1. Both girls will be getting glasses. A very soon (we’ve ordered her some) and E hopefully soon but it will depend on how long it takes until we can convince her that she won’t die if the eye doctor puts drops in her eyes. :-) We were at the eye doctor today and the doc thinks it would be good for them both to have glasses now that they are in grade 1. Last year, their eyes weren’t perfect, but really what do you learn in kindergarten anyhow. So we decided to give it a year and see what happened. :-)
2. We are going to Disneyworld again in October. DoT has another conference there and my friend Cathy convinced me to look into whether or not we could get cheap flights. (Thanks, Cathy!) Tonight I booked flights for the kids and I to go the same days DoT goes. Now I just need to hope and pray that when DoT’s work books his flights, he ends up on the same flights as we have. Because otherwise, I’m doomed. We leave early in the morning and have to transfer planes in either Newark or Philadelphia (I can’t remember which). Me with three kids and all our luggage hustling from one plane to another is not going to go well if I’m on my own.
3. School has started and everyone seems to be settling in fine. B started all-day jr. kindergarten this year, and seems to love it. Although he’s only been to school 6 days and has come home wearing his back-up pants twice. I really think the problem is that he is just having so much fun he doesn’t want to be bothered with going to the bathroom. And he doesn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that he’s peed his pants at school. So, I’m not sure what to do about it. Every time he comes home after an accident I’ve talked to him and he has solemnly promised that from now on he’ll go to the bathroom when he needs to pee. But, alas, the follow-through seems to be lacking. The girls started off in separate classes again this year, but I decided my sanity was more important than their unique, individual personalities, and requested to have them moved into the same class. So now they are together in a grade 1 class (A was previously in a grade 1/2 split class), and both seem to like that.
So, that’s the updates for now. No pictures tonight, but I promise, as soon as A’s glasses arrive (we’re told it should only be a few days), I’ll put up a pic of her sporting her new look. (Not a big surprise, I’m sure, but she chose the pink glasses… even though I had her try on almost all the others first.)
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