Overdue update

For some reason I have been out of the blogging mood. I think the holidays zapped it out of me somehow. But I may be getting beyond that finally. So what's new in my house??

Well, I am fine. Work is starting to rev up for the big spring field work season. So we are buried in putting out proposals and bids for upcoming jobs,and getting organized for jobs we know are coming up. I am trying to figure out what I want to try to do given the breastfeeding/pumping issues and just not wanting to be away from home much.

We turned off the cable a couple of weeks ago after many months of contemplation. Is is a comforting feeling to me to just come home and zone out to a mindless show. But then I felt like I was wasting away at the same time. And then the babies would turn and stare the moment it would go on so we decided enough was enough and had it disconnected. So what have I been doing with all my free time? Well, I have started exercising again. Lifting weights and going to play basketball at the little Skamania grade school just down the road. Right now just a couple families come but it is fun to shoot around. Unfortunately Greyson and I have to take turns going since the girls go to bed so early. I have also been playing some games with Greyson, practicing the guitar again and watching some movies we borrowed from a friend. So I still get a bit of TV action but only after the babies are asleep.

Baby Front- All's good. Once in a while I come home and Greyson is ready to run out of the house screaming but mostly he loves being home with them. I really love my time with them in the mornings before work, I just wish they would sleep in a tad longer. But they are such sweet, happy babies most of the time. Samia now knows how to move across the room using a slow log roll to get to some item of interest. The other night she managed to wrap the video game controller cord around her body three times. Piper can roll both ways but doesn't realize that she can actually get somewhere yet. They are starting to love their "solid" foods, if you can call applesauce and mushed sweet potatoes "solid". Samia's new noise is to make a coughing sound about 10 times in a row. She thinks it is really funny, especially if you do it back to her. Piper prefers action and will give you a giggle if you lift her high in the air, dip her body backwards or have her fly in to get her sister. I think Piper is starting to look less like a boy now that the hair is getting longer. Ada has been very good with the girls and doesn't seem frightened or bothered by them at all... yet. We will see once they start crawling. The girls have started to "pet" the cats, which mostly involves grabbing fir and wiskers, but the siamese still seem to put up with it as long as they are getting some kind of attention.

I almost forgot.. Greyson has been on this incredible cleaning freakout! I love it. The house is sooooooo clean. I just try not to mess anything up when I am home. He even made the dreaded Costco trip last week.

I need to go to bed. But I will be making a better blogging effort from now on.
-Mel