Sometimes, after a day of battling the children and feeling like you just aren’t sure whether or not you’ve “won”…a sweet moment like this happens. Trey loves his May-May. The kids love the Veggie Tales Larry’s Silly Songs dvd (thanks, Nana) and want it played whenever they get a chance to watch a movie. The songs are catchy but I seriously find myself humming them in the car, when the kids are listening to a book on cd and I’m up driving in almost silence. Let me reword that…when there’s nobody fighting about toys or who’s touching them or Trey screaming “No Junie B Jones, want Lightning McQueen!”, that’s when I get some quiet driving time and those damn Veggie Tales songs creep into my head. There’s no escape. I’m sure my folks thought the same about my music in the 80’s!

We’ve got swimming lessons today and many of you have asked how Carlos is doing in the water now that he has a new teacher. It’s GREAT…she doesn’t put up with any garbage from him. The first day he cried from the moment he got in the pool until he got out. It wasn’t sobbing, he was fine and doing everything she asked him to do, just cried while he did it. Yesterday he started crying the minute he got to the pool, and I had to remind him that he had half an hour before his lessons even started so he might want to save the tears. He stopped immediately, amazing. I think he realized that the crying didn’t work for the lessons, though, and got in the pool with no fuss and had a good lesson. We’ll see how it goes today.

On the speech front…as many of you have also asked about (notice a pattern here!?!? Carlos doesn’t like change!) We had speech with Julia again yesterday and she tried a new approach. She took Carlos to play for the 30 minutes, no work, just play, to win him over. They had fun in the sandbox and burying his hands and was excited about it. When she asked him if he wanted to come back next week he said, “no”. I kept trying to remind him of the fun he just had and he still said “no”. He’s not easily won over, this boy.

We’ve got swimming today, then I’ll have to do an attitude check and see if the kids are all up for more fun…and maybe enjoy this sunny day and head to the Point Defiance Zoo. We haven’t been all summer and they love it, but we’ll have to see. Wish me luck…four toddlers at the zoo! I’m sure I’ll have plenty to blog about tonight and I may even try to get a picture or two.