The Roller household seems to be so much busier lately. Eric is very busy with the move to their new, huge warehouse. Hope once the move is complete that his schedule settles down again. His girls miss him. Once it settles down, we will turn to the house and work on getting things ready for a garage sale. We are cleaning house. Then we are going through and fixing all the little things that bother us, but we never correct-hah!

Libby is becoming more and more vocal. Sentences are flying out of her mouth. She is now singing all the time in that cute little voice of hers. Her favorite song is "Hello Everybody" from our Music Together class. Eric laughs that I get choked up when she sings it, but she includes everyone in the house. "Hello to Mama, so glad to see you, hello to Merlie, so glad to see you, too". It's too dang cute for words. Libby has always had a great sense of humor and it continues to grow. She likes to tease and skip the number 4, 5, and 6 when counting. She then looks at you and laughs when she does it. I asked her "what happened to 4?", and now, out of the blue, she will come up and ask me that. However, her f's come would as h's. Needless to say, we are working on those f's! :) Potty training was going great again, and for some reason, she has decided to go back to diapers. There were no traumatic experiences, she just does not want to sit on the potty. I need to develop a new bribe. (Spoke too soon, she very happily went on the potty this morning)

I am doing great. OK, I still have a bit of the stupid cold that half the state has. it just does not want to go away. I am still volunteering at Longfellow. Talk about bringing tears to your eyes. Some of the kids so obviously are not read to or interacted with by their parents. There are kids who have barely progressed since the tutoring started. On the other hand, there are kids who have benefited so greatly from it and it shows. I worked with one boy yesterday who was so jittery he would not sit down. I thought for sure it was going to be a struggle. He is a great reader with very good comprehension. I try to give all the kids praise and encouragement. I have always had a soft spot for teachers, but now spending those hours in a school watching everything going on, I have even a greater respect. I have to be a name dropper here, one of our volunteers is a local actress named Linda Kelsey. She was on "Lou Grant" and does many local theater productions. Our church, St. Mary's has really come through with volunteers for this program and I am so glad my co-tutorer, Kris, developed this relationship with the school.

I have been doing the elliptical as many days as possible. I know I am very lucky to have such a nice machine in the comfort of my home. My jeans have gotten snug, and I do not have any "fat" clothes, so in order to fit into what I have, I need to start working out more. Hmm, and maybe eating less... I almost enjoy doing it, although I do not think that while I am sweating away.

I am heading up to St. Cloud on Saturday to hang out with friends from college. My friend Scotty opened a bar a year ago, and I still have not been to it. I have not seen some folks for almost two years, so I am very excited. Cross fingers Dada and Libby do okay without me!