Hello!

I'm back! We have been having internet problems since the 1st, but we seem to be up and running now.

Our New Year's Eve was as fun as always and Oliver and Felix actually stayed up until midnight! I hope they will not consider that a precedent for future years. It was just that we had so much fun with the party that it was about 11:00 by the time everyone left and 11:30 before they were in bed. And at that point it seemed silly not to let them watch the ball drop! Here is this year's annual group photo. We have the same friends every year and have a ping pong tourament with a trophy that goes home with the winner each year. I have never won and never will.

We had our first glimpse of life as usual - three of us went to church. I had to go grocery shopping because of living with one car. Thaddeus is in theory going to arrange for my car to be towed this afternoon. What an ordeal.

Felix went to his Children's Choir rehearsal and loved it! Very cute.

Not too much else to report. Oliver will reach the two week mark with his leg brace and foot brace thing tomorrow. Only four weeks to go until..... probably until we find out how much longer he has to wear it.

We are looking forward to Florida more than ever because it is too wet and cold for Oliver to go outside here with his toe exposed. He and Felix are now lying under the dining room table pretending to be cats in the sun. There is a lot of hissing and scratching.

Lucia