3 Items of Business

Number 1: We are getting sleep!
Caleb is turning into a really good baby. I know I've complained a lot about him and compared him to Emily who is and always has been a very easy child to deal with. Lately though, he is holding his own. For the past week or so he has been going to sleep around nine and waking up around seven, usually with one feeding in there sometime during the night. Keep in mind he is not yet three months old. Last night he didn't cry when we put him down and he actually slept all the way through without eating! I was planning to walk with a friend at 7:30 but we slept in until 7:45 and missed it! (Sorry Katharine.) I have not really had to use an alarm clock since Emily was born, so this really caught me off guard.

Number 2: Ant fodder.
Poor Miss Emily has been playing in some of the ubiquitous fire ant piles we have around our complex. I would have thought that she'd learned her lesson last summer, but she was probably too young. Take a look at her poor little brown paw!
This is three days post-trauma, so I guess you can't really tell. She is still swollen though and has bite marks. You should have seen it one day after.

Number 3: Advantages of being a poor student.
Recently we have had many of our electronic devices give up the ghost and leave us wanting/coveting sparkly new replacements. We have learned, however, that being too poor to act on these desires and having a little patience pays off.
Walking to a friend's house on Conference Saturday in April, we were offered a TV by a moving neighbor (whom we had never met before). We gratefully accepted and now Emily can dance along with the Wiggles again. She loves to point her fingers and do the twist. She can also practice her high kicks along with the cheerleaders in HSM3 and show her support for Troy and the Wildcats.
Joseph was on the lookout for another computer since our desktop turned into an expensive leaf-blower. His heightened senses led him to notice a neglected laptop gathering dust in the corner of his lab. After a few inquiries he was granted use of it for probably the rest of his graduate career. We have since assimilated it into our household. Joseph can use it for presentations when he needs, and we can use it as a desktop machine the rest of the time.
Total cost to replace both our television and computer: $0!