Happy New Year! We're having fun out in Olathe, KS this weekend. We're enjoying seeing Aaron, Amy, Ella, Amy's mom Marion, and the new little Caleb. He's going to be baptized on Sunday, and we get to be godparents again. We're pretty excited. It's nice to spend a few days relaxing and not working.

David's cousin Caleb was born this morning! Cousin Ella has a little brother! Amy did great, didn't even get an epidural and didn't need a C-section this time, and was only in labor for like 10 hours. We can't wait to see him in two weeks when we go to Olathe, KS for New Year's Eve weekend!

I'm staying home with David today. We've gotten a little bit of snow, not that that would keep me from going to work. I'm not afraid to drive in the snow, it's other people driving in the snow that I'm afraid of! But that's not why I stayed home. David had kind of a rough day at Grandma's yesterday, and he was very warm this morning. His temperature was 99 degrees when I was changing his clothes this morning, and he was pretty fussy. I think he may be teething again, so I figured we'd stay home today. Besides, I want to take a nap while he's napping today. I've been so tired!

Things are going well all around for the most part. Besides being more tired than I'd like to be, and having a cold/nasal issues for the past week or so, I've been feeling fine. David finally got covered by state insurance, so as soon as his card comes in the mail we'll make a doctor's appointment and we can see how big he's gotten! Adam's a couple weeks into his second quarter of the school year. He's very eager for his certification interview and with being done with school.

Merry Christmas, everybody! I hope you have a wonderful and blessed time worshipping Christ our Savior and spending quality time with the people you love.

Vacation pics are now up! You can see the nice suite we stayed at in Indian Point, just a few miles from Silver Dollar City.

David loves Wii bowling. He obviously needs help to play, but he tends to get the best score. Our game this evening ended as follows: Becky with 140, Adam with 169, and David with 235!!! Adam helped him this evening. Usually Becky plays the best, but David's just super talented... and we hadn't played in a while.

David had fun last night going trick-or-treating. He wasn't too sure about wearing the puppy costume in fromt of people, so he seemed kind of shy, but he still had a good time. He got lots of different kinds of crackers, and some candy, so the candy is for Mom and Dad!

We were trying to teach him how to say "woof woof", and sometimes he would repeat it, but not in front of anybody! So, he knows two animal sounds: the lion and the puppy dog.

We have some new videos of David on the video link from the homepage. He's a very smart boy!

David is walking all over the place. It is now his preferred mode of transportation. If he falls down or decides to sit down or whatever, he'll get up onto his feet and walk to move to somewhere else. He's doing really well walking, and we'll even let him walk in a store or restaurant some when he gets antsy in his highchair. He'll walk from the car into places holding our hands, it's pretty fun.

Adam started classes on Monday the 8th. He's ready to be done, haha. He's got lots of books to read and stays up pretty late most evenings to get the reading done. One week down, nine to go until fall break and vacation!

We're going to use my vacation days for this year during his first week of fall break, the week before Thanksgiving (November 18-23). We got two 1-day passes to Silver Dollar City at Our Redeemer's trivia night back in February. We're going to go there on November 19th during their Christmas festival, which is always so pretty. Then we're going to go to Kansas to visit Aaron, Amy and Ella, and we'll leave from there on Ella's third birthday.

Work is still going well. We're very busy, as our department needs two more people, and so I worked some overtime the past two weeks, and probably will again this week. I like the work and most of the people there, so it's been good.

David is walking now. He started taking a few steps at a time about a week ago. At this point, he'll take up to 10 to 20 steps at a time. He finally figured out that it's something he can do when he wants, and it's not just something that everybody was trying to make him do.

He loves to climb on things, grab things from low tables to throw on the floor after he puts them in his mouth, and he loves to dig in the small trashcans. He also likes his refridgerator magnet barn and animals that he got from Grandma & Grandpa Wesche for his birthday. There's a new video of him dancing along to the music from the link on the homepage.

Work is going well for Becky, she is still enjoying her job after 3 weeks of being there. Adam still has 2 weeks before his Fall Quarter starts at Concordia Seminary, so he's still working full-time hours, as well. We spent some time hanging pictures/framed art yesterday, so we're pretty settled now.