Simon and Dylan getting ready to sled. We found an awesome spot to sled last weekend. It's an old gravel pit, I think, the hill's pretty steep but not to long, and some water has pooled up at the bottom and froze, so when you sled down you go shooting across the ice. Simon and I rode down on the same sled and fell off right before the ice and slid all the way across without the sled. It's a pretty fun spot. I put a new video on youtube. Just go to youtube and type curtisfamilyrepublic into the search thing and it should come up. Simon told us he could wiggle his ears when they got home from a New Years Eve party tonight. It's weird, but funny. I don't think I've ever seen anyone wiggle their ears before. We're going sledding again tomorrow, I'll try to take some video and post on you tube. Happy New Year everybody!

Christmas

This is the Playmobil castle set that we (Faith and I and her parents) got the boys for Christmas. It took us 3.5 hours to put together on Christmas Eve. We started a 930 and finished a 1 a.m. I think Dylan had a hard time believing it was real when he woke up the next morning, as he kept asking "Is this a castle!? Is it really a castle!? Is this a castle!?" They've been playing with it pretty much non-stop since 6:00 Christmas morning, with brief interludes for sleep and the occaisonal Mario Olympics Wii game with me. Notice I didn't mention food in their approved things to stop playing for. They pretend to come and eat, but they take one bite of food and then say they're full and go back to playing with the castle again. It was a pretty good Christmas overall, we opened presents and then just played with all our new stuff the rest of the day. Not much else is going on. We haven't been doing anything lately. We did go to Spokane a couple of weeks ago and spent the night at a hotel with a big water slide, but the boys weren't tall enough to slide on it alone, and they wouldn't let me stand at the bottom to catch them unless we were the only ones in the pool, which only happened for about 15 minutes, so that was kind of a bust. Faith did her best to drown both herself and Dylan in the regular pool, though. The pool goes from 3 feet deep to 7 feet deep in about 2 steps. Faith was holding Dylan and stepped a little to far. I would rate both of their swimming abilities somewhere between a chunk of lead and a big rock. I turned around to see Faith completely under water, raising Dylan above her head as high as she could reach, which was still about 8 inches short of his head being out of the water. I swam over grabbed Dylan, and started heading for edge of the pool. Remembering that Faith doesn't have life insurance and somebody has to watch the kids while I'm at work, I swam back, grabbed her arm, pulled her up so she could get a breath, and pushed her to the edge of the pool. She didn't even say thank you.

Hope everybody had a good Christmas.