Welcome to the holiday season! I am woefully behind on blog updating and I haven't even started thinking about what to do for Christmas cards, but I still wanted to take a quick minute to give even just a small update.
The biggest news (which is old news to everybody at this point) is that we are moving this summer! Nick is joining the faculty at... drum roll...
Hurray! I am very excited to move into the South and I look forward to hearing Joe eventually say (in a Southern accent, of course) "Hi, I'm Joe and I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina!"
In not so happy news, Joe has been sick fairly often the past few weeks and it seems that the whole family has been suffering as well from the various illnesses Joseph has been catching (including poor Uncle J, who threw up rather violently for 24 straight hours over Thanksgiving break). Currently, Joe has a slight fever and has been generally "under the weather". Nevertheless, every morning without fail, he looks at us and says, "COAT! MARISSA! COAT!" Which brings me to my next (happier) topic: Joe's new best friend, Marissa.
(This is not an actual photo of Marissa, but it looks a lot like her.) Marissa is a little girl in Joe's class and apparently they spend most days playing together. Joe's teacher, Ms. Padma, says that they like to "make trouble together". When Marissa gets in trouble, Joe pets her and says, "Good girl. Good girl." Today when I went into Joe's class to pick him up, he was trying to show Marissa how to put her coat on.
Lastly, Joe's picking up more words every day and when he sings, it's much clearer. Joe Daddy recorded a singing session tonight with me and Joebert that I think you might like. It's just audio, so to get it to post on the blog, I had to make it into a "video" using an old farm picture. Enjoy!
My brother is coming to P-ton for Christmas and Aunt M is coming here for New Years, so you can look forward to some super cute posts in the not-so-distant future! See you next time!
