tidbits

There's not been a lot of exciting news around here, so I feel like the blog has been a little lean lately.  Life is full and busy and good, though...just not that exciting to write about!  But I thought I'd share some little bits and pieces of life around here.

*Rebecca is the little social butterfly of the bus stop.  Every adult knows her, since she engages them all in conversation each morning.  Now the bigger kids know who she is, too, and several of them (mostly girls, but sometimes a couple of boys, too), talk to her.  At the end of the day there aren't many other adults at the bus stop (I guess parents think it's okay to let their elementary students walk home alone?!), but there's always one other mom there waiting, and she and Rebecca carry on conversations each afternoon.  Yesterday the woman's older daughter was there waiting instead (she's college-aged).  Rebecca went right up to her and started talking to her.  What did they talk about?  "This is my foot," Rebecca would tell her.  "Yes, it is!" the girl would respond.  "There's a diaper on my bottom," Rebecca declared.  After laughing the girl said, "Oh, okay!"  And on and on, one statement after another--mostly about body parts.  Oh, that girl....

*Rachel lost another tooth this week--her seventh.  When I was her age I hadn't lost my first tooth yet!  Crazy! 

*We decided not to let Rachel sleep over at the party I wrote about last week.  She's going to the party and staying until close to bedtime.  She is pretty okay with the whole thing, so I'm thankful.  I expected a much bigger reaction when I told her she couldn't stay, but she was pretty nervous about sleeping somewhere else.

*Rachel and Rebecca fight like cats and dogs.   Whatever one has, the other one wants.  Rebecca's in the non-sharing phase of being two years old, so I expect it, but Rachel?  She's supposed to be past that stage.  But she's also in this really frustrating tattle tale stage, though, so even if sharing isn't the issue with her, she's constantly telling on Rebecca who's not sharing.  It's constant, and so annoying to listen to!  They play well together for short periods of time, and those moments are heavenly, but sadly, they don't last very long most of the time.

Tomorrow we head north for Thanksgiving with my family.  Usually we'd be there by now, but because my husband started a new job last spring, he doesn't have much vacation time built up yet, so he has to work today.  Thankfully he was able to take Friday off--we originally thought he was only going to get Thursday off.  So that means we can spend a few days there, which is much better than I was expecting.  But I wish I was there today! 

Happy Thanksgiving!