Hallulejah! I am back on. This site wasn't letting me, the cabbage of YAKIMA btw, on to my own self-created site before I switched to a different email account, which I didn't really end up doing in the end anyway, but I jumped through the corporate hoops and here I am!

It's really a pain to have so many awesome things to share about my days and not be able to remember any of them by the time I sit down. Oh well. I do have one story....

So, 5yr old started kindergarten. Loves it, adores it, is doing really well. Well, rewind a couple weeks ago, and you have me attempting to get him all ready (clothes organized, school supplies labeled, lunch supplies stocked, etc), and I notice that he's having a bit of... itching? yes, itching, in his never-do-mentions. And I start to WORRY in all caps, cause now, all I can picture is my precious kid itching up a storm in the middle of a public classroom, being labeled 'that kid who... itches things' and further more spreading disease and destruction through his lack of thorough hygiene. But, being the calm mommy I am, I try talking him out of it. He's not having it. So, next best thing, I try to leave it alone, try to remind him to wash hands and keep his hands out of his pants (by the way, has anyone else had the opportunity to say that in public, in the middle of the afternoon, cereal aisle where absolutely everyone and their dog are grabbing the 1.25 a box deals? not that pleasant, believe me). Anyway, I think I had to go to work that night or a parent meeting or finish errands or something, and I come back and this is what Mike tells me:

5yr old comes up to Mike, slightly worried expression on his face
"Cole, buddy, what's wrong?"
"Dad... I just found something in the wrong place."
"What? Where?"
"Dad.. there's a hole... in my BUTT!.... and it goes REALLY far!"
Oh my... but yes, audience, blood naked truth, this is what 5yr old has discovered, all on his own. So, Mike explains in impressive composure that the 'hole' is completely normal. In fact, that's where the poop comes from. My adorable boy? He responds with a relieved sigh and not a small amount of amazement: "Oh! I did not KNOW that!"
Since? No problems on the 'itchy' front.
With this kind of problem solving? Kindergarten will be a breeze.

Also in the news: Andrew got run over by not one, not two, but THREE concurrent infections: sinus, ear, and... yes, we have our first UTI. But, at least he's not having to pee every 20 minutes because of a excess amount of glucose. That was my first fear, because, really, a UTI? That's just too EASY. Anyway, kid's on abx, and feeling maybe a 1000x better. As in, he's not falling asleep mid-sentence or staring dead eyed at the wall for the better part of the day.
Poor kid.

Other than that, my other boys are healthy and enthusiastic as always. Saw a co-worker at Costco and had an impulsive hugging moment. Hardly do ever those two worlds cross, I had to memorialize it somehow. Betty seemed receptive, so there's that.

Had my first day with just 2yr old, who, we've recently found out has excellent receptive language, but not a whole lot of expressive. The bugger. Anyway, we're 'narrating' for him, and hopefully, that will extenuate his motivation to actually imitate.

Time will tell, as always.