Michael called me at work today to tell me Liam was sitting on the toilet "going poopy" reading a starwars comic book.

Like father, like son. :)

Indians and Pilgrims at School

All of the kids in Liam's class were required to dress as Pilgrims and Indians. The teacher sent home a note specifying which to dress as. Liam was supposed to be a pilgrim but I requested that he be allowed to be an Indian.

When we got to the school Michael said all the Indians had something in common. I nievely said, "a feather", to which Michael replied, "nope, there's something else." Sure as shit, I walk in the room and all the black children were dressed as Indians and all the white children were dressed as Pilgrims. wow. WTF???

As a sidenote, all the Black kids were seated at the 2 tables closest to the door. sigh.

We will be touring the Catholic School at our church very soon.

UPDATE (11/2008): We have been in FREEEEE public school since July and LOVE IT!

so tired...so tired..so tired but DONE!

I have finally finished the adoption photo album. I tried to include everyone but it just wasn't possible. I had to limit the number of pages because I need to print 20 copies!! We love all of you, whether we included your photo or not.

:)

Liam and I are on page 50 of Harry Potter and he's still keeping up! He loves it. If Seth wasn't such a distraction, Liam would be able to pay attention better. We read until mommy gets a headache from Liam talking to Seth and Seth saying, "mommy, mommy, MOMMY ... a ball, a ball?" Too bad we don't have more hours in a day.

When the boys are ready for bed, or when I'm ready for the boys to be ready for bed, we do our normal routine of bath, bed, brushing teeth, and books, and I put the baby gate up so they stay in there. Seth usually floats around the room for at least 30 minutes and then crawls in bed next to Liam. He has his own bed but they will only sleep together. Last night was a little different. I thought I heard a thump sound and when I went to their room to check on them, the 1st thing I saw was Seth, asleep on the floor next to the gate. The funny part was that instead of climbing into bed with Liam he went over to the bed, got his pillow, stuffed pig, and a blanket and took it over the gate and went to sleep. I guess he was so pissed off by being told it was bedtime he refused to sleep in his bed.

yes...I moved him to his bed.

Wonderful new words

Well, Seth finally has some words.

Last weekend he saw my coffee cup and said, "Mommy's agua".

Beer bottle = "Daddy's agua"

All cereal, crackers, goldfish and other crunchy foods are "fish".

Anything round, edible or not, is an apple.

OH yeah.....most stuff is preceeded by the word MINE. Mine apple, which really sounds like mine appooo, mine shoe, mine fish.

Luckily, potty is really potty so there are no bathroom miscommunications. I am thankful for small favors.

Liam Loves Reading Harry Potter

We've tried reading Harry Potter twice before but Liam had a hard time keeping up with the story so he lost interest pretty early on. I decided to try it again and what a difference!!! I stop every couple of paragraphs so we can briefly review what's going on and that seems to help keep him focused. He was so interested this time we read for over an hour before bed and I had to cut him off at the end of the chapter. He was asking about what might happen to certain characters and wanted to keep reading until we knew for sure what was going to happen.

I think it's so cool when he stops me to ask what a word means. That tells me he's really paying attention. Tonight he asked about spectacles, sparkling, and odd.

I wonder if I can a section to my goodreads.com profile for his books. :)

UPDATE: yes, I can.

2nd in home visit

Well, my little minions were more like themselves this time around. Liam even got a timeout. Seth was...well...he was 2. :)

Apparently, she neglected to send me a 28 page questionnaire. It sounds like some sort of in depth autobiographical task. 28 pages....tweeeeeenty eeeeeeight paaaages. I don't think every detail of my life would fill 28 pages. I wonder if it's a bunch of "What if...." situational stuff. Short essay....28 pages of short essays about us. WOW. I pity the person who has to read it. I can't imagine we'll end up writing "Best Seller List" caliber essays. I keep telling myself maybe 28 pages isn't as long as I think it is.

It is.

(time to go...the minions are howling)