Tap, Tap, Tap...is this thing on?

Hi. So...(crickets chirping)...it's been awhile! I took a two week blogging hiatus to get caught up on the post Christmas organizing. Still not sure where to put all the new toys the kids got but I'm okay on letting that slide for awhile since we'll need to change their room around anyway. Why you ask? Because Toby is this close to being able to climb out of his crib on his own. So I've been checking Craigslist for wooden bunkbeds.

Anyway, things are pretty much back to normal around here. We celebrated Epiphany by going to Value Village and getting new pants for everyone. I truly hope that becomes a family tradition that we do every year. Kind of like the day after Thanksgiving when everyone gets new socks.

We're also reading The Tale of Despereaux as a family. We only a have a few chapters to go and then we're going to see the movie. We highly recommend the book and it's great for reading aloud. We're probably going to read through The Chronicles of Narnia as family next but if anyone else has a good family reading recommendation I'd love to know about it.