Hola mis chamos del bloggo. So I guess that by far the biggest thing that's happened since my last post is the birth of Holden and Emily's son, Rivers. It's been a bit of a shaky start, but it sounds like things are going better and better for him with each passing day. You guys are troopers--we love you and we're praying for you. Here's hoping that Rivers' health will contine improving and that he'll be able to go home with his family soon.
As for us, well, Ting-Ting is a sweetie, most of the time. We're in the process of potty training her, and things are going well, with only one embarrassing accident so far. And when I say embarrassing, what I mean is, in sacrament meeting. During the actual, you know, ordinance of the sacrament. We had to rush her out of the chapel and change her into some sweatpants kindly donated by another couple in the ward, who just happened to have them because their own child occasionally has l'il ol' accidents of her own. We then got to enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime experience of cleaning up the pee stain using a Child Stain Remover kit Alyssa had donated for the nursery back when she was a nursery leader, like three years ago. Oh, the irony. I hope Ting-Ting reads this someday when she's a teenager and is all like "FA-ther! How COULD you? If Thaddeus Hotboy in third period Interpretive Dance reads this, why, I'll simply DIE!" Ah, teenagers. Can't wait.
Other than that, we've been having a lot of fun as a family. We went to St. George a few weeks ago to visit Ye-Ye and Nai-Nai (Grandpa and Grandma), and good times were had, although the visit was cut a little short when Ye-Ye and Nai-Nai had to go to Salt Lake when Rivers was born. But Ting-Ting had fun and even seemed to enjoy the dogs. (Okay, "enjoying" meaning "watching them on the porch from inside the house." But that's a step in the right direction, hmm?) Last week we went swimming at the rec center, and Ting-Ting went down the big water slide about six times. The first few times, she didn't seem quite sure whether she wanted to laugh or cry afterward (it was kind of a mixture of the two, actually), but the next several times she had a blast. A few days ago Alyssa took her, Trey, and Ramona to the zoo, and apparently she loved that too, especially the giraffes.
So pretty much all of my free time during the last month has been spent writing an interactive murder mystery for Brayden's birthday party next Saturday. It's a Harry Potter-themed mystery called "Harvey Pooter and the Deathly Death Curse of Death" wherein the skeleton of the hated Professor of Elixirs, Severmore Snoops, is discovered in his office and everyone has to figure out WHO DUNNIT. It's going to be a triumph of hilarity, with all of the crazy-go-nuts mayhem you come to expect from my work, such as a character named "Sir Nigel Hotpants" who's the newest professor of "Protection Against Bad Juju" and uses his psychedelic hippie pants to hypnotize his foes. And did somebody say "Harvey Pooter does the moonwalk?" Yeah, this is gonna be good.
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