In A Blink of an Eye

It seems like only yesterday Greyson turned 5 and now....


he's sporting the facial hair, just like Daddy (though Raif has never had the sweet Charlie Chaplin/Luigi 'stache)!!

Happy Birthday Cooper

To my favorite eternal puppy!!

The Quinncess and Rambo

We had an interesting juxtaposition of activities yesterday. Quinn had class pictures and picked out her prettiest dress to wear (and look it ISN'T pink, we are making progress). Greyson had "Fight Off Bad Habits" day (part of their healthy living series at school) and got to wear camo to school. So now I present to you.....the Quincess and Rambo (neither of them very happy).


PS This will be the closest Greyson ever gets to hunting and/or military service.

Flashback Friday

(Don't we all wish that 70's style would return....)

The Wordsmith

So last week her obsession was numbers. Learning to count to 100, learning to count by twos and fives and tens and even trying a little addition with her brother's head knocking system.

This week it is writing. While we had a little time before school she let me know that she was going to help her doll Sadie learn to write, which is interesting because she has shown little to know interest in it thus far. So after a couple of minutes she came back, all on her own, with the first sentence....


So we need to work a little on our spacing and our subject verb agreement but otherwise a spectacular first shot at writing. She asked me for another sentence to write so I gave her the second one. As always, way to go Quinn!

The Italian Job

My son has a lot of little quirks. One of the most endearing, I think, is the fact that he talks with his hands...A LOT. Honestly, I wouldn't be greatly surprised if our endocrinologist called one day and said they mixed up my egg with some Italian ones. You can always tell how excited he is about a story by watching how much he uses his hands (though I dare say I could do without the endless glasses of milk being spilled at dinner while he shares with us stories of his day).

These past couple weeks in school Greyson's class has been starting to learn simple addition or as they call it 'counting on.' It didn't surprise me in the least that he would use his hands to add...what surprised me is how he uses them.....



Notice anything interesting there? Yes, that's right he knocks his head each and every time he adds then uses his fingers to count on. At first I thought the head knocking was some sort of trick that his teacher taught him at school so I asked her about it at our last parent teacher conference. No, she says, she doesn't know where it came from. At this point I went directly to the source and asked Greyson.

"Ms. Kay says that we are suppose to start with the first number in our head and then count on so I am putting the first number in my head."

Well there you go, apparently he is knocking that first number in (or out of depending on your point of view) his head. Of course, Quinn having to do everything that Greyson does, is insisting on adding too and of course is pretty good at it and of course is knocking that first number in her head too. So I now have two head knocking adders in the house.

I can't wait to see what he does when they get to multiplication!

Welcome Back Old Friend

It just seems like yesterday that Greyson was bringing Corduroy home as part of the friendship series at school and now it is Quinn's turn. And while two years have gone by (really has it been THAT long) apparently some things are still the same around here....


(Just look at those cheeks....my baby has grown up so much in these past two years. Oh my.)