Monday, June 28, 2010

One of Colleen's best friends, Annette, and her husband, Mike, welcomed their new daughter, Ella, into the world on June 21st in Delaware. Congratulations to them and good wishes to their "new" family.

above: the new family, Annette, Mike, and Ella

below: Colleen and Ella

Love,
Thomas, Colleen, Christopher, and "Baby X"

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Random Cell Phone Shots

Sorry folks. I've been terrible about keeping up the blog. Being the music teacher at the school has proven to be quite a challenge of late. All of the things that the music teacher would be involved with all sort of took place within the last month and my life has been very hectic. I had to co-facilitate a talent show (which went over very well with all the staff who went to see it), an evening activity called "Celebration of the Arts" which featured the Daily Living Skills and Art teachers as well as myself (also went off very well), and, the latest the high school graduation (messed up "God Bless America", but, in my defense, the lighting was very poor and I couldn't see the music at all. I totally winged it and totally crashed and burned about half-way through the piece. Gotta love it.

Colleen is feeling good, but she's ready to "get this baby out of me" of late. I can only imagine the discomfort these final weeks must cause and I really appreciate and respect tremendously what she and all the other mothers out there have to endure during the pregnancy. We still have stuck with the unknown gender thing. Of course, we have nothing done as far as the house is concerned preparing for the new baby. The new baby will go into Christopher's old room and he will go into our soon-to-be-formerly spare bedroom. I have to paint it and the room needs to be cleaned out in a very bad way. This does mean, however, that we are all bedroomed out now. The next step is an addition...whenever and if ever we can afford it, but that's another post for another day...probably a day far, far away.

Realistically though, there is probably little interest in the goings on of Colleen and Thomas and more interest in updated Christopher photos....here they are.

eating cake at Max's birthday party eating ice cream with Daddy

at the park with daddy in his KU outfit from Grammy

on a walk with Daddy on a local hiking trail