Here I Am

Hi Everyone – I’m taking a shot at blogging to try to keep folks better informed of what’s going on with me and my family.  Wow…signing up with Twitter and starting a blog in the same day…I may actually become technologically savvy someday!

Now, on to the family details:

Me.  Still playing the stay-at-home mom, at least until April 2009.  80% of the time I love it, 15% of the time I wonder if I know what I’m doing, and 5% of the time I’m looking forward to actually making money for what I do (i.e. going back to my PAID job).

Tom.  Tom is still working as an AGM at LACERS.  He mostly enjoys his work, when he’s not running back and forth to meetings.  He just finished playing softball with a local league and showed those younga playas he’s for real!

Ethan.  E just finished up another season of chess and won first place in his division (intermediate) at the chess tournament.  He tried joining a parochial T-ball league, but let’s just say the competition wasn’t there.  He’s looking forward to T-ball starting up next March or April.  Til then, I’m thinking about piano lessons…we’ll see.

Gianna.  G started speech therapy last week.  She’s enjoying her lessons – everything is like a game to her.  She’s enjoying school too – attending two days a week.  She still got her wild hair, of course!  The latest additions to her phrase book are ‘thank you’ and Elmo.’

Jenna.  JJ is getting evaluated for speech therapy this week.  Both G and JJ have great receptive language and good enunciation of their words, but the speech therapist is concerned about both of them failing to combine words into phrases.  JJ mastered ‘thank you’ a few months ago.  Her new favorite stuffed animal is Ethan’s old sea otter.  I’ve been hearing her in the morning lately just saying the phrase ‘sea otter!’ over and over.

You?  Feel free to leave an update in the comments!

Will try to post as often as possible.  We’ll see how often that turns out to be!