An update

Life is good at the Barber house these days. I can hardly believe it's the end of January already! We've been busy with work, studying, playing, and school.

The boys are doing great and are staying healthy so far this winter (except for a random tummy bug one night last weekend for Morgan), so we're really thankful for that. Morgan's classroom is in the midst of a farm theme right now, which Morgan seems to really enjoy because there's much ado about tractors and animals. His classroom also adopted a new mascot whose name is Captain Kangaroo (a very big title for a little tiny hamster). Captain Kangaroo stays in his cage, but Morgan is fascinated by him and tells everyone "No fingers!" He's also become classroom reporter and stands at the window and narrates everything he sees.

Jacoby is doing so well in his class. We've been really proud of him, and are thankful for a couple of little girls that he's befriended that seem to help with some of the behavioral things we've been wrestling with. His love of dinosaurs continues, and he announces his presence in the class when we arrive with a big R-O-A-R! Fortunately, his teachers think this is pretty cool. He keeps Morgan entertained for long stretches of time. They're always on some sort of adventure or last night I found them having a dance party in our bedroom thanks to Morgan figuring out how to turn on the alarm clock radio. We play dinosaurs whenever we're outside (heaven only knows what the neighbors think), so sometimes we're plant-eaters eating the trees with our long necks and sometimes we're meat-eaters chasing small dinos (we've had to redirect Jacoby from always choosing Morgan for prey). (:

Justin is studying for his next exam and is hoping to get a much-needed appointment scheduled with his advisor this week. Work is semi-busy for me until February 1 when the wheels start turning for our spring board meeting. Jacoby has an allergy test on Tuesday this week, so we'll be busy tomorrow evening preparing 23 food items to take with us. It will be interesting to see what the results show and what changes will need to be made.

We hope you all have a wonderful week!

This is a dinosaur nest, and the boys are very busy checking it out and seeing what dinosaurs have hatched.

Sweet little boy

I'm not exactly sure what they were doing over at the fence...

But when I asked, they turned and ran, giggling the entire way!

I'm guessing they're being chased by dinosaurs...but that's just a guess.