Sorry it's been awhile since we've updated...the past month has been busy. We're pretty much done Christmas shopping, just a few more things to get. The kids are all doing really well. Lexie is finally starting to sleep long stretches at night...longer than 3 hours...yay! Last night she went to bed at 7pm and didn't wake to eat again until 2am. That's the best she's ever done. I can tell she's going to be a talker; she already makes the cutest cooing sounds. And her smile is so beautiful. Still being mean to her Daddy...she cries all the time if I leave her with him. Poor Daddy. :(
Julia's winter program is next week. She's very excited. We got a pretty red dress for her to wear. Wally left town this morning for a week, but luckily he'll make it back for her show. I can't believe Julia's first year of school is almost half over! She's grown up so much in the past few months, it's unbelievable. She's spelling words, writing, adding,she's just learning so much. A little too much sometimes! Yesterday she came home and asked "Mommy, C___ said there's a bad word in 'astronaut'. What is it?" Her little innocent face just killed me!! Apparently she was told that there is a bad word in "helicopter" too!
Aiden is continuing to learn new words daily. Today he just busted out a whole sentence..."Yay, we go school" But when he says school, it sounds like "skoo" He's tall enough now (36") that he can reach all the light switches in the house. He also loves to run the dishwasher. And he knows how to turn the dial so he CAN run it or start it over again. Sometimes I know the dishes are clean and done and all of a sudden I hear the dishwasher running again. Sigh. He's tough to keep up with lately, always busy.
Wally's out of town this week and then back for Christmas and New Year's. He's leaving the 3rd or 4th to go back to Savannah for about 6 weeks. Yuck. I'm hoping we can visit him a few times while he's there, but we'll have to see how busy we are.
I'm going to try to enjoy my last couple of weeks before I start back to school. I'm kind of excited to go back. I got my nametag for my internship in the mail and that was cool. It says "Mrs. Smith" :) I should find out about my placement soon. My classes begin the week of Jan 7, but the internship won't start until Jan 22nd. The classes I'm taking are Diagnostic Reading, Children's Literature, and Teaching Exceptional Students. After this semester I'll take two classes over the summer (one about teaching social studies and one about teaching students whose second language is English) and then take my final internship in Fall 08. So one year from now, I'll be graduating! YAY!
