Okay, So it's been almost two years since I posted on this blog. Life has been a little out of hand I guess. In the meantime, Camille and Jake have a beautiful baby girl who will turn 1 this week, and Camille has done a great job of blogging little Kennedy's pictures. Erinn now has a blog for her baby girl, Athena, who is going to be 8 weeks old this friday.

Me, I feel like I have been trying to nail jello to the wall for the past few years, as I have tried to keep Matthew out of trouble in the midst of our busy family life. Matthew is 3 1/2 and he can ride a scooter, bicycle, skateboard -- he can belt a baseball when you toss it to him. too. We put special locks high on the doors in the house -- he climbs up on things and unlocks them. He is especially attracted to the basketball hoop in the neighbor's yard across the street, so he loves to dash across the road if I am not looking. Inside the house he can get into almost as much trouble-- drawing on walls or in books, checking out how the toilet works, or how to operate the sewing machine, computer, stovetop. He likes to tie knots in any long thin item, preferably to dangle from the upstairs railing. The easiest way to keep him busy is to give him a roll of masking tape and let him go at it. He tapes together the table and benches, random bits and pieces, the doorknobs and the pillar in the family room, maybe the bike or a stuffed toy too. He has a very busy mind and it's a challenge to try to think one step ahead of him.

Abbie and Rachelle have been playing soccer. Their team name is the Sparkles. Austin, Mike and Erik just finished up acting in the musical "Beauty and the Beast" with the Cobb Children's Theatre. It doesn't sound like much, but wow, I am tired.