Playing Catch-up!

I didn't realize it had been so long since my last post. We have been busy trying to get back into the swing of things. Emma welcomed the opportunity to return to dance and school after what she felt like was far too long of a break! She loves school and dance and is very eager to learn. Yesterday my friend brought me a flyer with the dates of Kindergarten registration! It made my stomach churn. In some ways I am very excited to have Emma go to school, but it makes me so nervous too! So, at the end of this month my baby girl will be registered to go to Kindergarten! I still haven't decided about the whole riding the bus thing. Emma really wants to ride the bus to school. I was completely against it, but as I start talking to people who's kids ride the bus they say it's no big deal. It would be convenient...it picks up at the park right by our house. It just scares me to send my 5 year old on a school bus with older kids and hope that she finds her way! I know I am totally being the overly paranoid mom right now, but I have a right to that! :)
Derrick was playing "sweet boy" for a couple weeks and now is back to his usual self! For a while there I thought maybe he was changing! But then he turned back into a 2 year old boy! (And we still love him!) He is doing so great wearing his big boy underwear! It has been about 3 weeks now and we have only had one little accident. He looks so cute in them! He picked out Lightning McQueen, Thomas the Train and Handy Manny. Thomas is his new favorite thing! He still loves his cars , but is showing more interest in trains now. He also loves watching the motorcycle races (Supercross) on tv with his dad. Derrick has decided that it is really fun to get up at 6:30 am this past week! I keep trying to bribe him to stay in bed until it is light outside. He doesn't get it! I will continue to work on that with him and hope that it is just a phase! A cute thing that Derrick did a couple weeks ago...I asked him to go put his pants in the dirty clothes. This is nothing new for him. He knows where his clothes hamper is and regularly puts his dirty clothes in there. But when he was taking a while I walked down the hall to see what he was doing. There he was in the laundry room trying to put his pants in the washing machine! Smart little guy...he knows that is where the clothes get washed so I guess he thought he would help me out! I had to take a picture because it made me laugh!
We are doing great and are very happy to finally be over all of our nasty sickness! February and March are usually our sick months of the year, so we hope we don't go through it all again! So far we are off to a good start. 2009 holds a lot of exciting possibilities for us and we are grateful for our blessings everyday!

This is Derrick's mischievous look!