December Blog Post

I think it's so pathetic that I'm down to only one blog post a month. I still think it's because the laptops are busted, but I do occasionally sit down at my desktop or put the less-broken laptop on that one place on the dining room table where it can get a wireless signal, and I still don't blog. I play Bejeweled Blitz. I might be over that now, though. Now that I have an iPod Touch and can play Bejeweled any time I want, it's really lost its appeal.

Speaking of the iPod, I have finally realized my dream of having the app I've been wanting since I learned there was such a thing as an app, or maybe since Soren turned two: Time-Out. Enter age of child, press the "Start Time-Out" button, and it's on. When the child gets up or hits you as you walk by, you press the "Restart Time-Out" button. The app includes support for up to four children, so when Sigrid turns two, she can, and will, be added to the disciplinary system.

Maybe I've just been too busy to blog. The holidays have been great -- lots of time with family, playing games, eating good food (Christmas goose!), sledding, and relaxing. The relaxing equation may be a little lopsided right now, since Mom, Richard and Kelly Ann are currently taking care of Soren and Sigrid while Chris and I sit in a house in New Hampshire with our friends quoting the internet and pondering cake and eggs for our second breakfast. Thanks, Mom, Richard, and Kelly Ann! I hope the kids aren't screaming too much!

Nah, the kids are really good and fun. In fact, in a cruel twist of fate, Soren hasn't required a time-out since I downloaded the Tine-Out app. Don't think I'm not sitting with my finger on the button, waiting for him to ignore a warning, though. Anyway, Soren has been a lot of fun lately, and really enjoyed last week's snow, especially sledding at the park down the street. He's been way too chicken to enjoy sledding until this year, so it's a nice change. On one run, he even got some vertical going over a jump, then slid into a mesh barrier and fell over; we waited for the crying and demands to go home, but he surprised all of us by jumping up and yelling, "That was AWESOME!!!!!"

Sigrid is proto-walking and proto-talking, meanwhile. She says "MAAAAA-MEEEEE!" in a demanding tone, "Daaaaa-deeee!" in an adorable, loving tone, and "nom nom nom" when she sees food. And "ohhhhhh-ohhhh-ohhhhh BEEEEE!" when she wants to read So Big.

It's been an increasingly good 2009; here's to a uniformly great 2010!