Rolling toward the Stanley Cup...

Will started rolling from his back to his front this week. He is ready to go, now! I think he is actually a little frustrated by his inability to move forward. What will we do when he can crawl?!

Meanwhile, Blake is moving forward with his language skills. He has been saying, "Go Sabres," and "Let's Go Buffalo" since the playoffs began. But tonight he learned a new phrase, "Jaromir Jagr, Get out of here." (He calls him "Jamer" like his mom.) He is a budding hockey fan!

We're all going to the park almost daily. Will had his first swing in the baby swing this week, and Blake has taken off like a confident two-year-old. He no longer needs our help for much of anything except playful companionship, of course.

bananas and coffee

Will rolled over from his front to his back yesterday! He loves to play, now. He sits in his high chair and plays with toys while I cook and clean the kitchen. It's so much easier than doing everything one-handed! Maybe in a few weeks we will give him some banana to play with...

This morning Blake told me that he is going to drive an APUS (UPS) truck when he gets bigger. He doesn't need any help from Mommy either! And he is going to have "a cup of coffee a day." He told me this while he was naked and climbing over the back of the living room chair. We're potty-training. ;)

Today we are trying to prove that spring is here by going to the park for the fifth day in a row. It's beautiful!

Missed you!

I've missed writing to all of you! We're back online (onblog? I'm sure there is a technical word for that)! I'm planning to charge ahead in prose. I know you want pictures, but given my computer's deficits, it's words or nothing. Seriously, I will post pictures occasionally, but the drive that my camera hooks up to is dead. (It's a ton of work to do it another way.)

We've been on a hike, of sorts, lately. We've been blazing a path through the forest of food allergies/insensitivities/intolerances. Others have made their own inroads through these woods, but we have discovered that no two children follow the same allergic trail (nor do they leave the same signs for subsequent hikers). We have had a ton of help from other moms online,but the mysterious nature of this hike has left us baffled. I have been using all my free time to track down the culinary offenders. Our own two boys, Blake and Will, do not even use the same color paint for their trails, so it has been difficult to follow their lead when figuring out what foods to avoid.

However long this journey may be (and it's far from over), there is good news! We have made it to a meadow on the top of a ridge. We can see beautiful mountains from here, the sun is shining, and we are ready to set up camp! We have found this resting place by eliminating dairy products and gluten. Ok, so we have eliminated a ton of other things, too, but some of these we will be able to add back in when we are ready to pick up camp and keep hiking. The time for adding foods back into our diet will come after we are all healthy. We hope that will be soon.

We've appreciated all of your support. Stay tuned for updates!