Personality!

John wants to do things FOR HIMSELF. Fairly typical for a two-year-old, I think.

He does NOT like diaper changes. Frustrated, one night, Dan gave John the diaper and said, "Go change your own diaper!" So John did, sort of. He took the diaper and carefully laid it out on his changing table. He found Dan and asked him to put him on the table and then he nicely sat down so that his diaper change could be completed. Amazingly, it has worked about 95% of the time since then. Crazy.

Anna is scooting like crazy as well as lifting up onto her knees. Maybe she'll be an early crawler.

Postdoc!

After a number of discouraging weeks of no or disappointing information, Dan was offered a postdoc at his first choice institution.

If all goes as planned, we'll be moving to the Boston area in late August or early September. (And we have a generous moving allowance so I don't have to do all the boxing!)

Time to go buy some warm clothes at those after-winter sales...