Ready

Xavier is wishing he could go to preschool too.

Splendor in the Grass - or Roll, Roll, Roll in ze Hay

The kids enjoying their new back yard.

Local Wildlife

Exclusive pictures of Bush the turtle trying to break into our family room. She (?) marched back and forth in front of the sliding glass doors, scratching at the window, for the better part of 2 hours one afternoon.

Knock knock

Xavier: Knock knock!
Sonora: Who's there?
Xavier: Boo!
Sonora: Boo who?
Xavier: I got my pajamas on!

Almost, buddy!

School Daze

Sonora had a rough start this week at preschool, so it didn't surprise me to hear her crying after bedtime last night. I went in and asked her what was wrong. She sobbed, "My foot! My foot!" nearly incoherently. I tried putting socks on, I checked her foot, which seemed fine, to no avail. She appeared to really be feeling pain and she had banged her toes on that foot earlier in the evening, so I gave her a dose of Tylenol. Then I laid back down with her in bed, and we had this conversation:

Sonora: It still hurts!
Me: You have to give it a little bit of time for the medicine to work.
...A few minutes later...
Sonora: Mommy, my foot is feeling better!
Me: That's great!
Sonora: It just moved up into my leg now.
Me: Oh, that's too bad.
Sonora: It will just keep moving up through my body. It will just come out through my forehead at school in the morning.
Me: Oh yeah? I hope so.
Sonora: Yeah, it's just my blood pressure.

Dances with Cats

Xavier saw this beautiful cat in the yard this morning. They stared at each other, fascinated, for probably 10 minutes. Here is a transcript:

Xavier: It's a giant cat!

Xavier: Look at that giant cat!

Xavier: May I touch that giant cat?

Xavier: I wan' touch that giant cat!

Xavier: He needs some chockit milk!

Xavier: He needs some juice!

Cat: [stares] Do my bidding, human child.

Preschool Panic

Sonora is all ready to start her new preschool in the morning, just a couple of blocks away at Shepherd Lutheran Preschool. I would have preferred a preschool/daycare that could also take Xavi, especially after touring a few schools. He is so excited about it. He ran and explored at the few places I took them both to look at. And when Sonora would introduce herself, he would also proudly pound his chest and say, "Hi! I'm Vavier!" with the most engaging be-dimpled smile he can muster (which is considerably charming, in my biased opinion). So I am holding my breath
and hoping that a) I picked the right one for her and b) I figure out something satisfactory for him.

Living with Mrs. Malaprop

Sonora's Mother Goose:

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With cockle shells and Taco Bell...
Wait, how does it go, Mom?