It's officially starting to feel like Fall with both of my boys in school now. Caleb had his first day of preschool last week Monday, September 10th. Mondays will be kind of a crazy day in our house for school. Gabe goes at 8:00 am, then Caleb goes at 12:00, then Gabe gets done at 1:25 (every other day it's 2:25), then Caleb gets done at 2:15. Good thing it's all right across the street! Avery and I go for lots of stroller walks that day! Don't ask me why Gabe gets done with school an hour early one day a week. That must be an Idaho thing. I had never heard of that but I guess in Ashton they get out early on Friday. In good ol' Wisconsin it was about 8:30 to 3:00 Monday through Friday! I also wish school started at 8:30 and went to 3:00 here. The waking up early thing is kind of killing me. Usually Avery wakes up sometime between 5:00 and 6:30. So depending on when she wakes up I try to squeeze in time to get myself ready before Gabe gets up at 7:00. Josh has been working 7:00 am to 5:00 pm the past two weeks so the hours between 5:00 to 8:00 am are definitely the most stressful times of my day.
Getting Gabe out the door has been a bit of a challenge lately. He doesn't seem to have the zest for learning that some kids do! I blame Josh. :) I was a nerd that loved school. I asked him if maybe he wanted to switch to a different class but he said, "No! I love Mrs. Henneke!" so I don't think it's that she's mean or anything. I think he just gets sick of being at school for 6 hours. They are really pushing the whole reading thing (that annoying little reading thing! ha ha) so then he gets home at 2:30 and it's time for homework, which seems to take at least 45 minutes.I would say he's a little behind with his reading compared to his classmates, so we really need to spend extra time working through books. Luckily Avery usually sleeps in the afternoon from about 1:30 to 4:30. So she's pretty easy while I help Gabe.
Caleb, on the other hand, LOVES to jump on the trampoline with me. So usually he asks "When can you jump on the trampoline with me?" at least 10 times a day. I can divide 90 percent of Caleb's questions into 3 categories: 1)"When can you jump with me?" 2) "Can you put on the Wii for me?" and 3)"Can you get me some hot chocolate?" He's a simple man. His needs are very predictable.
He went pretty easily to preschool on Monday. I don't worry about him too much there. I drop him off, he waves good-bye as he is already distracted playing with some toy. The only thing I worry about a little bit is that it's a preschool that's half for special needs kids and I worry that Caleb might have one of his Hulk bad temper moments and haul off and whack some handicapped kid that steals his toy someday. No calls from the teacher yet.... knock on wood.
Little Miss Avery is doing well. She is a pretty easy baby. She sleeps really well at night. I put her in her crib all swaddled up around 9:30. Sometimes she wakes up once around 4 am and eats and goes back to sleep but typically it's after 5 or 6. I think she gave me her first genuine smile yesterday. I was holding her and I smiled and said, "Can you give me a real smile?" and she smiled really big with her mouth open and even chuckled a little. It was super cute. I have her 2-month appointment this week so I will post stats then. I think, judging by how she is fitting into clothes, she weighs about 12 pounds. We will see! Her eyes still look blue. I wonder if they will stay that way. Her hair doesn't really seem to be falling out. Some people have said it looks a little lighter though. Her fingers still seem really long to me. Maybe that means she will be tall? Who knows. She is wearing size 3 month sleepers and almost into the ones that are 3-6 months. I think newborn usually ends at 8 pounds and three month ends at 12 pounds. Anyways, she is growing fast!
We had a fun little day at Porter Park yesterday. Josh was doing this bird hunting thing and so the kids and I went and got snow cones and played. Then the boys stripped down to their shorts and ran around in the spray park like little ghetto kids. It was great. It may be the last day it is warm enough to do that and there were only like 3 other people there so I let them be rebels this once. Oh also, there's a funny picture of both the boys in Caleb's bed together. They fell asleep in there like that by their own choice! It was so cute. But then Caleb peed the bed about an hour later. Not so cute then. Haha.
Also, I think I have officially gotten rid of all my little boys clothes now. Between second-hand stores, garage sales and online postings I think I probably made about $400 on all of it. I just sold my jungle crib bedding stuff to a girl on Saturday for $80. It was a little sad to see the end of the baby boy stuff era but it's onto the girly things now! I also have a goal to put food storage and emergency prep supplies on the shelves where my 9 bins of baby stuff once were... I figure if Obama gets reelected we might as well all prepare for a total economic collapse. Sorry, had to slide in one political rant for Jesse. :)
So that is the report for this first half of September! It's getting a little chillier! At night it was down to 33 degrees the other day! Crazy! Here comes Winter! Noooo!!!!
"Turn out the lights, please."
"Save me from these crazy brothers!"
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