Third

John is our third child. I don't know if this is what makes him so even tempered or if it is just his nature. He has two older sisters who love him dearly and at times loathe his very existence. What can they expect he is a little brother after all. He has decided that he is a morning person and is always the first one up. Dawn is the morning person in our marriage and I am the night owl - in case you can't tell by the timestamp on the this blog. Rebecca is also a morning girl, but Susan is with her old man and will sleep in until a decent hour if it is quiet enough. This morning John was the first one up as usual and started to play his xylophone. I was just registering the first few pings when I hear Rebecca's plaintive cry -

"NOT AGAIN!"

You see this was how the household was greeted yesterday morning as well at the fun time of 5:30 in the morning. Dawn was kind enough to save us all from this unwanted concert. At various points in the day I would replay this in my mind and smile.


I went running tonight for the first time this year. 3 Miles.