hello

welcome to the world of my blog! I'm sure you're all very excited. me too.

So, the updates:

Adam is learning to read, and insisted on checking out all-snake books from the library this afternoon. We were at the library because I'm a pushover. We stayed at the library and played with the puzzles while Ben crawled on the rug and pushed over neatly stacked piles of books, and waited for Mike to come and rescue my keys which were stuck in the van. It's been raining hard since about 1 this afternoon, hence the library. At any rate....
Andrew and Adam swept off the driveway in the middle of said downpour for 40minutes after we got home, during which time Cole quizzed me on multiple diverse Pokemon names, Ben stuck old food in his mouth and I made taco soup. Adam very kindly told me that we should have that more often because it tasted so good. He is a sweetie.

Ben prefers to lean his head on my left shoulder, which feels akward to me, but which must be pretty comfortable for him. Yesterday, Sarah Ditto commented after RS that she didn't know my baby could talk. Well, that fallacy was corrected. Ben is definitely feeling better. He is back to bouncing when he's picked up, but can't stand to hold still if he sees something that needs holding and exploring: his favorites right now are mom's cellphone (he doesn't care to punch the numbers so much as just hold it and feel important) and the TV remotes. Those buttons he loves to push. He gets a kick out of frustrating the system.

Mike and I are thinking Montesorri for Cole starting this next school year, but there are two in the area, and I've only checked out one so far. When I went to for my tour though, Cole jumped right in with his usual enthusiasm with the classroom activities. The director told me this was very unusual for a 4yr old to do right off the bat. He was right in there doing the activities with minimal direction. The director asked me if he had ever been in childcare or preschool before, what kind of training he'd had. I told her he'd just been with me, although he got out to playdates now and then.
Anyway, made me feel kinda good. Oh, here is where I insert a little shout-out to Rebekah's KinderReady kit.
Let's see.... nothing else right now I guess. I caught up on the laundry, we did some weeding before it started raining (leafs= good mulch, but offer lousy sunshine ratio, by the way), and I found out today that me at home during the day is equivalent to a 100k+salary.
sigh. some things are priceless, but hook me up with some of that!