Cute pic and some bullets . . .

Awww....(-:

(this just may be one of our last crawling pictures, more and more steps every day within the last week)

• Livia: Recent report from her caretakers in the 1 year old room at MOPS; "Well, today Livia was teaching the rest of the kids in the room how to climb up on tables. We spent the morning taking 1 year olds off tables." Yep, sounds like our #5 alright!
• William (while looking at the many volumes of toy magazines arriving daily): "I think we're going to need five Christmas trees because I'm getting LOTS of toys."
• Harrison (with the sweet naivete of youth): "Mom, could you hide my candy bag for me so none of the kids get it?" (Is he KIDDING?? That's like wrapping a big bow around a sheep and handing it over to the hungry wolf!...I did my best, that's all I can say...)
• Harrison (I think it's a good idea that we signed him up for extra math.): The other day he said: "Hey mom, I know every kid's classroom number. Listen; Matthew-1, Noah-2, Laura-3, James-4..." and he listed them all through Yareem-19...and they're not alphabetical, just random classroom numbers. The chart hangs near his desk...little bit too much time on his hands I think!
• Ben & Mom (Saturday morning, 7:15a.m., Mom groggily hobbles through T.V. room on her way to swim): Mom, "I can not believe you guys can be so wide awake this early." Ben, "I can't believe you're not." Touche, Ben, touche!
• Conferences with Ben's teacher: Teacher, "So, one day two groups had to pick a number to see which one would go first and Ben kept insisting the other group pick first." "Oh?" I said. "Well," Teacher said,"the other group ended up picking first, choose 82 and then Ben piped in that their group picks 81." "Wow," I said, "what a great strategy." "Oh, um...well," said Teacher, "I didn't like how he was pressuring the other group to pick first just to then pick one number below them." "Oh" I said (internally pretty pleased with Ben's numerical strategy). Teacher said "I made them pick again and had Ben's group pick first." "Oh" I said, "So, what did they pick?" "Ben chose 50" she said. "Wow, great strategy again" I said. "Hmmmm" she said. I'm still not quite sure what she made of that conversation...but I am still quite impressed with Ben's instinct for numerical odds.
• Lara: "Ice cream's good." "Looks like a good day for ice cream." "How 'bout ice cream?" "Do we have ice cream?" "What's for dinner, ice cream?" She'll pepper these into conversations, quite non sequitur, at least a couple times a day. And, I have reports from friends that she does it to them at school to. I think it's pretty funny. And, finally, out of the blue for the one house on the planet that doesn't have dessert much...I had ice cream ready and waiting after dinner on Friday night!

And with that I bid you adieu! That was entirely too much time spent on changing text colors and bolds! Off to take another Zicam and get some sleep. I WILL conquer this oncoming cold!