Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello all.

We have exciting news to share. Lily is rolling over from her back to her tummy. She has been doing this for about a week now. She's been doing belly scrunches...lifting her legs and moving around quite a bit in her crib for a while now and turning to sleep on her side. Finally she made it all the way over. Addison can do the belly scrunches and moves around a bit in the crib, but she seems pretty content to just stay on her back.

Addison had a big trip this past weekend. I went to Atlanta for planning meetings with ScreamFree and Addison went with. This meant driving to Columbus to fly to Atlanta and all of the packing, stuff lugging and security screenings that go with travelling with an infant. I must say the TSA folks in the Columbus airport were WONDERFUL. And there were also TSA folks in Atlanta...enough said. We also had more public nursing of an infant and even breast pumping than I would have ever thought I'd be comfortable with, but you do what you have to do. We left Lily and Mike with about 1/2 of her need in frozen breastmilk and returned with enough to restock the freezer. Mike will have to relay his experience as a true single parent. Suffice to say the stories told to me involved low grade fevers and ear piercing screams. But he did keep his promise to me and upon my return I found my daughter still alive.

Both of the girls are over 13 pounds now. Hard to believe they will be 5 months old next week.

Next week Mike is taking our 11 year old coonhound, Denuen, up to Columbus to the Ohio State University Veterinary School to have surgery on her anal glands...they've gotten severely impacted and have to be removed. She also has probably torn a ligament in her left rear knee and we anticipate that surgical repair to happen then too. Fortunately we feel a bit more comfortable with handling 2 infants so throwing in a convalescencing dog into the mix won't be too much of a stretch.

We bought a digital camcorder as our Christmas gift to ourselves. Here's our first attempt: