"Joy to the World!"

My boys wrestle. They wrestle a lot. It is literally like living with a crowd of puppies and their young, active dad dog (that's RKZ). You'd think that H-P would still be a bit timid at barely 7 months. You'd be wrong. H-P is all over his older (and larger) brothers. The baby has started to roll and scootch and basically use all of his energy to get to the nearest hunk of flesh and grab or bite it. That nearest hunk of flesh is normally 3 year old Thunder, who responds accordingly. This is only more crazy when Buck is home and jumps in. I caught myself saying, "Don't shove your brother's head into the floor unless he actually bites you" last night (not the baby that time. Only Buck and Thunder). Nominal mommy. 

We are grinding into Christmas this year. Buck has school up until the 21st (seems to be the only school in California with that schedule). His school puts on a 1pm and 7pm Christmas show on the 20th and all of the students are required at BOTH (not the most convenient for us). Thunder is still in the thick of potty training. H-P has some kind of problem digesting vegetables and rice cereal and so he's up all night if we change from anything but prunes, oatmeal and apples or pears. Freekin' Irish/Bohemian systems!! Gladly, RKZ is home from Houston...and did I mention that it's VERY warm here? Our first warm Advent in 6 years (Buck wore shorts to school today! On Dec. 16!!)