September 12-14, 2005

So far this week has been stellar. Luisy and Christian are feeling well - they successfully fought off a sinus cold late last week... and they are both sleeping well (as usual), eating great, etc.

The weather is getting nicer by the day, so they are starting to go outside at school. The Home Daycare (HDC) has a very nice outside set up that Mommy has been excited to see the boys be able to use - but when the weather is so hot, even plastic equipment outside is too hot to touch.

Nothing too exciting to report for this week; other than a trip to Cracker Barrel for pancakes on Tuesday night. We were all headed home, but mommy decided that pancakes sounded great, and nobody does them like Cracker Barrel. This was out first dinner out with the whole family that went really well! Christian and Luisy both had their own little chair, and they enjoyed drinking their milks (from a cup with a straw - which daddy had to work with Christian on, since his inclination is to either: a) poke himself in the eye with it; or b) try to drink out of the rim of the glass, not the straw... but hey, when you're getting big, you have to have a glass with a straw!) The pancakes were great, and when we were leaving, Luisy asked if we could come back tomorrow for more pancakes... maybe next week we'll do it again!

Really not too much going on... we're just trying to keep it all together, there is a lot that goes into being one and two, you know! Mommy and Daddy are keeping busy - Daddy is flying to Milwaukee tomorrow (Thursday) for business, and Mommy just started a Project Management class for school... Luisy and Christian will be doing some work tomorrow at the dinner table - Mommy picked up some more Rainbow Goldfish crackers, so we have lots of sorting (colors) and counting to do!

Luisy's quote, "Daddy, can we spin a cocoon?" - One of Luisy's favorite stories is, The Caterpillar and the Pollywog; in which you learn that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly - and at one point you see her spin her cocoon - so anyway, what does daddy do? Gets towels for he and Luisy to spin the cocoons! Way to go Daddy!

Christian's quote, "tawbewey" - repeated over and over as he ate a nice, messy, juicy, ripe strawberry on the way home from school - he had fun jamming his index finger into it to make a nice hole... oh, the fun!