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I am sitting at my computer and all 3 kids are sleeping right now.  So I’m going to catch you all up a bit on our lives these days.<\/p>\n

Megan is doing fantastically.  The last couple of nights, she’s gone up to six hours without me.  I’m pretty sure she was only up once last night (I’ll be honest…I only remember one feeding, but I’m not sure… ).  Here’s to hoping she’s going to be an all-night sleeper very soon.  That would be absolutely incredible!<\/p>\n

We are finally finding a good way to deal with the fits Alex throws when his dad comes home.  Apparently, we were encouraging them, unintentionally, by paying more attention to him when he melted down.  Now he gets to sit on a chair until he’s done hollering and we go on about our evening.  Not only has the number of fits gone way down, but the length of the ones he has thrown is much shorter, too.  Lovely!<\/p>\n

Still not sure I’m finding good inroads into Erin’s strong will…but we’ll keep working!<\/p>\n

Erin has a cold this week.  On Saturday evening, I realized that her nose was running (totally out of the blue), and Sunday morning she woke up a bit congested.  It doesn’t seem to be a bad cold, but I’m doing my best to keep her from coughing on Megan!<\/p>\n

Yesterday was Parent\/Child Dedication at church.  We participated with Megan, so both sets of our parents were there.  Unfortunately, because of Erin’s cold we all had to sit in the Family Worship room, which is not a great option to do with visitors.  But I am glad we had the opportunity of publicly dedicating ourselves to raising a daughter who will love God!<\/p>\n

Just before we left for Kelly’s 8th birthday party on Saturday, Eric realized that our water heater was leaking.  Great…  But thankfully, both of our dads were at our house on Sunday morning, and the three of them got\/installed a new water heater after we got home from the Baby Dedication service.  And even better, I only had to have one cold shower!<\/p>\n

Have I ever told you how much I HATE cold showers?  I do.  I really do.<\/p>\n

I’ve found a bunch of free books for the nook\/Kindle apps on my iPod touch.  Good books.  New releases.  Good authors.  I’m excited.  I’d be even more excited if I had more time to read the books.  But hey…at least they will wait for me patiently in digital form.  I don’t have to return them to a library or anything…which I totally don’t have time for!<\/p>\n

Another cool thing is that I’m getting ready to dive into another writing project.  Hopefully, we can avoid the time crunch of the last one.  But I’m looking forward to the challenge again.  And what’s even more cool is that there may be even more writing projects in the future for me, because of these first ones.  That would be very cool, I think!  But for now, I guess I’d better just focus on the one at hand…<\/p>\n

Other Kid Updates (so I don’t forget all the fun stuff my kids are doing these days):<\/p>\n