What's Going On

The hugest news in our lives is the arrival of a little sweet pea named Teagan. My sister Em and her husband Kris have a new baby as of April 17th. He is a cutey and we are VERY excited to meet him in June. I am quite uncomfortable not being in Colorado with the new family, making chicken soup and such. But clearly with my own two kids in tow, I would be more of a burden than a boon under such circumstances. But Lucy and Jasper both love babies and we are all saving up our love for that little man.

In more mundane news, we've got kale growing in our garden window. Soon it will be in our garden; as soon, that is, as it stops snowing and hailing and being freakingly freezing cold. We have had several lovely spring days and many lovely spring moments, but they have been short-lived.

Lucy is ever-hopeful, drawing and painting lots of flowers and sunshine.

Pop Pop turned 66 last Sunday and we had a family gathering to celebrate. Those are not owies on Jasper's face -- just smoothie. We hadn't seen our neice Brianna for while; her beautiful 14 yr old self is now many inches taller than me. Oh well...



We had a reunion with the famous four girls who have "known" each other since Penny Simpkin's childbirth class. Three of the girls anyway and one more joined soon afterwards. Now they all have younger sibs - including twin boys born in December. It was quite amazing to see the big six yr old girls running around together...