Well I'm streaming Olympic coverage so my connection is very slow. I hope not to lose my work here. I already lose enough during the day, when I have all the great things in my head that I should blog, and then forget them! Agh.

We are getting FIOS (fiber optic) internet in a week - that is exciting, should be much faster.

Because I am curious about Olympic fencing, I have the live coverage on - and am a little surprised at the amount of dead time they have between matches. It's been about 10 minutes.

So...we are still living in a world of pee-pee and poo-poo since Simon is potty training and Anna's mother insists on using cloth diapers. We both feel that we spend all of our "free" time cleaning up one or the other item, when not actually sleeping, eating, cooking, or cleaning other stuff ourselves. Example today: Simon woke up having wet the bed (wearing essentially semi-absorbent underwear); later he poo'd in his pants, twice, then once on the carpet. Anna poo'd on the carpet next in my office. Other people at work don't have to deal with this kind of stuff! - but then I guess they have co-workers for that.

So finally a fencing match (or two?) is beginning. Now I see that I don't understand the sport at all. The nbcolympics.com site has lots of info on every sport- it's very nice!

So amongst daily stuff, I am finishing our fence and helping our neighbor to rebuild their front steps. I have a little more work to do and the longest side of the fence will be finished. Veronika took care of the shopping today. Maybe tomorrow we will have some fun.

I have forgotten most of the great stuff the kids did today. However! - Anna took her first independent step a couple days ago, and today she has progressed to 3 or 4 steps! I got video of this and will post it on YouTube. First I have to figure out why the camera won't talk to the computer - we had it repaired but now it's not downloading. Hehehe

Simon has been trying to converse with people, including adults. It is very cute in that he usually runs out of topics but not chatter after the first sentence. So follow-on sentences just become gibberish. I like to toss him a line after he struggles a little bit, just get him going again. He'll faithfully parrot what I give him, and sometimes enhance it.

He said a lot of really funny stuff today, I just can't remember it...sorry. I need another pocket notebook.