good morning

what a nice morning! weather-wise i mean. if it was truly a nice morning, i would have been able to sleep in until at least 9am. the kids had me up by 6:35.

this morning i didn't mind getting up so early...after the normal morning fog had lifted that is. the weather is cool, in fact it's 63 degrees out right now and it's partly cloudy and there's a nice breeze...and best of all, it's dry and NOT HUMID. that's the best feeling after having such muggy days last weekend.

so we had breakfast (bananas, pb toast & applesauce for the kids) and cheerios & coffee for me. after feeding cade & reese i realized that i fed them 3/4 of the BRAT diet. oops. i do that so often. probably b/c they both love bananas & applesauce. so hopefully little man doesn't get all bound up.

cade is chasing a ball around the house, throwing it & he looks like he's trying to dribble it. or maybe he's just waving at it? it's a pretty slow morning around here. rob's at work and we're just digesting.

yesterday i was so excited. reese received a postcard in the mail from her teacher! just a little note about how the teacher was eager to see her on sept 2nd. reese will be attending a speech articulation preschool program this year. it's through the local public schools but only on friday afternoons. i don't even know how much she'll get out of it, the teacher has said that most of the work will be done at home with handouts for the parents. which is fine. reese has never been in a school setting (not even daycare) before so this might give her some good prep for preschool.

i've been checking out clothes in stores, looking at what might be appropriate for her to wear to school. she'll be there about 3 hours a week so i don't know i'm so worried about it. i just have to keep in mind clothes that are easy for her to pull up & down for the toilet and no dresses w/o biking shorts on underneath.

i did buy her her first pair of levi's yesterday. size 4s are a bit big in the waist (which is fixable with the button waist that's built into them--great idea!!) and about an inch too long. so i think they'll fit fine. cade also got a pair of levi's that are just huge on him. i have to roll them 2x and they're elastic-waisted so they don't bag off him but i think they'll slide down :/ they're 18month size. but i know if i get him a 12 month size he'll outgrow that within a month. i think he just has has my short legs.

anyway, i have hopes of going to the children's museum today. i think it would be fun, we've never been (eek! we live about 20 miles away, i consider myself a bad mother that we haven't checked it out before now.) but the timing is such a hassle. cade takes a 2 hour nap in the morning, he wakes up right before lunch, then naptime for reese is around 2 and cade needs at least an hour nap in the afternoon sometime. maybe i should plan an early lunch and head out after that. if we only spend about 90 minutes there and head home, maybe reese can catch a snooze on the way home.

and we're close enough that we could become members and go WHENEVER WE WANT TO. :b for some reason i always think that we have to do the whole thing in one visit. off to go check out the website...