Season’s Greetings!
Howdy! This is Marc doing the writing this year. On behalf of the rest of the gang I want to
wish everyone a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a most excellent day of
bowl-game watching January 1st!
Looking back on the
past year, I can’t recall much of anything happening before June 11th. David Andrew was born at around 8:30 a.m.
that day, an event that launched us back into the perilous waters of
infant-raising!
A note for those of
you who were not informed directly, as I was on several occasions: David weighed in at 8 pounds, 3 ounces and
was in possession of a 13 cm head (no doubt due to his need for a
larger-than-average cranial cavity).
Mitch and Jake have
taken to the little pupa pretty well; they can often be relied on to entertain
him for tens of seconds at a time! David
already is looking up to them and likes to grin and drool at them just as much
as he does at his providers.
We all took a trip up
to Mom and Tom’s place in August. Mitch,
Jake and I had many “great adventures” there including wading in a stream with
real live minnows and baby frogs and everything. We also went fishing in the pond with Grandpa
Tom. Tom and I both caught giant catfish
that the boys were afraid to touch (but not to eat). Mitch and Jake were able to cast their own
lures into the water, just like Monica’s Dad showed them, and nobody even got
hooked!
Since then things
have settled down considerably because Monica was in school 3 nights a week
this past semester. In other words, I had
3 chances a week to realize that I’m not cut out to be a Mommy!
Mitch and Jake go to
a pre-school program over at the local high school 3 mornings a week when
school is in. They are watched by the
teenagers as part of a class (and 1 actual teacher) and call the big kids “Miss
Tammy” and whatnot. In a preview of
things to come, Mitch’s teacher’s name (according to him) is “Nag”! It’s Meg, really, but he got the general idea
down on his first day of school!
As far as the adults
go, I am still working at FERA doing Visual Basic development and will get the
all-important 3rd week of vacation in March. Monica is getting close to having half of the
hours for a degree and will probably apply to Texas A&M or U of Houston
this year.
Well, seeing as I am
almost out of paper, I’ll wrap it up now.
Take care, everyone, and have a wonderful holiday season.
Love,
Marc, Monica, Mitch,
Jake and David