Happy New Year!

We start off the year with some heartwarming sibling togetherness. The kiddliwinks have really been playing together lately. They chase each other around the living room and laugh and giggle and shriek and entertain each other for several ... minutes. Then they move on to joint Lego building or serve as medics and use the new doctor kit to give everyone in the room a check-up and a shot or two. Not everything is rosy, play time often interrupts into (unhappy) shrieking and a quick tug-of-war over a toy or tears because of some perceived injustice. But for the most part, they are having fun together. The recliner has become the number one spot for watching movies and they'll both climb up and settle in. It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone. 2010 was a tougher year than the past few but we made it through and we have a lot to look forward to in 2011. Glenn pointed out that this will be the year that we really start to move out of baby-land. We'll be getting rid of the crib and changing table in the next few months and we'll have a preschooler and an almost preschooler on our hands. We're planning a visit to Glenn's parents in Florida in the spring and hope to take the kids hiking and camping this summer. Will's going to take swimming lessons next week with Aunt Vicky and Reina wakes up in the morning and hands you her diaper before she gets out of bed. Lots of changes and exciting events coming up. One last note about 2010, I continued my tradition of starting the New Year off with a dirty condition and this year I chose Julie Child's Beef bourguignon as my experiment. Surprisingly it turned out well. It's not a quick meal by any stretch of the imagination but it was tasty and allowed me to break out the cast iron dutch oven that Santa brought me on Christmas. Happy New Year!