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I seem to have neglected my blog! We have been so terribly busy here for the last few months. It seems like things are just starting to wind down, only to wind back up next week! I am going back to work starting Monday! I am so blessed to have such a flexible job with such accomadating bosses. I will be working M-F 5:30-8:30 AM!!!! It seems bad, but I am so happy. I don't work any weekends or evenings so there will be lots of family time AND my kids will only be awake for 1 hour while I"m at work. Dave is rearranging his schedule so that he can work 9-5, so he will be in charge of getting the kids up and dressed and fed for school. That will be an adjustment for everybody!

I have been doing a fitness bootcamp for the last month and it has been amazing! Hard.. YES! but such a great workout. Its at 5:30 in the morning and the last day is this Friday. I've already signed up for the next one (but in the evening.) I've also been running twice a week and doing a fitness class on Saturday morning. I've never been in such great shape (or so hungry!)

Daves new book is coming out in two weeks and we are all so excited. He has been working (or talking) about this one for the last 3 years so its been a long time coming! Its a graphic novel about Helen Betty Osbourne and they are planning on using it in some school curriculums. I hope this leads to big things for him :)

Emily LOVES kindergarten. And she hates that she doesn't get to stay all day like some of her classmates. She has learned so much already, she almost knows how to read and loves doing MATH PROBLEMS! That makes me so happy because I love math :) She also started fiddle lessons (she has been asking to take them since she was 3!)

Cole is in nursery school two mornings a week with some of his cousins and he is enjoying it as well. He gets mad when Emily has school and he doesn't. He has also learned how to swim almost an entire width of the pool! He has also learned how to be sneaky when he is misbehaving! I have to laugh about it but not until he is out of the room. HA!

And finally my precious Anna! She is such an amazing little baby. So happy and pesonable. She now walks around the furniture and crawls around but has little to no interest in walking. Fine by me! I know after Cole (he walked at 8 months) that its okay for them to wait awhile. She also knows the signs for food, nurse and all done. She is so proud when she uses them too but thinks that she should get what she wants IMMEDIATELY after doing the sign. She has quite the scream!

So thats it around here. We go from one thing to the next to the next to the next all day every day. Its tiring but so worth it. It'll be interesting to see what happens next week when we all have to get used to our new routines. I'm most worried about Anna and how she will react to not being able to nurse until 9, but she is 11 months and should be able to stand it :) We will continue with the go-go-go until after Christmas when we have rented a cabin at High Lake in Falcon Ridge for a few days. No tv, no internet, no phones! I can't wait!!