Nic and Sally

This will only be funny if you watch a lot of children's cartoons. I just happened to remember this conversation with Ethan and wanted to get it on the blog.

Apparently Ethan had figured out on his own what Nic's first name was. And he had been calling Nic by his first name all day. So I asked Ethan, "what's mommy's name?". And quite quickly he answered "Sally".

The kids do love "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That" on PBS.

100% BOY!!

I wish I would have gotten a picture, but by the time I thought about it Ethan had scribbled all over the page. Ethan has started drawing people. They are still really rough, just a circle with eyes and two stick legs. But last night he added one more important piece, a penis. Yep, thats my boy. Then later drew blobs underneath this "person" and apparently that was poop.

Then as I was getting him dressed this morning, he bent over in front of me and said "see my butt!!" What an onry little thing he is! Good thing he's cute.

Indiana State Fair

Ever since the commercials started airing on PBS, Belle has been begging to go to the state fair. We ended up waiting for a cheap day and decided on a $2 Tuesday. Great decision. All the food vendors had $2 menu items, often just a smaller version of their most popular item. It was great to taste a lot of different foods and not totally break the bank.

Nic lost his cell phone. Thankfully someone found it and turned it into security at the Pepsi Colliseum. They called me (listed as an ICE contact) and we were able to track his phone down and get it back. Thank goodness. While Nic was getting the phone, the kids and I waited in the colliseum and watched the Clydesdales. The kids LOVED it! They would've sat there a lot longer. And really it was just Clydesdales pulling carts around in circles, nothing exciting.

We ended up finding someone else's phone which was funny. We picked it up and took it to the state police tent. There were no ICE contacts and I didn't quite feel comfortable just calling "Lil Mo" or any of the other contacts on the list. =)

I think I'm over the short hair. Or maybe just over the dark hair.

Still thankful for the wagon, but Belle is getting a little too big. There were lots of "he's stepping on my toes!!"

The kids got to pet an overly friendly cow. He thought Belle's shirt tasted good.

New Friends and the zoo

Man, I've been horrible this summer about taking pictures. I think I've just come to a point where I don't like carting around the DSLR anymore. Love it still, but it's been beaten up more than I'd like. So, I want a point and shoot camera for Christmas. One that doesn't take forever to take a picture. (In case someone was trying to think of Christmas gifts)

I happened to have my ipod with me at the zoo last week. We went with our friends Amy, Abby, Sammy, baby Henry, as well as Amy's friend Michelle and her two kids.

This might be Amy's kids first appearance on the blog. We are thankful for meeting up with them again. It's so nice to have a homeschooling buddy who has kids pretty much the same age. Belle and Abby were familiar with each other since they were both in the same ballet class (remember this post. That girl was Abby). They will also be in the same co-op class this fall.

We had a great time at the zoo. I thought for sure Ethan would fall asleep on the way home, but he didn't. We got home, I put Ethan in bed, set Belle up on the computer playing games and then went and laid down myself. An hour and a half later I woke up and couldn't find Belle ANYWHERE. I was realy starting to freak out until something made the computer wake up and I heard the game come on. I went upstairs to find her asleep behind the computer chair. This girl never naps!

Preschool

Well I figure I might as well see if I can teach Ethan this year along with Belle. So I have a "Letter of the Week" curriculum that I purchased really cheap (but haven't really used so far). Mostly Ethan will do his "I can Paste" book or his "I can Trace" book. I've put a few pages into page protectors and give him a dry erase marker and he really likes that. I do this in hopes of getting some uninterrupted time with Belle. Not always successful. He does love gluing though. If I can find a project that takes awhile I might be able to get more done.

This morning Ethan was up at about 7am. Belle has been sleeping in past 8am. So when Ethan caught me checking my email, he brought me his paste book. I figured we might as well do some preschool while we didn't have Belle around. We even did some tracing and I was quite impressed. Especially seeing how he's never traced anything before last week.

We got about 15mins of school time before this emerged. =)

First week of school

Well we made it!! Everyone cooperated (for the most part). I believe Ethan will be my biggest challenge this year. Just occupying him enough that I'm able to read or work with Belle. Hopefully he continues to nap so that I can get some school done at that time.

I'm liking Sonlight so far. I love that it's all planned out for me. Without that I know I'd be a huge mess. Belle is really liking her math and even asked to finish up some worksheets so that she could move onto a new lesson.

I just thought that I should take some sort of first day of school picture, but the week is over. Maybe a first week of school picture will have to do.

Here are some ipod photos from this week. And I'll load a pretty funny video of Ethan's "education" this week. (ignore the messy hallway)

Ethan's first dentist appointment

This morning was Belle's dentist appointment. Ethan went along for a "happy check" where they would test the waters and just introduce him to the dentist. They were able to get a full cleaning done on him. Such a big boy! The hygienist commented on how not to many 3 yr old boys will stand for a cleaning.
I think Ethan's need to do EVERYTHING Belle does helped us in this situation.

Belle on the other hand was jumping up and down excited to get her teeth cleaned and told the girl that she just loved the tooth polisher. Belle was also a big help and said she's stand beside Ethan when it was his turn in case he got nervous.