Wednesday, November 17, 2010

New Stuff

This is not new, but kind of funny. At night Bodie only goes part way out the door and ends up blocking it so neither of the other 2 dogs can get out. You can see his tail sticking through the dog door (sometimes it's his back 2 legs and tail) and poor Sophie waiting for him to get a clue and move on!

Connor is back into letters again...and Evan is into anything Connor is into. Connor can match upper and lower case letter without help and knows quite a few of the sounds. Last night Dave was asking him how to spell things and no matter what he asked the answer was always c-o-n-n-o-r....which was pretty funny. Occasionally if he knew the correct first letter then he'd change the first letter but then spell the rest of his name...i.e.-horse is h-o-n-n-o-r.

He's started to like to write too. He gets up on my desk and writes on whatever I have. We've had some serious conversations about asking if it's ok first. The other day he got the refrigerator and pantry door with a pen and then colored on the computer screen with a crayon. We've got some work to do in this area.

Evan learned to climb up on the fireplace today..he's getting down now. Last Friday he got his 5th tooth...slow going with this one too! He's very into dogs and stealing whatever his brother has away from him. He runs if he has a poopy diaper and laughs as you chase him down. He still shakes his head no if you tell him it's nigh-night time or ask him to say bye-bye to someone. He's a funny little dude!

Tonight we are going to pick up our new van! Yes, I said van and we are ok with it! There really is nothing else out there that is economical and easy and fits 8 passengers. We ended up going with a 2011 and feel that we got a fair deal if not a good one. We got $1100 more for the Mazda at Carmax than we ever thought we would so we jumped on that quickly. I looked around and compared prices and actually got some help from the bank in negotiating the price on this car plus a good apr. We can get 3 large carseats across the middle row and still have room for 5 other people in the car! We can actually pick people up from the airport now and not have to leave cars in the parking lot and text where to pick them up! The boys are excited. They've been having fun running around inside each time we go to talk to the dealership people. Let's hope this is a) a good idea and b) lasts a long time!

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