half way thru november?

so, november has been the official month-of-the-runny-nose. yuk. it has taken me a little over 2 weeks to make it thru my first illness of the winter. maybe it will be my first and only.. it turns out that ive traded in contant tissue-ing of my own nose for constant tissue-ing of 4 or 5 little noses. grace, james and gracyn have dad the runniest noses ever. korb and maddie havent been so bad.. but they definitely dont like all the cleaning. it hasnt really slowed anyone down. our days have still been busy and messy and fun. we have named 10AM-11AM book time. and they love it. they take turns sitting in my lap. and they love reading books that are familiar. when we read a new book, we have to read it for a couple of days in a row. i dare you to ask them what happens if you give a mouse a cookie. kennedy broke out a few christmas books for korb last night..so he shared those with his friends today. its so cute to seem them excited about story time.

we have also been talking a lot about letters.. we play with the fridge phonics all the time. and we sing ABC's a lot. and lately we have been playing with an old favorite of gracyn and korb's {was that really june 07..} - wooden block letters!

we have been talking about table manners too. i know they are only toddlers. the oldest only 26 months. but we cant start too early right? nothing major.. just keeping our food on our tables. :)

and in baby news.. GRACE is crawling! and pulling up! babies grow up too fast! and JAMES.. well i think everyone has seen what he is up to. CLIMBING. i think ive told him to SIT DOWN in the rocking chair about 1000 times in the last two weeks. gracyn and maddie have actually taken over now.. they tell him all the time too. CUTE little mommies.

have a great weekend guys!!