Catching up

Well, at least you know that I'll be posting twice a month to celebrate my favourite boys' monthiversaries. Whew, it's just been busy AND with our friend Liam being so interested in playing on the computer, I'm lucky if I can even turn it on in the morning without it being the centre of Liam's attention all day. We had a computer abstinence week last week and that seemed to break the cycle a bit. Now all I have to do is hide the mouse ("quamma" is what Liam calls it. He sees it as another camera since it's always beside my camera on the desk). Liam has become quite adept at his computer literacy skills. He can navigate the internet to find Sesame Street and Thomas the Train sites and plays the games on the Thomas site with pretty good accuracy. One is an emotions game where he has to choose which tank has a 'sad' face. He can read the words sad, angry, happy, scared, etc. and pick the appropriate face. It's neat to see, but if he could, he would stay on the computer alllll day. Or at least most of the day with a few running breaks built in.

Liam playing with his Snowflake bear from our Polar Bear Express Train Ride

Jude enjoying his train ride

Figures. I had 5 minutes to post these last two posts while Liam was playing on my phone (I wonder who he called/texted today) and he caught me. He's now sitting on my lap and trying his hardest not to touch anything or he is banned from my lap. He's reading through this picking out everytime he sees his name. :)

The fam at the Polar Express

Anyway, things are crazy. I'll post more once everything has settled down. As it stands, we're leaving in a few days to drive home to Ottawa for Christmas if everything works out.

Well, Liam's now listening to NPR on my phone. Hm. I've never listened to NPR on my phone...

Merry Christmas!

Love,

b

Jude taking down Liam for all of those pokes in the eye