Weekend Highlights

After spending all week at home with the kiddies for spring break, we thought spending the weekend with them in a hotel might be a good idea. And it actually was.


Chad in the top of Yaquina Lighthouse





Favorite Moments:
- Chad's overwhelming joy with kite flying, and his warning to all on the beach that seagulls were on the loose.
- Aubrey professing her love of sausage and her aspiration to live in a light house and turn the light on every night.
- Sam's demand on our trip home: "Bored, bored! Need a hotel!"

Not so favorite, but secretly funny:
- Aubrey spotting an elderly couple - leaning over their walkers, and then insisting that she walk like them as well.
- Chad falling in the waves, fully clothed.

I just want to go back. Anyone else? Seriously, just name the day.

Hope

We had a few rough days, but I think we are sticking with it! Training an almost two year old is quite different than working with a 3 year old. In one year, a child can become quite obstinate and manipulative. Or is that just my personal experience? Sadly, my carpet cleaner did not make it. I have to get me a new Little Green Machine, I love it so.

Misinformed?

I've been told the best age to potty train is 22 months. I believe I have been misinformed. Nontheless, I am committed to giving it 3 days. We are at 1030 hours on the second day, enjoying the latest issue of Car & Driver. Lets just hope my carpet cleaner can hold out.

It's elementary, my dear Watson

The kiddies and I were on a walk recently, when I spotted an opportunity to educate my children. And this is what I saw:














Trying to impress my kiddies, I said "Did you know, that those are called cattails?"

Chad responded in a rather patronizing way: "Actually, I believe those are called Bulrush."

I hate when my 6 year old sounds smarter than me (or is it I, now I'm self conscious) . I couldn't just let it go, I had to look it up and see who was right. Thanks to Wikipedia, I believe we are both right.

"These plants are known in British English as bulrush, bullrush or reedmace,^[1] in American English as cattail..."

I'm beginning to think that my child's education is downright un-American (I had to look up that word too). Dang the English for always sounding smarter than the Americans!

Snow Fun

We got a white Christmas, just a few days late.

The learning curve is steep for my kiddies...



but they got it eventually!

Just a few of my favorite things...

My favorite Christmas moments:

1. Chad intensely engrossed in a snowball fight, forgetting that he had no coat or gloves on (we found snow on the way to the beach).

2. When we came to the part in the nativity scene where Aubrey was asked to wrap the babe in swaddling clothes, she refused, claiming she could never swallow a baby.

3. Hearing the sound of a chair sliding across the kitchen floor, and finding Sam using it to get to the gingerbread house on the counter.