It’s been a busy summer – so busy, in fact, that the blog has been starved for attention of late. I have some cool posts in the works but it will be a little while longer before I can get them finished.

The exciting news on the home front is that my wife Angela and I are expecting a new addition to the family in December! The ultrasound suggests it is a girl, but it’s a little too early to say for sure. That would give us three little girls under two years old.

My twins, Sarah and Alissa, are now 18 months old and experiencing an early vocabulary explosion. Words that excite them of late include airplane – after their first plane trip to see their great-grandma and other family- as well as “bull-bo” (bulldozer) after our neighbors had their driveway torn out and replaced.

Some other new words they have picked up recently include truck, hike, mount (mountain), kitty, Cleo (our cat), rabbit, swing, outside, fork, cracker, umbrella, elephant, ear, tongue, and pants. I would guess their vocabulary is probably in the vicinity of 200 words and animal sounds now. Maybe a little more.

They can even tell us when they poop now, although they don’t always like to admit it!

My brother and his girlfriend are visiting this week from Boston, so the latest additions are “Uncle” and “Lori.”  Pretty soon he will have them saying “Red Sox” as well, I suspect!