Snow!

We had a big snow last week!
Henry & Lydia have been showing some creativity in the art department. Lydia has been drawing some pretty amazing things for a little 4-year-old, and they're both into building castles with blocks, cars & castles with Legos®, and some big general messes around the house!
And beginning about 10 days ago, Henry has been successfully saying his "r" sound. HenRy. TReat. GRetel. Red. CuRious GeoRge. He's made good progress on this front!

Henry Turns Four!

Another four year old in the Gates Home!!!

Flashback:

The kids enjoyed receiving presents, and each of them, especially Henry, seemed to be genuinely excited in ways that we hadn't seen at previous Birthdays and Christmases.

Henry got such a cool present that Lincoln needed to add it to his Christmas list right now!

Back at the end of October I went to Chicago for the 2014 AVMA Economic Summit. It was way more technical than any of you would be interested in learning here, but I did take one cool photo during the approach to O'Hare:

#Chicago before sunrise. On my way to the #AVMAEcon Summit.

A photo posted by @rggates on Oct 10, 2014 at 4:48am PDT

Just off the coast, you can see Soldier Field on the left, and just across the road from that is where we stayed with Pete & Moe before they bolted for South Carolina.

Trick-or-Treating was fun this year, too: