Fat Tuesday

Greetings from our sleepy Midwestern town, home to the second largest Mardi Gras celebration in the country. Laissez le bonne temps roulez! Aunt Emmy visited us this weekend and had a chance to go to the parade and party in Soulard. We attended a neighbor's Mardi Gras party and had one too many Hurricanes....demon rum hits again. (Note that in our current lifestyle, two was considered too many....)

Apologies for the lack of blog updates, I had no idea friends were actually reading this! Thank you for checking in with us. I have been working on a part time work proposal and also a consulting firm concept, which has taken up most of my meager free time. I am hoping to have some sort of resolution soon, I have about another month before I am scheduled to head back to the office in some capacity. However, I did get a some what positive response initially from the head of our department, so I am hopeful that we'll work something else out. Now I just have to find another fabulous nanny to help us out.

J is at trial this week, retrying a case that ended in a mistrial over two years ago. He picked the jury yesterday and is probably giving his opening statement as I write this. It is a murder trial, high pressure, etc., but I do think that he enjoys putting on his case and will see this week as exciting once it's over! He's one of the best I've ever seen, I hope to see his closing statement later this week.

The twins had their 2 month doctor's visit this weekend. Caroline is 10 lbs., 11 oz., Brooke is 10 lbs., 12 oz., they are nearly the same size exactly! They are in the 50th percentile for full term infants, which puts them above 50th percentile for preemies, so their progress is fantastic. They are doing really well, though still sleeping in their baby papasans. Oh, well.

Jackson is doing really well and starting to enjoy being a big brother. We have been taking him to a "Monkey Joes," which is basically a warehouse filled with bouncers and inflatable slides. For the $5 admission price, a better time cannot be had! I am working on scheduling swimming lessons and other activities for the summer.

In the pictures, the twins sleep together, Aunt Emmy comforts two crankies, the twins post-bath and Jack reads me a bedtime story.