October is upon us!

Adrian

I wish we had more going on to report than days have been normal. Adrian is learning to take longer naps and eat more food, it is cool to watch him learn to work food in his mouth. He is still only rocking the two teeth, but he has drooled buckets the last two days so we might see another soon! I'm amazed at how happy he can stay playing with toys as long as everyone is around him and he hears his sisters playing in the same room. I can always tell when he is bored now and instead of trying to put him to sleep before his scheduled bedtime I just switch things up to keep him happy. I'm glad everyone sees him at his happiest and thinks I have a perfect and content baby! Honestly, he is a happy baby during daylight hours and I still only wish he slept through the night without wanting to eat 3-4 times.

Claire

The many gaps in her mouth still throw me off sometimes, but she is down 4 teeth all at once! I wouldn't believe her struggle to eat food if it wasn't pizza she was having problems with yesterday, luckily she has been so mature about finishing new foods. Makes me hope that Shay will one day be just as open about eating food I make for the family. Unfortunately, they have had more issues on the bus and have now been suspended twice from riding. I'm very lucky I can take them and pick them up because I'm not sure they are learning their lesson by grounding them. Hopefully, this week will be better or I can find a way to teach them to behave when I'm not around to remind them. We had some bird visitors one day which was so exciting because they kept playing in our sprinklers and flying around. Then I saw they pooped all over my fence...yay.

Shay

This goofy girl continues to make me laugh, we got their school pictures and I just love the joy on her face when I opened it up. She has had too many issues at school since the beginning and even though she got better, they started a communication log to inform me of all that goes on during the day. I think she has a habit of playing crazy when she wants attention and her crazy is not okay with kids her age. I'm hoping everything will keep getting better, at least that is what I'm praying for every day. Apparently her crazy makes adults laugh because they went to a birthday party at our neighbor's that I came late to because Adrian was napping and I was told how crazy she was. I have to keep reminding myself that she still has some growing up to do and as much as I want to treat both girls the same because they are so alike, they are still a year and a half different! They still both lasted about the same amount of time watching conferences before wanted to get back to 'kid games' and be done coloring. I got to learn from Shay's teacher at a RS activity and it was so special, made me feel very close to her.