Yay! Also... Is it summer yet?

Yay! I got my phone connection working! Most of what's on there isn't worth posting, but here are two.

The girls in Las Vegas


Lexi after daycare trick-or-treating.

Lest I seem like a (more) horrible mother, she didn't actually eat all three of those. She opened them all, licked them all, set them all down, and I threw them away when she wasn't looking.

So, I think it's going to be a really long winter. Really. Long. I'm already wishing for summer. That's a bad sign. Apparently I'm not the only one. The other night Lexi said to me, "When us going boating, mom? Thursday? Us going boating Thursday." OK baby. Sounds good to me.

Sean's been pheasant hunting Saturday mornings and in the evenings in the field down the street from our house. Luckily, I don't think any pheasants really actually live there. If he gets one he's going to expect me to eat it, and I really, really hate gagging. So we'll hope that the season ends quietly and without dead birds at my house.

So Lexi is in this "pink" phase where she requests everything to be pink. She doesn't get upset if it isn't, thankfully, but it's, "I want my pink pumpkin." "I go to my pink school." "I want my pink pancake." "I'm riding in my pink boat, mom." If I say, "Let's get a redbox tonight," she'll say, "I want my pink box." I love the way they say things at this age. Yesterday she told me, "Mom, I love you best I can."

Josh is learning to read so well! I was worried because he got a really slow start. He had no interest in letters or numbers up until now. If I tried to talk to him about that kind of thing he would just change the subject. He really struggled at the beginning of Kindergarten, so I was thinking we were in for a real battle. But he's getting it down all of a sudden, thank goodness.

And so it goes...