Kitty Tree

It seems I just get slower and slower at updating this! I must confess to spending time on facebook when I get a chance instead of on the blog. The boys are super excited about Christmas coming up - making lists, spending oodles of time on the laptop drooling over lego sets and screaming, "I want to get that!" at practically every commercial on TV... It can't come soon enough - for all of us! ;)

It's been nice to be done at the duplex - we've been back to "normal" evenings and weekends. Wellyn and Brendan have had some serious games of Steal the Pack and Aiden likes to help too.

We've made it church two weeks in a row...a new record for us lately! Here are me and the kids before heading out yesterday. Brendan did pretty good this week, Aiden had to leave for a little bit...




And, now that we've had some extra evening and weekend time, we're back to working on things around here. This weekend we finished up the cat tree we started building a while ago. It's a little bigger than I imagined it, but it turned out really great and the cats love it. Here's Brendan cleaning up the carpet:


Aiden supervising:


Diego checking it out:


And, the kids taking turns pretending to be "cats"... the only time we told them they would be allowed to climb on or in it:



The cats, relieved the boys went to bed so they could get a turn!


Wellyn surprised us this morning by going to swimming lessons so he could see Brendan in action. He is doing awesome - the coach has been having them do some things that are usually taught at the next level. Here he is waiting his turn to swim on his back:


And his new favorite part, standing on the edge in the deep end, while the coach says, "chop, chop, timber!" and they jump in feet first and turn and swim back to the edge.