My name is Janet, and I'm an AWFUL Blogger...

For the handful of you who even look at this, I am truly sorry. I have no excuse. Things just get real busy around here. So mea culpa mea culpa. Sorry.

As you can see, we had a great Christmas. (Christmas. When was that? Like almost 2 months ago!!) The boys got aiong great with their cousins. Joe is super sweet and Tabitha is simply amazing. That girl is a wonder. She is so beautiful and independant. She really held her own among the boys. Sammy was so smitten that when they had to go home after the first day they came to visit, he cried because she had to go. He kept calling her "Tabida, Tabida...".

Joe and Henry really bonded over Joe's computer and Henry's Nintendo DS that he brought along with him. They both got a Dr. Who Sonic Screwdriver for Christmas and they spent the majority running around in pretend play.

The weather was milder than usual, although it still rained. Louise and Keith took all of us to a place called JUMP for Tabitha's 2nd birthday. There they had all sorts of structures to climb and slide on, ball pits, and a trampoline. Henry's favorite part, by far, was being able to shoot the plastic balls from a cannon on top of the structure to us down below. If Henry had his way, he would have spent every day of our vacation there. My only beef, and this is a little one, was that the exchange rate was awful high. It was basically 2 dollars for every English Pound. Expersive. All in all, the whole trip went by awful fast but, we had a great time.

It took some time for us to get over the jet lag. Poor Matt, who had consective trips to Vegas and San Francisco right after we got back, got so sick with the cold that his boss cut his trip short and I had to pick him up in San Francisco. Not to worry though, we've all fully recovered.

School is back in full swing for both the boys. Henry has started having spelling tests every week. He's doing really well - getting a perfect score every time!

In fact, he was doing so well that on February 11th I got up at 4:30 in the morning, stood in line for 5 hours at Toys R Us in the rain to get Henry what he's been coveting since last summer...The Nintendo Wii As you can see it's a total success. We got back from getting a Monday off for Lincoln's birthday, all Henry could say at school was "We got a Wii!!"

Henry's been really good though. He has to finish all his homework, work on his math facts, or do some reading before he gets to play. It's amazing to watch, really. I can almost understand why everyone wants a console. All the games are made so that you basically have to move around the entire time. The console came with a Sports game and then I bought two other games. Even I enjoy playing it and I am by no means a game fanatic. I guess there are some problems with specific games but, the ones we have, have been great to play.

Anyway, that's it for now. Again, I'm sorry for being such a bad blogger. If there is anyone out there who still looks at this, thanks and take care. Till next time.