I've been working on so many other projects that it's been hard to find time to blog lately! Although fall hasn't officially started yet, I'm already in the Halloween mood, and things are changing!
Gabe started school at The Lighthouse. So far so good, I guess. The teacher says he's doing fine academically and making friends ... she only occasionally has to remind him to pay attention in class. Somehow this report seems unrealistically rosy to me. I guess she has a lot of patience ... I'm sure it also helps that there are only four or five kids in her class!
It's still like pulling teeth to get Gabe to do homeschool for us. And speaking of pulling teeth, he also went to the dentist on Friday! They didn't pull any of his teeth, but they did recommend we get one of his baby teeth out. It's wiggly, and they had told me it was ready to come out the last time we were in the office 8 months ago! The enamel is partially worn off on the front of it. Oh, how I hate that tooth! I've been pressuring him to wiggle it and work with it often. He doesn't want anyone to pull it out for him.
Gabe's biggest hobbies are collecting toys and drawing. The former can get really expensive for us ... I encourage the latter whenever I can! He loves to sit down with adults, get them to draw pictures, and copy them. I wish I had more time to sit with him but seem to be carrying Max around all day all the time ...
Max is teething like crazy lately and whining about it most of the time. Poor Max! Also, poor everyone else! He's very adept at spitting out Tylenol, and he hates Orajel too. Other than the irritation caused by teething and some nasal stuffiness at night he is doing fine and keeping up with his milestones. I can't wait to see some actual teeth.
Since the swine flu is going around I am, of course, worried about that. I also question whether we all might have already had it, since we had some kind of virus sweep our compound last month. I hope so. Gabe is tired of my worrying about it. I continue to read the bulletins about it online, and Gabe has asked me to "please just stop reading about it!" I made a sentence out of his spelling words last week, and it went: The big, fat, sick pig ate cake in the rain for ten days. Gabe said that maybe the big, fat, sick pig had the swine flu.
I've started a major project in preparing for our yearly Halloween blowout. I have 11 monsters planned for the Cookie Witch hunt, and I also want to have a smaller, less scary Pumpkin Goblin hunt for the littler kids. I didn't realize how many crates full of Halloween stuff I had till Mom started pulling them down for me ... They are taking up a major part of storage. Dan pulled the dummies out of the attic for me too. He says he hopes that if the police ever search our house that they are the kind who ask questions first, since we keep bodies in the attic.
Gabe and Joe got GI Joe costumes. For once Joe is wearing black and Gabe is wearing white ... but it's because in this case, the good guy wears black and the bad guy wears white! Gabe's costume is Storm Shadow, and apparently he's a bad guy. I'll try to have some pics of them next week. Maya has a Snow White costume, and it's funny to see her walking around wearing it with a witch's hat on. She always want to play a game with Mom where Mom has to play the role of the "mean tiger."
We've started attending church lately, although we missed today ... It's a Baptist church called Life Bridge that's only a couple minutes' drive from our house.
Well, that's all for now!
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