Life

Life with Emma:
- She's obsessed with drawing right now. Her smiley faces have changed so the smiles are big and wide and cheesy. Still no bodies, just huge heads with stick arms and legs. She draws scenes now, like Hubs under a showerhead, or me crying because it's raining.

- She wants to be a unicorn for Halloween, a sudden departure from her Disney Princess costume obsession.

- She's jumped into Kindergarten with two feet, racing to be first in line every morning when Mrs. Collins blows her whistle. She's memorized the Pledge of Allegiance, loves to sing their new Good Morning song, and reports every single day that the best part of her day was playing on the computers.

- She loves apples, almonds, carrots with hummus, tomato slices, corn on the cob, milk, and most recently, hamburgers.

- Her imagination is exploding again, and she can pretend the most benign toy is something super fabulous.

Life with Grant:
- Every day is a different day with this kid. Today I found a toy ball in the wash when I moved his diapers into the dryer because he was playing a game where he put the ball in the hole of the diaper pail and then flipped the lid to have it drop down. Yesterday, he built a Tinkertoy "tool" to help him drag the kleenex box off the mantle.

- He's decided he's only going to pee standing up. I have to remind him not to dance around while he's going potty, and have stocked his bathroom with a jumbo sized container of Clorox wipes.

-His favorite book right now is Curious George, we read it several times a day. He thinks George is "hoooo hilly" (sooooo silly).

- He loves peanut butter off a spoon, bananas, goldfish crackers, blueberries, tomato slices, and pita pizzas.

- He's happy and occupied anytime he has a stick and some dirt to dig in. It's how he passes the time each day when we wait for Emma at school pick up time.

Life with Kids:
Today we met up with some of Hub's friends from college. We've been friends forever, in fact, two of them were in our wedding. We used to get together for late dinners, or meet up in bars, or have spur of the moment movie showings or group dinners that lasted all day.

But today we found ourselves in a family friendly restaurant, with all of us married but the one who is engaged, and just as many kids at the table as there were adults. I looked at one of the friends and just start laughing as he notices, "Everyone has a miniature version of themselves now!"

Kids have changed our life, that's for sure. We spend our weekend mornings at gymnastics instead of sleeping in then lounging with the paper and coffee, we spend our evenings at soccer practice instead of grabbing a late dinner, and our cupboards have more plastic cups than glasses some days.

But we get to witness little people grow into their own personalities, develop friendships, and turn to their siblings for entertainment and laughs. They've become buddies with each other while maintaining their own selves.

They're pretty cool kids.