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It has been a wild ride around here this week. We kicked it off with a family-round of the stomach virus - first Noah on Saturday, me on Monday, and Jessica on Tuesday. By Wednesday we were all three too tired to move. School was crazy for all of us. Then it got freaking cold. Lucky for us, it got cold enough to give us a snow day on Friday, which was welcomed around here. We seem to be catching our breath a bit now. Jessica still feels good, and luckily got the least severe of the stomach bug. We are talking a lot about baby names these days - but have not settled on anything.
Noah has been doing well lately. He seems excited about the baby boy, but confused about what to expect. Things are certainly going to change for him, and I am worried about him a bit. I hope we can make it a (somewhat) peaceful transition. I feel like he is really coming into his own personality even more lately, and I am watching it happen. It is bittersweet to see him grow up. I love him so much though, and am just so proud of what he is. Anyways, he remains somewhat uninterested in potty training. But he is VERY interested in his new bunk beds (which were my bunk beds as a boy) that his Maw Maw and Paw Paw are bringing up soon. He is also interested in Thanksgiving - but most interested in riding the train and seeing the dinosaurs at Discovery Place (in Charlotte, where we will be spending Thanksgiving). He is also way into Star Wars still, and since we acquired another lightsaber - there have been some serious lightsaber battles going on upstairs (with both Mommy, daddy, and imaginary droids). But don't worry too much about Noah becoming "too boy," he is equally into wearing dresses and wings when we go to the little girl's house next door. :) He is wide open, and we can all learn from him.

Ben's Playlist: You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Dead..., Indigo Girls, Guster, Ryan Adams, Paul Simon, Kool and the Gang, Snow Patrol, Phish.

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