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Alison decided that it was time for life to go back to normal this week, so she's been trying to get the girls outside every day, do their reading and math and scripture study daily, and keep up with the housework.  She is very proud of actually getting the house clean this week; after a month of her not doing any work, it really needed it!  Maybe next week they'll start swim lessons at the pool with Max. Thursday night we had the first meeting of a board game developers' playtesting group at our library.  We arranged for the girls to go play with the Dalyais, a family in our ward, while we were playing.  However, when we went to drop the girls off, no one was home.  We ended up just taking them along to the library, and one of us would read to them while the other played.  The other people were nice about it, but it was distracting.  We hope the next one will go better. Scott and Sheila took the girls on Friday, and we took Timothy along to a play...

We went to Wicked on Thursday. I had never seen it before (though Alison had seen it back in California). It was pretty good. I liked Fiyero the best, however there were other fun characters as well, and the acting was pretty good all around. It got me sort of nostalgic for school at the beginning. Perhaps when I retire I will become a school teacher. We grew our First Red Tomatoes of the year. Rea and Sara ate them yesterday as we were working outside in the back yard. Hopefully Alison will get one some day. Timothy is now three weeks old. He is huge, and he is easily walking around now. That was a joke. He is, however sleeping very will for a new born. We got 6 hours of sleep two nights in a row. Alison and the girls went to the park on Wednesday for the first time since Timothy was born. It is good to get outside again. Rea and Sara played with other little girls, and Alison took care of Timothy. Timothy has been working on choosing a nick name. The current contenders are:...

This post is days late. I am going to blame it on our week of little sleep. Timothy put on 1 lb at his two week appointment. I have been working on Dancing Robots cards. They are coming along nicely. Perhaps in a week more I will be ready to order an actual printing of them. Bob - our development lead - has accepted a job at a different place. Additionally Chris - one of my coworkers - broke his leg recently and is out recovering from the surgery that they had to do to fix it. Because of this things have been hectic at work. Hopefully we can get a new team member and get Chris back some time soon so that we can get back to working normally. If anyone is looking for a software engineering job, contact me. I could give you the posting. We have tickets to see Wicked today. I have never seen it, so hopefully it is good. It sounds like it is not in any way based on the original book by Baum. This could be good, or it could be bad. Rea and Sara want me to post that they got rag d...