The last month has been a pretty wild one. The kids are finally mobile. Lily has been cruising along furniture and the walls for a little while. (We found out that she could walk along the base of the wall when Melissa caught her standing at the edge of the stairs, looking down them and trying to figure out how she was going to get to the bottom.) She finally decided to start walking about a week ago. She can walk pretty well, though she still seems to prefer holding on to things. She hasn't even considered crawling yet. She just wants to walk - all the time. Griff, on the other hand, can crawl a bit. He doesn't do it a ton, but he can. There is a little fan that we keep in their room that he is quite taken with. He is always happy to crawl to it. Other times he just rolls around the room to get where he wants. He is a little magician. If you leave him alone for a second he can just disappear. The other day Melissa put him in the baby swing and locked down the little tray so that she could go take a shower. When she came back downstairs, the swing was still swinging, but the tray had been busted off and there was no Griffin to be found. He was across the room, chewing on the digital camera battery charger that had been plugged into the wall, none the worse for wear. Melissa said that he didn't even act like anything had happened. Apparently it was business as usual for Griff. Needless to say, there is a lot of home improvement happening at the Baldwin's right now.

They both really like to dance right now. Lily does a really fast head shake when she dances. Griff looks like the guys on A Night at the Roxbury. It is really funny.

Baldwin Baby Tooth Count: (as of 3/5/08)

Griffin: Seven (16) teeth

Lily: Four (12) teeth

That's about it for the kids. They are still fun and they are still keeping us busy. Only 8 more months until they get to go to nursery during church and only 4 more years until the start Kindergarten - just in cast you were wondering.

Things are going well for Melissa and I, too. Work and kids take up most of our time. I'm going to be back at Westminster this fall. I hope to be finished with the MBA program by the end of calendar year 2008. I'm traveling a little bit for work, but nothing too serious. We've both been graduated from high school for 10 years now, so we're getting pretty old.

In case any of you are interested in finding new music to listen to, I've decided to add a section to the blog today containing a short list of the music that I'm currently listening to.

Gogol Bordello - These guys are an eastern European, gypsy punk band. It's just about impossible to describe, so here is a link to the only song of theirs that has received any airplay. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/listen/0,,3856244,00.html

The Postal Service - This sounds just like Death Cab for Cutie. Of course, it's the same singer so that shouldn't be too surprising. I've posted a link to a video of theirs. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5491745145345477142&q=the+postal+service+music&total=545&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

Try either of those out. They are pretty good.

That's it for now. Thanks for visiting.