New Toy

Well, we happend opon a new toy we weren't planning on getting for awhile. A friend of ours called one day and said a person he was working for had a pool table they wanted to get rid of. It is a used pool table that was hardly used. So when we were in Altoona for Megan's friends birthday party, we decided to go look at it. After some debate we decided to buy it. We had talked to a guy at a pool table store about putting it together, and he didn't recommend us doing it ourselves. That may have been his opinion, but it didn't cost us $750 either. So when putting it toghter, we didn't relize that bees wax (used for the seams and the screw holes in the slate) was not a common thing to find. I did find some in a town north and west of here. Did you know not only is it hard to find but costly too? Matthew is definitly well rounded in about everything, because it didn't seem to be too difficult for him to put the table together. It turned out to be quite the stress reliever, and the kids make great spectators.

Nice day for sledding eh?

Matthew and the kids had a great time sledding down the hill in the pasture west of the house. The kids had it pretty easy. They just had to sit in the sled and Daddy would pulled them up the hill. They didn't usually make it to far if they had to walk; they would just lay down and roll back down. Matthew then got yet another workout by writting their names in the snow.

Success!

They did it! They stayed in their rooms last night. Megan said she liked her new room and that Michael still ended up on the floor. That's ok. It's a little bit of a habbit. Michael said he thought it was great to be downstairs and hopped straight into bed tonight. That's a start, but it is only the second night. Daddy is still not sure about it, but it will be just fine. We have nightligths down there and the baby moniter just in case.