Unbelievable Update

Okay, so maybe it's not unbelievable, but it sure is an update! This week's update is: we have cute kids! I tried to take some more of my world famous "glamour shots" with the kids, but the older Chloe gets, I've realized, the harder that is to do. She does not sit still for more than two seconds, especially when I have the camera out. She'll stand in range of picture taking for point two seconds, not long enough for me to even focus on her, and then she comes right back onto my lap to look at the picture I didn't get a chance to take of her. And she doesn't like me taking pictures of Linus either. She would much rather be in the picture herself for point two seconds and then try to come over and look at the other picture I didn't take. Nonetheless, I did manage to get a very small handful of cute photos. Hooray!

So I started doing the potty thing again with Chloe- this week we tried underwear. She can wear them just fine! She can also pee in them just fine too! The good news is, she hates it when she does pee her pants, but she hasn't quite figured out that the way to solve that is to tell Mommy to go to the potty and then do it before she wets herself. We sit on the potty for lots of time every day and she has a grand old time reading books and telling me what color all the hairties in her hairtie sorter are, and then she stands up and dramatically looks in the potty as though something would magically appear there. Someday I'll catch it right I know, but in the meantime I'm doing laundry almost every day!

Craig has finally started school again and I have finally started teaching. Eventually I'll post pictures of my classroom...but my classroom right now is not really done. It's a brand new classroom with a collapsable wall that folds out into the gym with a lip for a stage and everything, but I have to wait until they get the wood floors in and all. So I'm in a temporary room right now, which hasn't necessarily motivated me much to decorate it a ton since it'll all be coming down in a month anyway. Craig is enjoying school...I think. Maybe enjoying isn't really the right word...enduring maybe? I dunno. He's enjoying the fact that this is one more semester closer to being done! And I think he enjoys the change anyway. In the meantime we are having tons of fun with our kids and I have to say that teaching half time the first year should be mandatory for every new teacher- it's so great!! Okay, so the pay kinda stinks (and by "kinda" I mean "REALLY") but I get to be home with my kiddos every morning and that is worth anything.

And that's all for now. Join us next time...