Weekend happenings ...

Not a whole lot new to report today ... so some bullets:

• Spent some time Friday and Sunday over at my folks painting ... the kids have been good about helping out with that (meaning, they play nicely, and let us work quickly).
• Saturday Amy, Dave, and the kids came up from Crystal Lake for the day. We all did the Home Depot craft, and the kids were great playing together. It made for a pretty darn relaxing day for us adults!
• We got an offer on our CA house, but I don't think anything will pan out with that. It looks like it was just someone fishing for a steal.
• Sunday we did a lot of relaxing!
• We went out to Chinese as a family on Sunday evening. I think we found only the second reasonably priced local restaurant that we'd actually recommend to someone!
• Sub point to the eating out ... we decided that Sunday evening eating out really should happen more in the late afternoon in order to maximize happy moods/good attitudes. There were no blow ups or anything, the kids just get tired early on a Sunday.
• Emma is really getting to be quite a reader. I think that on average, they take the reading at Woods slower than what we were used to in SoCal, and what I observed to some degree with our niece Sarah in Crystal Lake. But I think Emma's really starting to get the hang of it. Now if only she had more time when she wasn't quite so tired!
• Emma is also really enjoying math puzzles lately ... things like "start with your age, take away 3, double the result to get me". She's always asking me to make them up for her ... good stuff.
• Timmy continues to have a very active imagination. Whether it's playing with his imaginary friend mouse "Jack", or building robots from legos, or having the occasional nightmare at night ... I think all of that comes from his very good imagination.
• Tim is also really into listening to books on CD in his room right now. He loves to build robots and draw while he does that.
• Emma has three loose teeth currently ... she's really wanting some to fall out as she's the only one in her class that hasn't lost a tooth this school year. She's even been specifically asking for apples a lot lately, just to loosen those loose teeth faster.
• Cyndie has been very busy getting ready for the MOPS spa night which is coming up this weekend. She's pretty excited because they have lots of vendors (for facials, manicure/pedicure, massages, hair, etc) coming, which should allow all the ladies that come to be very pampered!

Have a good week all!