Catching Up

I know that I haven't been very good about keeping up with this blog. I just haven't gotten around to it. That's pretty much the excuse I use for everything including why I just sent out Abera's adoption announcements, why I still have Halloween candy on my dining room table and why I haven't shopped for Thanksgiving dinner which is apparently next week. "I haven't gotten around to it" is usually followed by "I am working on it." I am satisfied if I can remember to pack Grace's show and tell item in her backpack and the laundry is mostly done. Everything else is extra and may or may not happen eventually. I can meet these low expectations of myself.

Abe continues to grow both up and out-mostly out. A parent at gymnastics called him a "chunk" this week and my heart swelled with pride. He is sort of crawling/walking and is a bit of a screamer. I just can't stand all day holding him while he pushes the buttons on the TV set. He is really bothered by my insensitivity to his developmental needs and lets me know by screaming at the top of his lungs.

Grace had a wonderful Halloween-she was Jasmine. We went trick or treating in two neighborhoods with her friend Eliza. She came home that night and counted her spoils. I put them in the dining room so Abe wouldn't get them and there they still sit. She hasn't touched them again.

Grace got a fabulous report card from her beloved kindergarten teacher Mrs. Graviett. She loves her school, gymnastics, Disney princesses and the color blue or is it vermillion this week? It's hard to keep up; I'm working on it.