mamajoan

Well, mostly anyway.

The big news of the day (yesterday that is) is that Isaac's preschool is moving to a new building, two doors down from where they are now. It'll be a MUCH nicer, and bigger space -- which means they'll be opening a toddler room! Which means I have to decide asap whether to switch Ruthie over. I'm on the fence, because on the one hand it'll be a lot cheaper than what I pay now, and oh the convenience of having both kids at the same place! But on the other hand it's another transition for Ruthie, and may not be convenient any more once Isaac starts school. And they haven't even hired the toddler-room staff yet, which makes me a little nervous. What if they hire someone who sucks?

Today we went to IHOP for lunch, which was awesome. I love IHOP. I am still doing this weird not-feeling-hungry thing, although for the most part I've been forcing myself to eat at my normal eating times. Who knows what's up with that? not me.

Isaac is doing unbelievably well with his reading lately. At the doctor's office the other day for Ruthie's checkup, I picked up a random magazine and flipped to a random page where there was an ad that began, "I just feel down all of the time." (ad for an antidepressant) Isaac read that entire sentence without any help!! ZOMG. I was super-impressed and so was the doctor.

Ruthie, btw, weighed in at 26 pounds and 32 inches tall, and is perfectly healthy. She didn't get any shots, on account of the doctor not having our records from the old dr yet; but she did get blood drawn to test for a few things, and needless to say she didn't care for that at all. But as usual, she bounced back a lot faster than I did. heh.

last night Ruthie was asking for milk yet again and I said, "what about eating? don't you want something to eat?" and she went, "No something to eat! Something to drink!" That's a child who knows her mind, you better believe it.

woot.com is down at the moment, this is very sad :(

I made it to a hundred pages of Archangel Protocol and although the writing is still awful, the story is at least moderately holding my interest. I'll stick with it a bit more and see what happens. I'm also about halfway through Our Babies Ourselves, which continues to feel kind of like preaching to the choir, but has some interesting bits.

I think that's all the minutiae I have for the moment. But I haven't posted kid pix in a while, so here are a few!

At the playground in the snow