Week In Review: October 28-November 3
This past Sunday, we carved pumpkins:
Neve had her first Parents as Teachers home visit on Monday. According the parent educator, Neve is right on track developmentally. I didn’t really have any concerns but it was still good to have some reassurance.
After school on Monday, the boys had karate. After karate, we were headed to the Intergenerational Book Club at our church for the first time when a tire on my van blew out. The boys found this very exciting. When I pulled into a gas station and got out to look at the tire, I muttered, “god dammit” when I saw it was flat. Little did I know West had hopped out of the van too and was right behind me. I heard a little voice echo, “Dammit!” It was actually really cute but I did tell him that was a grown-up word that I shouldn’t use and neither should he. Then I called Travis and he and Neve were able to come rescue us in time for us to make the last half of the book club. The book was Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat. It was really fun – we all had a great time. I’ll have a more detailed post all about it later in the week.
Tuesday night was David Sedaris at the Kauffman Center!
Wednesday was Halloween:
Thursday night was parent/teacher conferences at the boys’ school. Both boys got great reports. It’s pretty amazing that they can behave so well at school when they are pretty much maniacs all the time here at home. I guess I should be glad that they are capable of good behavior – there is hope it will happen at home someday!
Friday the boys were off school and we spent most of the day running errands to make sure we had everything we needed to get our family Christmas pictures taken Saturday morning. While looking for dress pants and tights, I somehow got talked into buying them all new hoodies. They are so lucky their mom likes to buy them clothes! I’m thinking of getting myself one too so we can all match.
Getting our Christmas pictures taken on Saturday morning went really well. The very best part was getting to include Neve in all the family portraits. When we have a foster placement, I always have some family portraits taken without the foster child because I know that they probably won’t end up being a permanent member of the family. But Neve is in our family FOREVER!! so she could be in all the pictures.
Saturday night was our church’s annual auction. We bid on and won an overnight babysitter! One of the women in the congregation who is a teacher and great with kids will come to our house and stay overnight with our kids. Sweet!
