Happy Valentine's Day!
The Ides of February have rolled around again, and I thought I'd take a moment to say to my hubby: I love you! You are everything I could have asked for...caring, a wonderful husband (in all aspects *wink*), a marvellous daddy, and even a fellow geek. All three of us really missed you last week, you know! It's hard to believe many things...that we have a young man who is going to be going to Real School in the fall...that this year will be thirteen years married and that it's a good number so far! That we have an adorable tom-girly girl who obviously gets her silly streak from you (Ryan too!). While I wouldn't turn down winning the lottery, I have to say, life is good!
A little update on small people back he-ere!
Small aside...when the small people hide and the parents (or sibling) is supposed to be finding them, Rachel very helpfully will ease the search by very musically calling out "Right He-ere!" That is also the Polo to anyone's "Marco" of "Where's Rachel?"
As I was tucking him into bed last night, Ryan asked me last night what he could be when he grows up. I told him he could be anything he wanted to be, and asked him what that might be. He pondered it for a minute before confidently declaring "I want to be an artist." He uncertainly followed it up with "Or is that something only girls can be?" I told him no, that both boys and girls can be artists, and he was satisfied. I seriously need to get some of his work online.
We began a transition for Rachel last weekend...she's been going to bed in panties. So far, we have had two big accidents, and several mornings in which she woke up dry. I've been hustling her to the potty if she's dry. The thing is...I don't think it wakes her if she has an accident. Either that, or it happens as she's just waking up, because on the two accident mornings, she didn't come get me or even seem upset or anything, I noticed it this morning when I went to wake her up, and she had gotten up and was playing in her room on the other morning it happened.
They were both, however, shipped off to school today with their little luggable backpacks full of valentines for their classmates. Ryan wrote all of his out, though we did note a strong tendancy for him to want to flip his "S"'s the wrong direction. I wrote Rachel's, though the "TO" lines are all blank, she was just officially moved to the three year old class (she's been spending a lot of time there already) and neither her new class or the old one provided a list of names like Ryan's did. Rachel also took her pink hedgehog that her AL grandma had sent to her - she wanted to show it to her friends. They both got hedgehogs (Ryan's is a brown one) and they were having great fun last night chasing each other with them.
Hubby and I don't have any big plans tonight...we were going to both take today off and have a date afternoon, but circumstances intervened, so our date afternoon probably won't happen till early next month. But I'm super lucky in my selection of people that I won't be doing anything big with :-)
A little update on small people back he-ere!
Small aside...when the small people hide and the parents (or sibling) is supposed to be finding them, Rachel very helpfully will ease the search by very musically calling out "Right He-ere!" That is also the Polo to anyone's "Marco" of "Where's Rachel?"
As I was tucking him into bed last night, Ryan asked me last night what he could be when he grows up. I told him he could be anything he wanted to be, and asked him what that might be. He pondered it for a minute before confidently declaring "I want to be an artist." He uncertainly followed it up with "Or is that something only girls can be?" I told him no, that both boys and girls can be artists, and he was satisfied. I seriously need to get some of his work online.
We began a transition for Rachel last weekend...she's been going to bed in panties. So far, we have had two big accidents, and several mornings in which she woke up dry. I've been hustling her to the potty if she's dry. The thing is...I don't think it wakes her if she has an accident. Either that, or it happens as she's just waking up, because on the two accident mornings, she didn't come get me or even seem upset or anything, I noticed it this morning when I went to wake her up, and she had gotten up and was playing in her room on the other morning it happened.
They were both, however, shipped off to school today with their little luggable backpacks full of valentines for their classmates. Ryan wrote all of his out, though we did note a strong tendancy for him to want to flip his "S"'s the wrong direction. I wrote Rachel's, though the "TO" lines are all blank, she was just officially moved to the three year old class (she's been spending a lot of time there already) and neither her new class or the old one provided a list of names like Ryan's did. Rachel also took her pink hedgehog that her AL grandma had sent to her - she wanted to show it to her friends. They both got hedgehogs (Ryan's is a brown one) and they were having great fun last night chasing each other with them.
Hubby and I don't have any big plans tonight...we were going to both take today off and have a date afternoon, but circumstances intervened, so our date afternoon probably won't happen till early next month. But I'm super lucky in my selection of people that I won't be doing anything big with :-)