Again, the problem with blogging

To those of you that follow our blog, I apologize for the lack of entries over the last three months.  As I stated before, the problem with blogging is that you have to find time to do it, and time has been scarce in our household since Anneliese (baby Anna as we call her) was born.  Here's what's happened since the last entry:

1. Anna started to smile for more than gas 5 weeks after birth.
2. At six weeks, the bigger kids, Leigh and then Anna all got a very bad upper respiratory infection from RSV (for the medical folks that read this) and everyone was sick for about a month.  The kids and Leigh needed antibiotics and Anna got a nebulizer.  Luckily, Mommy never got it.
3. Leigh, Betti and Endrias went to Wisconsin for Christmas.  Mommy and Anna stayed home because Anna was so sick and so small.  The highlights of the Wisconsin trip, according to the kids, was seeing their cousins Lauren, Claire and Tyler, the snow, the christmas lights provided by the LaCrosse Rotary, Betti getting her toenail ripped off on Grandma and Grandpa Lommen's treadmill and seeing a "big truck" that was "ouchie" from the "slippely" roads on the way to the airport.

4. Endrias and Betti started a full day of school until 3 pm.  Endrias is being tutored so that he can advance from kindergarten to first grade a semester early.

5. Anna started to hold her head up at six weeks and started to laugh at 8 weeks.  For the past two nights (almost at 12 weeks) she's slept six hours in a row.  Mommy and Daddy are starting to think we might actually get to sleep sometime in the future.
6. Endrias and Betti had a joint birthday party since Endrias didn't get to celebrate his birthday before school started.  There were 17 kids, 15 adults, two cakes and lots of pizza.  As my mother would say, "a good time was had by all."

7. Leigh bought the kids wetsuits and they've taken to surfing in the Florida winter.
8. Dawn's sister Diane and nieces Grace and Rose came for Christmas and met our new and large family.  The kids loved meeting their cousins and keep asking when they are coming again.

8. Betti has grown 3 inches, 3 shoes sizes and 10 pounds since home in June; Endrias has also grown 3 inches, 3 shoe sizes and 13 pounds in same time period. 
9. Anna has grown 4 inches and almost doubled her birthweight (she's 13 pounds now).
10. Mommy and Daddy have aged a decade each.