Just some life...

How is it that time passes so quickly?!  I look at C and think, "Wow.  X was this old when C was born."  I can't imagine having another one right now.  I can't keep up as it is.

C is coming up on birthday #2...just a few weeks.  Crazy.  He's crazy but so much fun.  I love this age despite all the boundary testing, gravity defying behaviors and general mayhem that 2 brings.  I love the exploding vocabulary.  He had his first bleeding incident a few weeks ago involving the 'monkey tree'.  So, he loves to tell you about it.  He says, "Tree hurt knee!" all the time.  Very cute...reminds me of E when she was about the same age and got her finger caught in the toybox.  Whenever he replies to me, he always ends it with "Mom"..."yes, Mom" or "danks, Mom".  He does the same with the kids too.  He loves calling out for E...or "Esbet" and he's just really starting to say X's name..."Dersh" or something or other.  Mainly he calls X, "Luke", "R2", or "Han".  Its funny.  Imaginative play is really picking up, too.  "Monsters coming!" is another phrase frequently expelled.  He is too cute and too funny for my sanity sometimes.

Birthday #4 is drawing neigh for X.  He's still my sweet, cuddly munchkin.  He loves school.  He loves his maze book to work on during school...I think it is his favorite thing to do right now, but that may be because it is the only thing that is just his that C or E don't get to play with.  I'm beginning to see how he's getting 'squished' as a middle child...C is more physically dominating...E is just 2.5 years cognitively older.  He gets bullied by both siblings in different ways.  It is interesting to watch and help him navigate this new territory.  But, he's generally a happy-go-lucky little man and makes the best out of his situation.  He's a great little brother and an awesome big brother on most days.

E is no longer a little girl.  Thankfully the attitude is settling down now that school is into a routine.  She loves learning...loves math, science and social studies.  She is so much fun to teach (the majority of the time).  She's loving dance this year.  She's in preballet and thinks it is great.  She's already all excited about the recital next spring.  I'm hoping she'll love her class all year.  Last year got rough but she's learning new things and I think she'll enjoy the more structure to class that she has this year as opposed to last year.

School is going well again.  It took us awhile to get into a rhythm and days that we have to do errands really mess up our schedule, but we are doing pretty well.  I like the curriculum.  E likes the curriculum.  So, that is good too.  I miss FIAR somedays...the freedom to choose activities and theme and sometimes worry about the rigor of what I chose but I'm certain that it will be fine in the end.

Deconstruction (by us) has started on our house.  Financing is getting worked out.  We joked last night that if the financing doesn't go through, we are going to have quite the mess to clean up!  The baseboards are coming out slowly but surely.  Mom has been a great help each night coming out too.  We are having fun and learning a thing or two already.  I think it gets more fun each time we go out.  It is interesting to start pulling things out and figuring out what is underneath.

Jut and the kids are having fun playing Xwing in the evenings or afternoons.  X would play it every day if he could.  StarWars Wii or Xwing are his favorite things to play.  Jut loves having the kids involved.  They have a great time.