Been awhile...

...a long while! We were "internet challenged" for a few weeks. We made a change to our phone service and then began having problems with the line. Gave me flashbacks to those days before the internet existed...can barely remember that! Whatever did we do?

Life has been busy here. Some quick updates with some pics to follow hopefully sometime soon. Eric is still looking for work and doing a great job as a full time daddy right now. He passed the CBEST and is working towards the other qualifications to become a substitute teacher or after school program teacher. We're hoping maybe he can find something part-time that pays decent so he can still take care of the kiddos most of the time. It's better for them that way, and better for our budget. Props to all you families who have figured out a way to have a parent home with the kids!

Things around the office these days have been a little bit of a roller coaster with the state budget and county budget being uncertain. Tensions have been higher than usual, but I am thankful to have a job. It will be an interesting next 6 months or so I think. There are still huge budget deficits to be accounted for...which means more change is yet to come! In the midst of this I thought, why not try to finish school. I started class Tuesday and boy am I rusty! I hope to finish up the MA program in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling in a couple more years, although if something happens to my job too, I guess I could just be a full-time student and get'er done!

Cadence is growing and growing. Her language is really coming along, we can have conversations! Some of her pronunciation is still fuzzy so we work with her. If need be, I will use my social working skills and get her hooked up with speech therapy this summer. She can count to 20 (sometimes), and recognizes a handful of letters now. She and Sani play together at times now that he can handle some of her rough housing, and every night she insists on giving him a bedtime kiss. For her it's all about the little rituals and routines throughout the day. When those don't always work out, we sometimes have major tantrums on hands. We're managing so far...still all alive and accounted for!

Sani is developing by leaps and bounds and will be 9 months on Saturday. He is a lightening quick crawler, cruises furniture like a pro and can now take steps with only one hand being supported. He loves mealtime and gobbles up everything from baby food and toddler snack to bits of whatever we're eating. So far the only thing he has outright rejected is prune juice...who can blame him? He babbles up a storm, loves to jump, rock and bob to music, can clap and and wave hello and goodbye. He's got his first tooth with the second about to make its appearance. He is still a pretty sociable little guy.

So that's the latest and greatest on us these days! Hope everything is good in your neck of the woods. :)