Jacob started back to school on August 12 (wow- so early!). He's a big second-grader now. He's been doing great- he gets ready for school in the morning with just a little prodding, and he's been happy every day when he gets home. We think it's going to be a good year.

Here's a picture of the prized train set that we gave Jacob for his birthday. He's already perusing the catalogues and picking out the steam engines and accessories that we wants to add to the set.

And, a few cute pictures of Hannah. Here she is in her favorite reading chair:

And looking cute in the front yard on a beautiful day!