We are really really hoping that this will be our last detour to flickr and we can get back to blogging and telling you about all our fun (and sometimes not-so-fun adventures).

Let's see if we can give you quick recap before you take that detour...

I'm learning lots at my daycare/preschool. I'm learning how to write my name and so far have the "T" and "O" mastered. I can usually identify 4/6 of the letters in my name. Mommy says this is really great because she works with 4 and 5-year-olds that can't do that. I'm counting really well and learning my shapes. I'm still going to dance class every Wednesday night and learning my dances really well for my recital coming up in May. I like to help out with my little brother Leighton. I make him laugh better than anyone else when I dance, play peek-a-boo with him, and when I pretend to beat him up in the car.

Leighton is (still) getting huge. He now weighs 24 pounds, 8 ounces. He can crawl and sit up by himself. He has five teeth and loves to use them to eat when he's feeling healthy. Unfortunately, right now he's not feeling healthy at all. He's had a nasty cough and cold for 9 days now and had pinkeye (which was diagnosed during a midweek trip to Urgent Care) in the middle of that. Thankfully there was medicine to take care of the pinkeye, but nothing for the cough and cold since he's just a baby. (I also have the cough and cold but I seem to be coping better than Little Man.)

The best new news is that Leighton now sleeps through the night. Mommy put him through Baby Sleep Boot Camp while Daddy was out of town for week. That means that Mommy kicked him out of my bedroom and he slept in the portable crib in the guestroom for seven nights. When he would wake up, Mommy would try to get him to go back to sleep without eating. Every night he slept a little bit longer without waking until *poof* suddenly he was sleeping from 6:45 PM to 6:45 AM. Woohoo!! Mom and Dad are loving it. We're a bit limited in what we can do in the evenings if we want to keep our boy on his schedule, but it's worth it since it means Mom and Dad can sleep all night long. (Of course, since we're both sick right now, all bets are off, but that's ok. That's life and when we're healthy again, everyone will go back to having great sleep habits, right? Right?!?)

Well, off to flickr to add those promised pictures.

Toodles!

Taylor and Leighton