Happy New Year...

What a year, we started off with a Tiny Lucas, that was are big excitement, This new little guy who joined our family, he has grown so much and learned a ton, it is really amazing. Just think, last year at this time he was just laying there eating, burping, and sleeping. Today he is running around keeping up with Allie and Milan, chasing down balloons, getting into the dishwasher, sitting on the couch where he climbed himself watching a cartoon. He laughs, talks, walks, and is a little man! And partly an Animal!
Allie has learned so much this year too, she grew about 3 inches and gained 5 pounds. She is beautiful and sweet, she is a great big sister, she love Luke so much, but as any good sister she beats him up a little, and makes sure he knows his place in the family. She has been in Dance class for 4 months now, and she loves that, and she is actually a very good little ballet dancer. She will be having a recital in June. Exciting up coming news is Allie is going to be in a preschool group starting next week, so hopefully that will work nicely, she will be starting Kindergarten in the fall! I can't believe she is that big already! That will give Luke and Mommy some fun time together. Adam of course has 3 semesters of Dental school left, he will be going to Dominican Republic in June for a required externship for school. Then we are planning to go on a little road trip around the East coast and New England area. Adam is just happy to be done what his is done in school, as school is always hard, painful and No fun. But he has been able to work on people 3 times a week, and has been able to go down to the Children's hospital and work on kids, which he has actually enjoyed quite a bit. This year I have been learning to juggle 2 kids, and a house and everything else I have to do. But I think we made it through ok. I am adding even more this year with the preschool stuff since I am going to be teaching 5 kids every 4 weeks. But the nice part is that we are now a 2 car family which will make my life much easier. No waking up super early to take Adam to school, No figuring out if I can fit a kids nap in before Adam needs to get picked up. No more missing out on fun stuff because Adam has the car. Adam doesn't have to worry about being late for school, and tests. Beating traffic, waking me up, all those things. Adam is the proud new owner of a 94 Cadillac Deville. It is a sweet old boat, Adam says the pace of life slows down while his is in his car, he feels like he has to drive slow since everyone expects the Caddy to be driven by an 84 year old.
So we have exciting things coming up, and hopefully we will get a bit smarter this year, do things smarter, and have fun being a family.

We celebrated the New Year with the Lamjav's (Amy Munich and Milan) and Dental school friends the Harkers (Tina Jesse and Noah) We played Nintendo Game Box, and ate yummy food, and drank some Lime Rickies, Martinelli's and Wegmans soda. We also had Yummy Cheesecake. The boys played Chess and the girls had fun talking, the Kids LOVED the Poppers and noise makers we go them. We turned on the TV just in time to see the ball drop and then we turned it off! That was about all we needed to see! We had a blast! Even if we all stayed up too late! Except Luke who went to bed at 8, smart kid!