Updates....

Haven't posted in a while so I figured I would.

Odin has got all kinds of words now. He says "ba" for his bottle because we've weened him. He knows "dip" for dipping food in various sauces. He distinctly calls me "dada" now. He's really smart too; he figures stuff out. When he can't get through a door, he says "keys" and he'll take the first key ring he finds and try it on the door. Also, this morning I told him to go find his pants and he went strait to them and tried to put them on!

We're having a bit of trouble with him though; he seems to have hit the terrible twos a little early. He hits people intentionally and when we tell him not to do something, he just laughs and does it intentionally. It doesn't really bug us much, we're dealing with it fine, but its a little concerning. I started putting him in time-outs in his crib and it seems to be teaching him what he can and can't do. He's still really destructive though. He'll get anything out of any drawer or cubboard and play with it, even if it's dangerous. He opens the dishwasher to stand on the door and get up onto the kitchen counter, and we're constantly finding him on top of the dining room table. He takes any chance he gets to pull something off a shelf and throw it all over the floor, and he always goes places he's not supposed to. Plus, he's so fast that if you leave the front door open for only half a second, he'll get out, go up the stairs, and be inches away from the street by the time you catch him.

We're really feeling the hurt from moving now. All our money is gone. Luckily, every bill is payed, and we get our Financial Aid money again at the end of September, so our only problem is that we don't have any "play" money. But we're working on that.

Our band, Odyssey is doing well. Alyssa and Emily have been re-mastering some of the songs and re-recording a few vocals. We're getting reviews on GarageBand and Soundclick. Alyssa is helping me finish a song I wrote on my guitar for the band and they're rehearsing one of Alyssa's new songs. Speaking of which, Alyssa has some new songs up on her page if you care to listen.

We've got all our classes picked out and we're really excited about them. I don't want to get into detail right now but I'll describe them after the first few days of class. We're doing the same thing this term as our last terms; we alternate who has class and who watches Odin. This term, there is one overlap for 2 hours on Fridays but our good friends Ann and Emily are going to come out and watch him when that happens. The bus is literally 20 feet from our front door and it leaves as an express strait to and from school every 10 minutes so we barely have a total of half and our of transit each day, compared to our 2 hours each day when we were going to LCC.

I really like not having the internet, its helped our family grow together better. And I don't mind long posts like this; I think it actually works rather than tons of small posts that don't seem important.