Happy New Year!

Hi, everyone! We hope you all had a great New Year's! We had a wonderful time at our second-annual Kidpalooza New Year's celebration hosted by the Bartels. It was much more fun this year with the kiddos, since all of them are mobile now. It's kind of amazing to think that last year, only Logan and Evan could sit up on their own for pictures, and now they're all walking and jabbering, becoming little people of their own.

We had a new addition to the gang this year--Jen and Ben's neighbors brought their four-year-old, and wouldn't you know it? Logan became fast friends with him. He was the only one Logan wasn't trying to push over at one point or another that night. Still a ruffian...and still a sleepless wonder. Logan actually rang in the New Year with the adults and his new friend, who is also a sleepless wonder. We enjoyed our little celebratory "Logan sandwich" and then decided to take off so that Logan might get at least a few hours of sleep. As soon as we put him in the car seat, he closed his eyes, and he made the car-to-bed transition without much of a whimper. He woke up at 6AM, though, crying his little head off. After about an hour of that, off-and-on, he stayed asleep until 11:00 or so and woke up to his first New Year's sleep deprivation-induced hangover. Needless to say, we all did our fair share of napping, a fine way to spend a very cold New Year's Day.

Well, signing off for now. We wish everyone a happy, healthy new year!