Since Mia is the most exciting person in our family, let's start with her. Mia is now 15 weeks old, just short of four months. She continues to grow everday, literally. While she can still wear some newborn clothes, they're getting much tighter and shorter everyday. But now, Mia is in the stage wear the newborn pants are too short and the three month pants are huge. Bummer. During the last two weeks, Mia has also found her voice in a huge way. She likes to make loud noises, and occasionally startles herself at how vocal she is. Last weekend, Mia was having so much fun talking to us, she didn't want to go to sleep. Brett was quick to point out that it's a whole lot better than hearing her cry. Other than that, she continues to enjoy nibbling on her hands, and is just starting to sit in the Bumbo seat. Unfortunately, she still has what I like to call Heavy Head Syndrome. Possibly the most exciting thing has been Mia's sleep habits as of late. She has been sleeping for about seven hours at a time at night. Last night, for example, she slept from 10pm-5:30am. Alleluia!

Brett is also doing well. Ultimate frisbee season is over until spring, but he has started running with Puckett again and continues to go to the gym with his buddy. He also spends time "working" at the hockey games, and seems to enjoy that quite a bit. While his company is not the highlight of his job right now, I think he still finds happiness working with athletes, especially the hockey players. At home, Brett never hesitates to get up and help with Mia, always stays up to feed her at 10pm, and just loves his little girl. I'd have to say, I think she's pretty fond of him as well.

The first quarter has come to a close at school, and we finished the week with parent teacher conferences. I definitely have to say that I had one or two interesting conferences to say the least. In short, apparently it's my fault that students (one in particular) don't turn in work; therefore, failing all three of my classes. Besides the usual "stuff" at school, I have decided to take on a coaching position in the spring. I'll be coaching the varsity softball team at our local Catholic high school. Cross your fingers! On a funny note though, I had a seventh grade boy hold up part of a pretzel and say to his friends, "Look! Boobs!"