My kids are really loud!

I'm upstairs thinking about my first real topic, but all I can think about is how loud Thomas and Matthew are. They're really loud! Poor Julia thinks this is normal. Well, in our household it is. The boys are playing with their GeoTrax train set-rather, they're fighting over their GeoTrax train set. Now they're quiet. That was quick. Most parenting columns I've read tell parents to let them work it out. Usually they can, but of course we get tears a lot. They're fighting again.

Some of my most recent pictures are from our Day Out with Thomas the Tank Engine in Chattanooga, TN. It was a quick trip, about a 2 hour drive each way. I love Tennessee. It's so pretty with the hills and the river. Knoxville, where Tim's brother Gary and his daughter Brittany live, is really pretty-the Tennessee River flows right by the university and is just beautiful.