Spring is in the air.....

Ah, the sounds of spring...! The snow is FINALLY melting, and although the weather is still unpredictable, there are at least glimpses of spring and warm weather. The Kallage clan is managing to make it through, with all the flu's going around and all. Oh my goodness. If you get the swollen throat, fevers, sores inside your mouth flu, you need to get on an antibiotic. I don't usually recommend these, since we don't really take much medicine. But, this thing won't go away without them.

Moving on....

Althea turns four!!! Wow! We're having a birthday barbeque on Sunday for her with some friends. She's so excited. I can't believe we have a four year old!! She is doing just great. She got a puzzle of the United States from her Auntie Jeanne for her birthday and she's already memorizing the states!!! I'm telling you, she's gonna have Rich's 6th grade 150 countries quiz down by the time she's in second grade!! Just crazy.

William is getting so BIG. He has his top and bottom two front teeth and is chewing on everything. Not to mention climbing on everything too! He's mastered the stairs up and down. It's alot of fun.

Rich is gearing up for another show at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint in May. The last one was so great. I imagine this one to be just as amazing. I attached an article about his band from our Sunday paper on the last posting. If you go to the article there is a link to a Youtube posting of part of the show. It's pretty cool, they wrote that song themselves! I think the show is going to be May 28th. Definately a must see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvwpss2lYSE

That's about it for right now. We're planning on planting a vegetable/fruit farm here in a few weeks! That's quite exciting for us! Funny.

Oh Spring, Oh Spring....Where are you????

I'm going to use green since I could really use some of it in many ways!!! Green grass would be nice, the paper stuff too, but who couldn't use some of that?! Well, it's almost here.

I thought I would announce that today I turn 30 years old! That sounds so crazy to me. It's not too bad, just makes me feel a bit older and that there is so much I would like to accomplish and the clock is ticking. I got tickets to the Sasquatch Festival at the Gorge for Memorial day weekend! Yeah!

The Kallage clan has almost made it through an amazing Idaho winter! Yeah! I'm telling you, for what we have experienced this winter we are probably prepared for winter in the Yukon, but don't let Rich know I said this as he would love to hear me say that! We have endured feet, many feet of snow and low, low temperatures. It's always an adventure with us, never boredome! I think a great part of the lake and even the river froze over! That's pretty impressive!

Moving on, Althea is learning to read. It is so amazing, not to mention impressive. She's got the sounds of all the alphabet down, and is putting them all together, even starting to recogize some words when she sees them. She's really getting so big. She's an excellent snowshoer, and we're working on the skiing part. She's tried her skiis a few times this winter. We haven't quite tried the ice skates yet!

William is crawling everywhere, and pulling himself up on the couch and the stool. He can hold himself up for a little bit. He's got his two bottom teeth in and working on some more, so sleep is a little lacking for me a bit of the time. He's trying to keep up the gabbing with Althea. He's got the Ma, Ma, Ma's and at night it's the Da, Da, Da's. We've even got a few "Heys" too!

Rich was featured on the front page of the Bonner Daily Bee a few weeks ago. One of his band classes was on the front page. It's really so great. The article was fantastic coverage for him and the program he put together for the charter school. Spring break will be here in a few weeks and the kids a the school are all a bit anxious to say the least. Everybody has cabin fever!

http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2008/02/18/news/news01.txt

Hope all is well with all of our friends and family. We love you!!!