All the latest...

It currently is and has been a wacky week. Here goes:

Jake is still helmeted. His scan last week showed that he has made definite progress - enough so that if he looked like this 3 months ago we never would have started the process and they would consider him a success even if we quit right now (and we had the option). But, his head could look even better if went longer, so we are. We were both looking forward to chucking that smelly piece of plastic, but instead we've set a definite final date for this: March 23, Jake's 1st birthday. Here's a pic of Jake all getting ready for his scan, with the stretchy stuff to hold his hair down:



Other stuff:

• Jake is starting to climb stairs and is getting into everything in general
• Annika lost another tooth
• My LEGO set sold on eBay for $261.50 (crrrrrazy), spiking in the last few minutes
  
• Yesterday was a snow day for everyone (even Ferris), but we still took Annika to piano lessons. The temp dropped from 47 degrees to 7 degrees over 9 hours during the night, and it came with high winds and blowing snow.
  
• Lisa is gone for a couple days to a conference, by far her longest separation from Jake
• Later today I'm babysitting our friends' two girls too, so once Annika gets home from school I'll have five kids on my own
  
• I went to Father's night with Abby last week - it was safari-themed, and lots of crazy preschool fun
• Last Sunday our family had nursery duty, parking lot duty, reading-in-church duty, and kids' choir duty over the course of two services
  
• Mark and Lizzy gave us some old furniture, so now we have a couch in the basement, and potentially a recliner, if I can fix it
• Mom came and took Abby to dance class today, while I stayed home with Jake
• I've been up to Ferris way more than normal lately because we have candidates for the math department head interviewing, and I'm on the search committee
• Annika has a birthday party to go to on Saturday, and
• Many of the Dekker's are coming to our house on Sunday for soup after church - it's "1st-Sunday-of-the-month-dinner-at-Grandma's", but at our house.

There might be more...yeah, the SuperBowl is Sunday! Last year I ventured out into the aftermath of an ice storm to watch it with friends. I'm hoping for better conditions this year.

OK!