So little bit seemed to be a bit behind developmentally with his language skills. His vocabulary consisted of "banana" "baba" "mama" and "da". But I began to notice a lot of his little baby sounds sounded a lot like Indonesian words: "apa" "bapak" "mau", so I began speaking to him this weekend primarily in Indonesian. OMG! His language has taken off! Now he tells me when he wants something, what he wants, calls to us, names things in books. . . unbelievable. Granted, his language is kind of a mix of Indonesian, Spanish and English, and often his words are jumbles of the three, but he is communicating where he couldn't really less than a week ago. I am thoroughly amazed.  

 Sissy's gone to New York today and won't get back til Saturday, and Daddy's going fishing Friday, so little bit and I will have the place to ourselves for an evening! Hoping to be able to cancel the housekeeper on Sat morning so we can goof around and maybe go to the zoo. Woo hoo! We can eat waffles in bed and do whatever we want! 

Looking forward to a trip to SD to see a girlfriend who is due soon. So glad we have paid it up already, since they just raised our daycare tuition by $135 a month! Yeeowch! So we are also looking for alternative care. Hubby's CD sales are picking up, thanks to a couple of people in Japan and Canada who really seem to love the music and a few who have bought multiple copies. He put so much work into it, I really hope he can sell enough copies to feel it was at least worthwhile. (Even better if he could sell enough to make up the daycare difference -ha!) Of course it was all really a labour of love.

Have started a diet, but was too scared to step on the scale before I knew I had lost a little weight. Since then it has been another two pounds - little by little, eh? I am looking at this as a long term change in eating habits, because I think it is going to take a long time to get where I want to be and stay there. I'm sure many of you can relate *sigh*. Even those that look fine to others tend to look heavy to themselves. 

First of all, hubby released his latest album - check it out, it's really really good! 

Link here: www.leonplaysmusic.com

At work yesterday, the president of the company projected the inauguration on the wall so everyone could see the new president of the country. I am very hopeful about the new pres. even though I know he has his work cut out for him. Of course all the pundits were off to a running start and I just had to stay up late and watch Jon Stewart. Let's keep our fingers crossed for good things to come.

Work is picking up, too. We had a round of layoffs and thought we were about to have another, but projects started rolling in in the nick of time. Odwalla is thankfully keeping me really busy. Yay! 

Planning a trip to San Diego in April to see a friend's baby wh ois due in Feb/Mar. It's been sounding kind of like she (her husband) doesn't really want us to stop by, so we are turning the trip into kind of a birthday thing for one of our daughters. Looking forward to visiting the zoo and Disneyland, and anything else we can cram in. This will be the baby's second trip out, and I am a teensy bit nervous, but very excited at the same time. He and I will be doing all the lame stuff while Dad will probably be spending most of his time at Space Mountain with his daughter. I'm actually really looking forward to having that time alone in the park with the kiddo.