Josh Renaud

We're not outnumbered ... yet

Well, I suppose it's about time we proclaimed the big news: Yoli is several months pregnant! The baby is due around my dad's birthday in August, though Yoli is hoping he/she will be born in late July (so we won't add yet another birthday to that crammed month).

Jadzia has certainly kept us on our toes, and kept our house a constant mess. I'm not sure what we'll do when there's the same number of children as there are adults. I'm also not looking forward to dealing with two car seats. Somehow we will survive, though. It will be awesome for Jadzia to have a sibling to play with (though we'll probably have to deal with the inevitable jealousy issues when the baby arrives).

Also, a little tidbit: Jadzia just got some shoes this week (she's gone around barefoot or socked only all this time). But she doesn't walk or stand very well in them. It's going to take some time for her to get used to them. Another thing she's learning to do is eat with a spoon. She's getting better each day.

Snow = sled time

We've had several snows this winter, but today was the first time we were able to take Jadzia out for some sledding action. We put some hot tea in a thermos, dressed Jadzia in triple layers, and headed out.

We took her to the place my dad always took us when we were kids: Killer Hill in Florissant.

Since we didn't own a sled, we took our trash can lid. Unfortunately, it didn't work — at all.

So we decided to drive around and buy one. Of course the roads were still treacherous, but we eventually made it to a K-mart and found a nice blue sled. We drove back to Killer Hill and I tested it several times while Yoli fed a hungry Jadzia in the car. It worked very well and much fun ensued.

If you click the image below, you can watch video of us sledding:

Back from the east

Well, our mission in Washington D.C. was about 85% accomplished.

Yoli was able to get a new Bolivian ID card (with her married name), but not a new passport. The Bolivian consulate in Washington was out of them. It's difficult for me to understand how a consulate can run out of passports, but such is life. Instead, they gave Yoli a 6-month extension on her current passport, which will enable us to travel to Bolivia in April. But we'll still have to go again to a consulate (probably Chicago) to get the passport sometime after the 6 months are up.