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Just a quick update on the Ouren's-

Caleb- Is doing great. He still loves school and is even getting a little excited about Kindergarten next year. He's singing all the new songs from preschool all the time. He is like a sponge still when it comes to dinosaurs. He can identify several types by name and tell you several facts about how big they are and what they ate and certain features about them. He's still working a little on reading words and has been picking up on bigger words and saying them like he knows what they mean. Last night was "atrocious". He picked it up from Supercalefragilisticexpealidocious and singing it at school. He makes us laugh every day and is very caring towards his brothers (except the other 1/2 of the time when he's bugging them, of course). He can't wait for Tball to start and is excited that his coach from last year was at the sign ups and requested that Caleb be on his team again. His imagination runs wild and I love to just watch him play most days.

Zaric- Zaric is good. He's crawling all over the place and has now started pulling himself up on things all the way to his feet. He thinks he's a pretty big boy. He's eating all sorts of things and has continually hunted down the dog dishes and spilled them over. When we move them out of the way, the dog cries (almost literally) she'll sit and stare at them and wine for hours so it's a battle to please them both. We go back to the Dr. for another ear check the first week of March. If his ears still haven't cleared up as much as he likes, we will be seeing an ear, nose, and throat specialist and talking about having tubes put in. I am not sure how I feel about that. He has 3 visible teeth and we can see 3 more peeking their way through. We think this is the reason he's not been sleeping as well the last few days. Otherwise he's still super smiley and now says 3 words, Mom, Da Da, and Hey.

Zaden- Zaden still isn't crawling, but still getting around fairly well scooting on his back or on his butt. He has also learned to pull himself up on things a little. At least to his knees and he thinks he's pretty cool when he does it. His newest thing is to put toys in his mouth and shake them around. We call him our little puppy. It makes us laugh (see photo below). He only says Da Da, so far, and is a complete Daddy's boy. The minute Dad walks in at night he throws a huge fit until Dad picks him up. Yesterday he was waving Hi to Mom all day. With any luck, he only has 2 weeks more to go with his helmet so we will hopefully be done with that early March. He is also eating all sorts of things and loves to cuddle when he's tired. He has 4 visible teeth and at least 1 (if not 2) that we can see coming in.

Mom and Dad are tired! Mike is busy at work but still finds the time and energy somehow to help so much with the boys when he gets home and help out with housework and whatever needs to be done. I am busy with normal day to day stuff most days and got to have lunch yesterday with my former bosses. It was quick, but nice to catch up a little. I love being home with the boys all day, even if we do nothing. I can't wait for it to get a little warmer so we can go out more. I haven't done much crafting lately, I want to but am having trouble finding the motivation. Good thing I have another scrapbooking night with the girls planned next weekend. I am collecting on my Superbowl bet this Friday and Mike and I are going out. Our friends Juli and Cliff were nice enough to take on the boys for a while, so it's going to be nice to so something alone. I'll let you know what we did this weekend. Nothing much new at the Ouren household.

Here's just a couple pics of the boys pulling themselves up on their knees in the bath tub last night. And one even showcasing our puppy dog with the starfish in his mouth.