Look Outside

Are pigs flying?  They might be, because I am actually blogging.  WHAT.  I know.

It's been over 10 months since my last post and that itself was a catch-up post, so....yeah.

Life is just.....gloriously busy.

It has been almost a year since I returned to work -- fortunately by choice, not necessity!  Our budget, now including child care for Averie and Declan, would be the poster child for "maybe it makes more financial sense to stay at home" but it has absolutely been the BEST move ever for our entire family.  More on that later (disclaimer: "later" may be another month or two....or five...from now).

So the fastest rundown ever:

Chris loves his job; they love him (this is starting to sound like a Primary song).  We're both grateful that he found a field to build a career in, that he will be happy in, and to have found a company that really values their employees the way EMC does.

Me: see aforementioned job.  Also, MS seems to be holding steady so that's another positive.

Averie went from almost zero functional language at this time last year to speaking in full sentences, telling long stories about her day, and really, other than articulation troubles (some normal for her age, some not), she is entirely caught up to her peers.  

Declan started crawling, then he had surgery to get ear tubes and remove his adenoids when he was 13 months old.  During the surgery, a code Blue was called -- TWICE -- and he was grounded forevermore.  Since then, he has also started talking (thank you for sparing me the grief of two kids with speech delays) and walking.  Again, more later.

Non-smartphone-camera pictures are in short supply these days; shame on me.  But I will go to my Facebook and diligently move some of my favorites uploaded there over here.  Right now.  Because if I don't, who knows how much longer it will be!  

Edit to add: OK, they are all down there!  If you have slow Internet, you may wish to leave this page up and come back later.  There are a lot! :-D