Samuel has rolled several more times, but he's not fond of his parents giving him "tummy time" to enable the practice of that skill. He still has yet to get from his back to his front. All 3 boys participated in the Advent celebration at our church. Can you find them?


Samuel is in Mary's arms and did an incredible job, Stephan is Joseph and Sydney is the wise man in the lower right.

Samuel survived his 2nd round of shots Wednesday. He's just shy of 2 feet and weighed 12' 12" naked. We started him on a bit of rice Thursday but he wasn't sure how to deal with a spoon. I was able to get him to giggle the first time today.

Merrie's last check has come so we're on our own now. She'll start doing some part-time work for VNA in Jan to supplement what I make from Topshot Systems LLC. We look forward to see what God has in store for us. Merrie and I were driving back from MS a year ago today and discovered we were pregnant the next morning. I don't expect THAT to happen again, but we've got some potentially major things that will occur this year.

May you and your family have a safe and blessed Christmas.