We spotted this lovely rainbow from our front door yesterday (and this picture doesn't really do it justice).
It was also Jack's first reconciliation day, and so the rainbow in the sky seemed especially fitting.
Jack did great, was the picture of composure, and is eager to go back again soon! 

Brotherly love and pom-poms

New Year's Resolutions

I'm especially excited about Advent this year -- a new Church year, a new mass translation, and all the new adventures we have to look forward to in MD.  At the same time, I miss our family and friends and I am trying to think of ways for us to stay connected on a day-to-day basis. 

So, I've decided to make a new year's resolution that I hope will bridge the gap a bit.  I plan to post a new picture each day in Advent.  I can't guarantee that I'll be able to post much more than a caption for each picture, but I hope the pictures themselves will tell the story of our daily adventures.

With that, here is the first one:

"All I Want for Christmas" -- Jack just lost one of his top teeth and the other one isn't far behind.  You can already see the permanent tooth coming in.  Jack was very pretty brave when David extraced the loose tooth with a floss lasso (the tooth had started to turn a creepy shade of blue-gray, so we all agreed it had to go!). 

Speed of life

We all continue to do well here at the Campbell household.  We've been healthy, the number of cardboard boxes in the house is slowly decreasing, and life is moving forward.  We've registered at what seems to be a lovely parish here, and we are starting to meet people and put down roots.  It is such a relief to know that we can get involved and become invested in this community beyond just 6 months!

There is definitely less free time now than there used to be (at least for me), but I can say that although I am busier and more tired than I would like, I am very happy.  It seems like I literally have to move very quickly during the day to get things done in a timely manner, i.e. dashing between the fridge and pantry for speed cooking, hussle cleaning, running up and down the stairs for items, etc. but it works and by the grace of God I have the energy for it.

Davy is charming us all with his big smiles and adorable coos.  His smiles are hard to capture on camera, but one of these days I'll get a good shot and post it.  The boys love making him smile!  I am so grateful for the gift of siblings (well, except for when they try and kill each other, but you get the idea).

The older boys entertain me with their boyness.  A continuing mealtime debate here is who is the better superhero -- Spiderman or Superman?  And what would happen if Superman and Darth Vader fought each other?  The boys don't help cook, they excavate the flour and sugar with the measuring cups.  They don't draw pictures of people and houses and flowers -- they draw tank fights and fighter jet battles.  They don't play house -- they invent a land called Janada (Japan + Canada) that grows kryptonite and makes it into sandwiches in case Superman comes around (they are decidedly anti-Superman in Janada).  It's all a little foreign to me, but I am greatly amused by the way their minds work!

Anyway, my time on the computer is up, but I hope to post more pictures of all the boys soon!

More photos

I owe this blog a meaty update post, but it will have to wait until my brain cells have recovered from the move and the sleep deprivation a little bit :).  In the mean time, here are some recent photos of the kids.  Jack was Black Spiderman for Halloween, Thomas was a Scary Skeleton, and Peter was a Phoebe Giraffe.  They had lots of fun wearing their costumes (Peter is actually wearing his right now!) and getting lots of candy.  We're all doing well, but are still unpacking and trying to get a routine back in the midst of it all.  Thankfully, we're all healthy and are enjoying our new home and neighborhood.