January

Wow. We have had such a big month of change, it's been incredible.

Nate's a full time walker, Simon is pretty much potty trained and they are happily sharing a room. That's big stuff! Matt is also well entrenched in his new job and is doing really well. He is waiting to hear back on a big project bid that he led the way on, fingers crossed!

Here are a few other things that have been going on:

Nate is learning to communicate and interact in new ways. He loves to give big open-mouth, sloppy kisses:



He also loves to do the movements to the Wheels on the Bus. Well, he does one movement, but that's ok.



Simon is still obsessed with Buzz Lightyear...

 ...and anything having to do with space and rockets. We watched a live launch on NASA's website on Wednesday and he was really into it:

He is desperate to watch Star Wars, he even carried one of the DVDs around with him and has toy lightsabers. We are going to wait a couple more years to show him the movies, but he's already trying to convince us to change our minds.

Otherwise, we have just been having fun together. I got a beautiful Kitchenaid Stand Mixer from Grandpa for Christmas, and Simon and I have been baking together a lot. We've made cupcakes, muffins, whole wheat bread and popovers, to name a few:

We have been doing crafts, taking "selfies" and playing together.