A Good Monday

I think I mentioned in my last post that I was starting "school" with Kate. Each week we have a theme and we do different activities and workbooks covering language arts, math, science, social studies, cooking and art. We are doing pretty basic things, I'm not too crazy! This week our theme is Apples. Today I put apple cutouts all over the house, and she had to go find them all and put them in a basket. I figured she would like this, but I had no idea how much. I ended up having to do this many, many times. We also made a book about apples, after she listed her favorite things about apples. I was not really sure when I chose what we are doing if she would be able to, but she is always surprising me with how much she understands. It's been really fun so far being her teacher!



Everett is coming more "alive" everyday! He smiles all the time and is such an easy going little guy. I love the little noises he makes, and he is always moving. That's kind of scary actually! He goes for his 2 month check up later this week, and I'm excited to see how much he has grown. I'm pretty sure he'll be in the 90th percentile or higher. Kate always is and he seems bigger to me.



Tonight we had dinner with our volleyball team. It's something the team does every week. Thirteen girls between the ages of 14 and 18...it made me happy that I don't have a teenager. No matter how hard it is to have a toddler, I was thinking tonight how much harder (in a very different way) it will be to have teenagers.



Well, it took me a few days to write something again, but at least I did :)

Try Again

It has been almost a year since the last time I posted anything, so I am going to try this whole blogging thing yet again. I'll basically just be writing about what our family is doing, and anything else that I find interesting.



Life has changed for us since last September, mostly because now we have a little boy! He's almost 2 months old now, and he's soooooo cute!!! He is a really good baby, and I know I am very lucky for that. He already sleeps well, but he is starting to be much more demanding. Kate is almost 3 now, and she is everything you expect a 2 year old to be. She is very sweet and smart, but she is also so exhausting and obnoxious sometimes. I will be happy when this stage is over.



I started doing preschool with her this week. She really likes it, but she has a hard time focusing after awhile. I started spacing it out more throughout the day so that there was a break between each thing that we are doing, and that seems to be working better.



I am going to attempt to write everyday about the kids, what new things they are doing and how they are changing. Hopefully I will be diligent about it, because I know when they are older I will be really happy that I did this.