Moving Along.....

So much has happened since I last posted.... here's an update: Bryant, having finished a brillant football career as quarterback at Alabama, has been accepted to medical school and doing missionary work in China. Elisabeth is enrolled at Harvard Law (early admissions), and Scarlette just won the Nobel Prize for physics. They've accomplished so much - we're so proud.

OK - it hasn't really been that long since I last posted, but it has been a long time (sorry) and major things have happened.  Our most exciting accomplishment: Bryant is walking!! Ta-Da! He went from crawling to walking in about a day. He still crawls on occasion, but walking is his primary mode of transportation. Yay, Pud-Bud!!!

His  - and Elisabeth's - primary form of defense is, unfortunately, biting. Bryant is particulary vicious with it. Luckily, he usually prefaces the bite with a loud growl so the soon-to-be victim is forewarned. Elisabeth, on the other hand, is very stealthily. She is biting you before you know it, and she leaves teeth marks. One of her favorite games is to bite my fingers and then laugh hysterically after I yell and try to remove my fingers. Before she laughs, she clamps down harder.

Elisabeth carries on long conversations - with us, with Scarlette, with Bryant, with anyone. No one can understand a word she is saying, but she is very earnest in her communications. She even cocks her head as she is speaking as though she is gauging your comprehension of the topic. I can't sing her to sleep anymore because when I start singing, she starts singing too and keeps herself awake. She is very social; she waves at any adult she passes. Bryant is rather shy.

They are 17 months old now, and I must admit that I miss my babies - as much as I adore my toddlers and enjoy enormously watching their daily new adventures.

Miss Scarlette recently completed her first (half) year of preschool and sang in the preschool graduation ceremony for the 4 year olds. A moment of panic for me - she refused to sing initially when she discovered that she was not the one graduating, but relented when she learned that she would graduate next year. She's put in her order for next year's rest mat (it must have an attached blanket) and has began reciting television commercials. Recently, she looked at me and said, "Mom, there's smart - and then there's K-Mart smart." Excellent marketing, K-Mart.

With summer begininng, VBS next week and vacations planned, I'm sure I'll have much more to say - and I promise to post more often. Thanks for reading!! Talk to you soon!