard, and have tried so many times to get Charlie to do it again so I could video it, oh well.

Daniel has just started piano lessons, which he loves. Alice is finally loving to learn and really enjoys going to preschool. She also has discovered that it's not so bad to walk. She walked all the way to the school with me to pick up Daniel and then they raced each other all the way home. I love when they get along.

My little sister leaves on her mission to Philadelphia next week. This has caused a lot of mission discussion in our home lately. Mostly I am trying so hard to get more organized so that I can believe myself that we will actually send her mail. The best part about her leaving is I convinced my mom to order homemade chocolate truffles from our good friend and now we have a ton of them sitting in our house! The hard part is trying not to eat too many before they are delivered tomorrow.

Wow I guess today was a lot about nothing. Jason's left foot is healing pretty good although his right foot still seems to be bugging him. We also seem to finally not be sick for the first time in 5 days. That sadly is a record for the last 5 months. I am hoping that we never are sick that constantly again. Well that's about it for today.

Oh yeah! Here is our favorite thing about Daniel right now. He is always reading. I love it!

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