Boys Gone for the Weekend

New PJs!

It's actually been a quiet week or two here. It's been a lot of stressful ups and downs. We were all sick there for a week or two (colds, still have a nasty morning cough here but Peanut and Mr Veggie seem past it) and then in the middle of it we got bad news about my out of the home job, it was a start up and it was struggling and needed to cut labor.

School - it's going great! He's communicating so much better - still not in the normal range, but damn it feels like we're getting close to whole thoughts, pronouns are sneaking it, and he's often attaching 'the' and 'a' in front of nouns. And he's a singing fool. I go pick him up and he's playing trains with another kid, or pretending to make lunch with another kid, or playing chase/tag with groups of kids. There are always a chorus of kids who yell 'goodbye!' when we leave, and it only takes a nudge from me to get him to reciprocate (the first few weeks it was a lot of coaching 'say byebye back. No louder. No yell really loud!'). His teachers say, aside from a few quirks he always is a great role model, great at cleaning up, and participates in group activities (quirks? Yeah, well, he likes to dump his water on the floor when done drinking).

He's tooooo big

Yesterday he was in such a great mood, and it was after sleeping 12 hours, we had a monster on our hands tonight, after 9. And he's struggling to fall asleep tonight. Ah well.

We've been discussing his birthday party, a small thing on Thursday then the train on Saturday. We have a great idea for Thursday, but I gotta give the beginning credit to Mr. Veggie. The rest was all me ;) He suggested that we have a Winnie the Pooh birthday instead of trains, since Saturday was going to be about trains. And considering he wanders around quoting pooh lines and singing pooh songs, we can have a lot of fun with that. My beginning plan:

Hiking

Breakfast of honey butter toast. go to school, come back and the house is all ready to go. Hopefully GG will be here by then, we will give Peanut a blue balloon, lift him up onto Mr Veggie's shoulders, and they'll go searching for the honey jar in the trees. Then we'll have lunch of yellow pasta (his favorite) and with stuffed tummies, we'll go discover Pooh is wedged... somewhere. We'll pound a sign into the ground next to him saying "don't feed the bear!" Then pull him out. We'll then get into the car, head down to Pooh Sticks bridge, and play pooh sticks. If it's a 'Windsday' we'll fly a kite too. Then we'll head back for cupcakes decorated like Winnie the Pooh. Peanut has requested 'cockolat cucakes.'

So that's our running idea. That's enough rambling for tonight.