Update on the homefront

Ana has a cold. Natasha is enjoying school. Adam is attending a planning meeting of the academic council for next year's classes this afternoon. Elias is his usual happy, inquisitive self. I would like some more sleep, but what's new?

Ana hasn't been sleeping well for a week now. Waking during the night after sleeping through for months. She's been working on learning to sit up by herself--actually getting into a sitting position from a crawling one. We've read before that babies sometimes sleep poorly before acquiring a new skill because they are practicing in bed instead of sleeping. Well, it's either that or teething or this cold. She's pretty clingy, fussy and sad. I know it might be par for the course for other babies, but it's rough on me because she's usually so happy.

Elias and Natasha are busy pretending to be Jack and Annie from the Magic Tree House books--though it's a convoluted mix of Jack and Annie, VeggieTales, and pirates.