Ben made a new friend at school

A little girl named Emma.

At the end of the school day today Ben invited Emma to our house. I chatted with her mum a bit to make arrangements for another day to get the kids together during which time I noticed Ben reach out and hold Emma's hand. (So cute!) And as we were leaving Ben blew Emma a kiss, then yelled 'Did you get it??', to which Emma replied 'Yep!' holding up her little fist. (Adorable!!)

Caitlin's obsession

Ben's stuff. She loves Ben's stuff. And I'm not talking about whatever toy he's playing with, but the oddest things.

Example A: I give her and Ben a bowl of cereal for breakfast in the morning. Ben finishes first and leaves the table. Caitlin pushes her bowl away, slides Ben's bowl over and eats the scraps instead of eating her own, usually still half-full, bowl.

Example B: We come home from being out somewhere. We all take our shoes off. Caitlin puts Ben's shoes on and continues around the house. She's wearing them right now and has a fit if they come off.

Example C: She likes to wear Ben's underwear. The other night she went to sleep wearing a pair of his underwear over her jammies. So, this morning when she went to help herself to a pair of his underwear I thought I'd surprise her with her own underwear. I brought her a bag with packs of girlie underwear, opened a pack, and she totally shunned them, put them all back in the bag, handed the bag to me, and went back to Ben's room for his HotWheels underwear which she then wore for nap.

Halloween '10

At Ben's suggestion the kids went as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.

I made the costumes. It was totally simple. Red pants, red shirts, 'dark shirt' iron on transfers, blue fleece (for single seam hats, as hair), and basic image editing to create the shirt logos. I got the hat for hair idea from a youtube video.

Here are my little Halloweenies this year!



(If you click the image you can see it in full size.)

So incredibly proud of Ben!

This is what my boy - the one who finds reading and spelling 'boring' - did at school last week!


I'm so, so incredibly proud of Ben. I burst into tears when his teacher showed me what he'd done (she invited me in at the end of the day to see). He worked so hard on it and was so proud of himself. What a kid.