Yes, this is a picture of Aidan punching Oliver in the face and Oliver is laughing all the while. I'm sure many of you are feeling like punching us in the face since we haven't blogged in a great long while. I've finally had it with the Microsoft pages, as there seems to be some sort of coding war going on and it is incredibly difficult to use with our Mac. Maybe it is just incredibly difficult to use a Mac, or to use Microsoft pages, or I'm just a difficult person in general. I'm not really sure...

Either way, welcome to our new and improved blog!






2009 had a very fun start to it, with Oliver's first birthday!

Here he is enjoying his one-year old Tiramisu, which has become the traditional 1 year old birthday cake in our household. If two first birthdays counts as tradition. Actually we ended up having three; Oliver got a preemptive birthday party so that all the Hopkins clan could celebrate with him. He then had the second part of Tiramisu on his actually birthday, January 2nd. Shortly after that, he started to walk, like this:



He is all over the place now. He's even started to dance! Check this out (Over-proud parent warning: this could be a tedious 2 minutes to those not related or interested in babies dancing to OkGo dancing on treadmills; feel free to skip it)-




Other than that, January was a bit dreary. February, however started out with snow! I'll write more later.

Cheers!