Eve is such a great sleeper! As I sit here
listening to Lex trying to settle himself down for a nap (by
jumping around, turning over tables, climbing on the changing
table, etc.) I wonder if she will always be a great sleeper.
She already sleeps more and more easily than he ever did,
though I suspect we’ll have our share of sleep-related problems
with her in the future too. I am very much enjoying our easy
sleeper for now :)

Lex has started blowing the minds of those
around him again. Just about anytime some one says, “careful,”
he’ll stop, look around, see the danger, and when appropriate,
lookup, and say as clear as a bell while shaking his head, “I
don’t want to fall and get hurt.” It literally sets people back
on their heels. God bless Love and
Logic.

He also shocked our
neighbor with his “applied physics,” as she puts it, when I
asked him to right her wheel borrow he had just tipped on its
side. It was empty, but it is one of those heavy metal ones
(ours is plastic and Lex could probably lift it over his
head).

So, he tugs on the handle he used
to tip it over, found too much resistance there. Immediately,
he walks around to push on the top-side, lifted it up enough
that he could get his other hand under the bottom-side, and put
it right up. He did it as smoothly and as easily as any adult
might have done with a proportionally sized wheel borrow.

She gushed for about 5 minutes strait. She
gushes about everything though. She’s great for the ego. Having
Lex for a son doesn’t hurt either. ;)

That’s right. I said it. My patent. It is
not pending anymore. It is now approved.

Tessa said I should post to the blog more and I confirmed
that it has become a family blog, not just a kid blog, so this
post is allowed. =)

Anyway, now we just
need to find $1000 to pay the USPTO to make it permanent before
July, and $5000 to file some extensions, but we’ll find the
money some where. We always do. DATDEC should be able to cover
most of it.

I’m still hoping to build a
prototype this summer, but getting DATDEC back into a
profitable state takes priority. We are setting up a server
farm but have to keep paying to host our servers else where
until that is ready. As soon as we have our servers in our own
space, I think I am going to put improvements to that business
on hold for a while and bang out this prototype.

We got about 1/2 hour at the pool today
before it started thundering. It was a lot of fun though. Lex
is such a water baby! Eve got her toes wet and seemed fairly
indifferent, but awfully cute!

The following photo contains me in a
bathing suit… consider yourself warned! :) Notice how I’m
hiding behind my tiny children? I get a kick out of bathing
suites that claim to reduce bulge, make you look slimmer,
lighter, flatter, etc. The bathing suit covers so little of
your body… no matter how slim my stomach may look, I think my
upper arms and thighs will give away the secret :) Oh well.
Swimming is fun anyway!

Lex was mad that he couldn’t get
back in the pool so he refused to smile for a picture. We took
several and this is the best of them. The promise of swimming
again on Friday didn’t seem to help. Friday is probably forever
to him :)

I love my kids!! They both took great naps
today (can you tell?) and this afternoon we are going swimming!
Lex loves the water and I think I’m going to put Eve in too.
See what she thinks. She’ll look so cute in her red polka dot
bathing suit :) I’ll try and take pictures!

More importantly…HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!! Lots and lots
of love from all of us.

What a lovely day today. Eve slept through
the night again and woke up around 6am. I was up at 5am to pump
(she lasts longer than I do!), then back to bed, up again at
6am to nurse, then she fell asleep so we went back to bed again
at 6:30. I laid down figuring I’d be up again in a few minutes
with Lex, but he slept until 7:45 (!!!) and then Alan got up
with him, so I ended up getting up for the day at 9:15am!!
Amazing. Eve was still sleeping and Alan and Lex were outside,
so I got a nice shower (I can’t remember the last time I got up
and right into the shower) and got dressed before Eve woke up.
Alan and Lex were outside all morning. I nursed Eve, then
grabbed a blanket and the newspaper and spent awhile outside
reading the paper and watching the kids play. It was great!
Alan is off to work now, so I’m on my own this afternoon, but
man what a great way to start the day!

Jim & Julie came up to visit yesterday (sparing us a
trip to MA this weekend) and with them they brought wonderful
news — a baby due in December!! Yay! I’m so excited! I like
babies :) So send your happy, healthy baby thoughts their
way.

Pictures from the playground this
morning…